468 Hope Street, 
Providence, R.I. 
Sept. 19, 1909 
Pear Fernald:- 
I reached home Friday evening from a vacation in 
the Kennebec Talley. Your letter reached me just as I was start¬ 
ing for the depot on Sept. 2. I hastily glanced through it in 
order to get an idea of its substance and, as I thought, thrust 
it into my pocket to answer in Maine, but could not find it when 
I got ready to reply. Hence the delay. 
Am glad all of you had such a fine summer. I should liked 
to have been with you. I know I should have enjoyed that more 
than the trip I have taken, although I have no complaint to make 
in this respect. My summer has been, in general, a repetition 
of a year ago, though differing in detail. 
In regard to the labels, I am afraid you will need them long 
before I shall have an opportunity to get them out, judging from 
present conditions. College opens this week and I have many 
accumulated matters that need immediate attention. I would 
advise you not to wait for me, as my time is uncertain. If it so 
happens that you have done nothing about the labels by the night 
of the first Club meeting I may be able to say something more 
definite, one way or the other, in regard to the matter. 
My regards to Mrs. Fernald and Katharine. 
Very truly, 
Pid you hear that Mr. Chamberlain’s mother died at Cumberland 
Center, Me..last Tuesday? 
