468 Hope Street, 
Providence, R.I. 
October 2, 1921 
Pear cousin Belie;- 
Your letter of August 14 reached me at a 
time when I could not ure my right arm and hand. I was taken 
in the latter part of July with acute rheumatism in my right 
shoulder and arm. I’or eight nights I couia not lie down. Since 
then there has been a steady improvement so that, now I am in 
pretty good condition again although I have to be very careful. 
I was very glad to hear from you and of you and your mother. 
Of course you have your particularly lonesome linos. V'& still 
have them after more than four years. 1 hope your Uncle Ben 
is much bettor by this lima. 
Ml® appears to be better tka for some time. She has to be 
crroful and not overdo. She and George may come in and have a 
room here during the severer winter months. It has not boon 
fully decided yet, Bred has been at work for several months 
running an engine in one of the big furniture stores down town. 
He aooms to be standing it bettor than wo expected. Everybody 
else about as usual. 
I recently hoard from Bel. Paine. if you neve not heard any¬ 
thing yot from John you will be interested in the brief informa¬ 
tion it contained. nertha went to the hospital for an operation 
that was not considered serious, 2he never same out from the 
influence of the ether. John had a cottage for them nearly 
completed on the chore of Sebago lake. Harold and Elinor were 
up there most of the summer. They have a housekeeper mid still 
hold the Portland house 
I think there is practically no prospect of my getting 
to Maine this season. At the time when I would like to have 
gone I was laid up with the rheumatism, and even now I am not 
sufficiently free from it to make me feel very enthusiastic 
about going away from easy re5. eh of my physician, to say nothing 
about having to make special arrangements in regard to father 
while sway- 
V'e have had a peculiar summer in many waye-considernbio 
hot and sultry weather alternating with cool October-like 
days; great weather for rheumatism 1 aw told. One day it was 
80° in the middle of the d; y, and that night or who next the 
torn -erature went down to about 48“. it has boon very dry 
llhoerely, 
