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you will. Oh how I wish that I were near to add my [[strikethrough]] might [[/strikethrough]] "mite" toward making it seem home like and cheerful to you in Canaan. Hard I know that it was not till a year from next September that Henry means to give up this house I should have deferred my visit, that I might be in Canaan for your first year. I was surprised by Ella's letter that she would sail June 10th supposing from what she had written before, that [[strikethrough]] The only [[/strikethrough]] it would not be until July, if she decided to come. I hope she got my letter, and that she decided to bring her wheel. It was impossible for me to say anything more definite then about summer plans. There had been so many things talked of. Henry thinks we will make a short trip to Holland this month. But

he never commits himself to any definite plan in advance, and we may not go at all, then I had made a sort of engagement to be with Mr Emerson for some trip and I have not the least idea when or where. I have not heard from her since a few days after I left her. But I hope Ella and I can accord on something. Every book recommends a different trip. England is so full of lovely places. I would prefer rural England, but I see Ella longs for the sea. I enjoy my hour's ride every morning. But it is very hilly about Eastbourne and by the time I have reached feather country, where the cycling would be easier it is generally time to come back to breakfast