I am ia Nelsons room and i;t is a mighty comfortable one and cool.I 
like it very mach and the restaurant is very good indeed-not equal by any 
mrans to Mrs Bakers cooking but. still way beyond the average. 
I am a frectuent visitor to the island~;Last Saturday I went up with 
A.'iK. .and spent the night and Sunday,and tomorrow we repeat the trip.She spot 
grows upon one .That hillside opposite on the Virginia is one of the most 
beautiful woodlands you ever were in.Kentuqfeies and Worra*-eating Warblers are 
as common there as one could wish..By the- way I found A (^arula^s nest the 
other day with four eggs ( which was only about six feet or so from the ground. 
Ther being no moss there the bird had taken a frayed out rope which chanced 
to hang from a tree as the means of concealong the nest which simply was a 
continuation of the rope,the whole thing looking like a single piece.lt was 
a beautiful adaptation of means -go end. 
Hart goes next week and will spend the summer in California..The whole 
family goes with hinuBy the way the other evening I took Dorothy to her first 
opera and did she. not enjoy ittAs I sat therwe with her I could not help look 
ing back to the time when I left her a little girl oy two yearsold;:and there 
was I acting as her escort,her venerable old [Uncle,to the opera;and she a 
woman practically ready to be married 1 I tell you Will,you and I are getting 
old and there is no disguising it. Confound the luck! 
Robert is back.I have not had time to talk with him but shall have 
soo^as Au.Ki.and I are going out 1to see him^He had the fever down ther a 
and looks thin but well.He has not chnaged much and has not a grey hair ia 
his head.He seemed to be anfeignedly glad to*see me and it was very much like 
