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1895
Marblehead
way up on the rocks & how the "Saxton" wouldn't let them "carry the box down" but insisted they should drive up - "6 coaches" over the rocks. He told us how they blasted out the rocks - for cellars - & graves - & wells & things. The sky was lovely and the fresh ocean breeze - and some of the rocky summits and winding ways & funny, tiny old houses would have made fine pictures. I really wished for a camera & Alice's wasn't loaded. Perhaps she'll take it there sometime tho' and send me some prints. Before coming away (I should like to stay there a week.) we went into "Abbott Hall"
and saw the original picture "Yankee Doodle" painted in 1876. It is a very good painting - an inspired & patriotic old man with the drum - or the boy beside him & the other old fifer & the atmosphere of war & powder & patriotism & vigor. Then we went and had some soda water and just caught the trolly for Boston - riding two hours along the ocean much of the way - Thro' Swampscott & past Nahant & Point of Pines (all pretty places) and across the "fens"

1895
Marblehead
way up on the rocks & how the "Saxton" wouldn't let them "carry the box down" but insisted they should drive up - "6 coaches" over the rocks. He told us how they blasted out the rocks - for cellars - & graves - & wells & things. The sky was lovely and the fresh ocean breeze - and some of the rocky summits and winding ways & funny, tiny old houses would have made fine pictures. I really wished for a camera & Alice's wasn't loaded. Perhaps she'll take it there sometime tho' and send me some prints. Before coming away (I should like to stay there a week.) we went into "Abbott Hall"
and saw the original picture "Yankee Doodle" painted in 1876. It is a very good painting - an inspired & patriotic old man with the drum - or the boy beside him & the other old fifer & the atmosphere of war & powder & patriotism & vigor. Then we went and had some soda water and just caught the trolly for Boston - riding two hours along the ocean much of the way - Thro' Swampscott & past Nahant & Point of Pines (all pretty places) and across the "fens"

1895
Marblehead
way up on the rocks & how the "Saxton" wouldn't let them "carry the box down" but insisted they should drive up - "6 coaches" over the rocks. He told us how they blasted out the rocks - for cellars - & graves - & wells & things. The sky was lovely and the fresh ocean breeze - and some of the rocky summits and winding ways & funny, tiny old houses would have made fine pictures. I really wished for a camera & Alice's wasn't loaded. Perhaps she'll take it there sometime tho' and send me some prints. Before coming away (I should like to stay there a week.) we went into "Abbott Hall"
and saw the original picture "Yankee Doodle" painted in 1876. It is a very good painting - an inspired & patriotic old man with the drum - or the boy beside him & the other old fifer & the atmosphere of war & powder & patriotism & vigor. Then we went and had some soda water and just caught the trolly for Boston - riding two hours along the ocean much of the way - Thro' Swampscott & past Nahant & Point of Pines (all pretty places) and across the "fens"
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