DANIEL CHESTER FRENCH 
GLENDALE J ul y 5 # 19Q8 . 
MASSACHUSETTS. 
Dear Will 
I remmber your sentiments about type-written letters , 
but as I am writing this "infcroprio mano " , I hope you won’t refuse 
to read it . 
The cherries wre fine ! They xsixstd: arrived in good oredr 
and met with universal applause and the family unite in thanks to you 
for sending them . We shall probably pass the basket along to some¬ 
one else with samples of our horticulture . We had the last of our 
strawberries yesterday , not as large as heretofore , but still a g 
great deal better than yours ! If you would just give yours the ben¬ 
efit of a little shade by letting weeds grow between them , you might 
succeed in getting as fine fruit as ours . 
I have snet the photograph of the Palmer memorial and hope 
it will reach you all right . The photographs of the place have ar¬ 
rived and I will send you prints of the two old gentlemen reclining 
on the new seat . Gosh! do I look like that ? The seat is finished 
and is the pride of my heart . I will send you a picture of it some¬ 
day . Yesterday Tom. Knight and I prospected for the new path up the 
hill back of the house and he is to begin to build it this week . I 
wanted to wait till you could be here to superintend it , but we can’t 
afford to wait at our time of life . You can add refinemnts when you 
come in the autumn . We discovered quite an easy route that takes 
in the big rocks and all the features . Tom. seemed to think that 
there would be no trouble in making it . 
We were relieved to hear that you got home without much dis¬ 
comfort , but I am sorry to hear that the trouble is pronounced to 
be sciatica . However if it consents to leave you soon I consider 
