He says he will use a part of the money—after proper consultation with the selectmen, etc. And he suggests that a part of the money be used to take care of the triangle and the trees already planted. He will write you when he has decided where to put additional trees. And if I live through the week I will write you whether we got a '92 tree in anywhere.
Yours very much,
Mary L Dow.
Miss Baker was Secretary of the Beverly Improvement Society; these letters refer to her work.—(Editor.)
Beverly Farms, March 21, 1899
My Dear Miss Baker:
I want very much to go to Mrs. Gidding's high tea but I do not get out of school till 3.30 and the train leaves at 3.34.
But after I am graduated from a school, for good and all, I mean to go to some of the rest of these "feasts of reason and flow of soul." We are making fine progress with the wurrums and Miss Wilkins is prospering with her enterprise in Wenham.
Yours truly
Mary L. Dow.
P.S. My regards to your father. I am sorry he has been ill. I told my sub-committee that I thought, if Mr. Baker had been present when my resignation was accepted, they would have sent me some little pleasant message to remember. It seemed to me that after teaching about a century in the town they might have at least told me to go to the d——, or something of that sort.
M.L.D.