As I am alone and the folks are retiring to rest and as I am may not get a chance to write tomorrow I will improve the few present moments.

You perceive I have carried out the desire I expressed to you when last we were together. That following Wednesday morning I started at 9 o'clock with Miss- Cassedy for Boothbay Maine. Not until past six o'clock at night did we reach the house but I was not tired and I travelled Corrected: traveled 140 miles by rail and a dozen or so on a river steamer down the Sheepscott river. We stopped at a place called SouthportEditorial Note: Southport, Maine and had to be ferried a little distance then walk a mile and a half. We saw a light in the house but could not get in. a As we came unexpectedly [*]Archival Note: Brackets have been inserted at this point in the manuscript. the family had gone to a neighbors Corrected: neighbor's where we found them. I write this to let you know what scienceEditorial Note: Christian Science can do for one. [*]Archival Note: Brackets have been inserted at this point in the manuscript.

But I have passed through a strange experience the past five days have encountered some queer specimens of humanity.. Captain Kent at whose house we first stopped is an old coast pilot about sixty years old, one of those honest plain spoken Corrected: plainspoken though not blunt persons. He understands boating thoroughly and on Thursday morning took us across the Sheepscott river to WesportEditorial Note: Westport Island (formerly Westport), Maine when the wind tipped our craft on her side and the spray was thrown over us in showers. Your boy looked like an old salt with his Sou-WesterEditorial Note: Sou'wester and heavy over coat Corrected: overcoat on

But the captain though he does not appear to be more than forty-five years of age and is otherwise strong is completely mastered by error- phthyic. It seems hard that a man strong and willing to work should not know himself.

Although I remained here only two days and three nights things seemed like home. Now they are a little different- I am with an old farmer about sixty years old; but he is a fearful looking Corrected: fearful-looking object has plack Corrected: black hair and thick coarse black beard well I needen't attempt to describe his appearance. 'Tis done better in the engravings of the giants which Jack the Giant Killer slew. You have seen them in children's picture poo books He is a perfect image of the worst one you can select, and he will get drunk too. he is about as ignorant a specimen of man as one often meets For all this, you will perhaps be surprised when I tell you I enjoy myself. One can learn even from such an illiterate specimen. But the ladies here the wife and daughter make a different picture. Their company is more to be desired.

Although I seek to improeve the time and cause it to pass pleasantly where I am, yet if I should allow myself to do so how I should long to see your face and sit and talk with you; but I content my self Corrected: myself with the thought that it will not be long, for I intend to be present at the lecture next Thursday evening.