not bring many things with me. There are two Newbury port girls here, one of whom (Lottie Johnson) I used to know, & she has been too kind to me for anything. She has taken me around, introduced me to people, made me perfectly welcome to her room at all times, & been a great comfort to me. Oh, & by the way, a sister of Ed Botsford is here. Isn't that funny? She is a queer little thing, with pretty eyes & quite bright. She has patronized me quite extensively. called on me, in fact, to quite a [borous?] extent, invited me to join ^ a party who were going on an expedition for leaves; etc. etc. She has been here three years. Ed, she tells me, is studying Law in Rochester. Isn't it odd how people turn up in this world? I sit at table next a girl who knows my old chum, well, & there is a teacher here who was an intimate friend of Nettie Mooney. Do you remember that Frank Kellogg that we met at Saratoga a long