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Thursday
Its grown cooler since we got out of the gulf stream and there is just enough motion for you to know you are on a boat. And the trip is almost over. I suppose you would be sorry if you were here but I am terribly glad. 

We may possibly land at Cherbourg tomorrow night which would be horrid for me as I would have to sit up all night in that horrid train.

All of the party except Mr Elkins are getting off in England. We have heard not a word about the strikes as no paper is published on board and no one seems to have had a marconi. 

I wonder if you are all having a splendid time and how the trip to Little Tupper? If I could only have taken that I would have loved it I am sure. It is pretty there isn't it? 

Mr Sage had a splendid dinner 

Transcription Notes:
the writers Capital E look like a weird p (See England, Elkins) "a marconi" is a wireless telegraph (named after the inventor Guglielmo Giovanni Maria Marconi, 1st Marquis of Marconi, an electrical engineer, known for his creation of a practical radio