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1 letterhead Oct 18 1898 Dear Wanda Helen Mamma Im pretty sleepy, for it was after midnight when I went to bed last
night the bed was only a confounded stuffy jiggling bunk at the top of a sleeping or sleepless car. But this day was so crisp
bright delightful, so full of lovely wild scenery it might awaken the dead do away with sleep altogether. I stopped here on
my way from Montreal to the White Mountains all the scenery was beautiful must be beautiful all the year but robed with glorious
leaf colors as it is now nobody can half tell or even hint it. The town is finely 02486 2 situated on Lake Champlain
on high ground on the Eastern shore commanding wide views of the lake with its many islands the mountains of the Adirondacks
region, while the Green Mountains make a grand fence along the Eastern horizon. I got here about noon, had a nice dinner in
a fine clean commodious hotel in margin: 50 which you may be sure I appreciated after the squalled piggy places we had
to stop at in the southern states. Then I got a buggy drove through the pretty town the hills along the lake through the midst
of Yellow purple golden trees bushes. My If you Helen Mamma could have been with me. Tomorrow I start for Stowe thence up
Mt Mansfield. Thence I go to Mt Washington the passes and notches of the White Mountains, 02486