468 Ho, c Street, 
Providence, K.I, 
Sept. 19, 19C9 
He: t ' emald 
I reached Home Yriday evc-nirp fron a vacation in 
the Kennebec Valley. Your letter reached 'me just as I was atari; 
in'- for the depot on Sept. 2. I hastily ylanced thronyh it in 
order to "et an idea of its substance and, as I thought, thrust 
it into my rochet to answer in Haire, but could not find it when 
I pot ready to reply. Hence the delay. 
Am "lad all of you had such a fine summer. I should liked 
to have boon vrith you. 
I know I should hav enjoyed that wore 
than the trip 
in this reopen 
of a year am, 
In reyard t 
I have taken, alt hour -h I have no complaint to make 
t. My summer has been, in peroral, a repetition 
thouph differing in detail, 
o the labels, 7 as: afraid you will need them lory 
before I shall have an opportunity to yet them out, judriry from 
n r o s o r. t c or. d i fc i on s. 
Colleye opens this week and I have many 
accumulated matters that rood immediate attention. I woi 
advise you not to wait for me, as rr.y time is uncertain. If it so 
happens that you have done nothin'-- about the labels by the niyht 
of the first Club meeting I may be able to say sor.ethir.r -;oro 
definite, one way or the other, ir. re yard to the natter 
■:Ty regards to IZr s. Kernald and Catharine, 
Very truly, 
hid you hear that Hr. ' ho rnberiair ! n scot her died at Cumberland 
Center, ’c . ,last Tuesday'; 
