%images;]> magbell-03910208 Letter from Mabel Hubbard Bell to Alexander Graham Bell, undated, with transcript: a machine-readable transcription. The Alexander Graham Bell Collection. Selected and converted. American Memory, Library of Congress.

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1998/12/19 0004

Letter from Mrs. Alexander Graham Bell to Dr. Alexander Graham Bell. Beinn Bhreagh, Victoria County, Cape Breton, N.S. (July 8, 1896) My dear Alec:

I am sorry that I didn't get my letter off yesterday. The steamer leaves at 5 A.M. on Tuesdays so the mail leaves here on Monday afternoon. I forgot until too late to write you. There isn't much to tell you anyhow that would interest you in your busy work. I wonder do you read my letters anyway? This is the last I will send to Philadelphia, happy thought. I shall be so glad to see you and Elsie, it seems ages since you left. Have you spoken of Baddeck as a desirable place of assemblage? There's no harm in asking anyway.

The weather continues cold and rainy and Day is having hard luck with her picture play, but she keeps on. Mr. McCurdy says she has used six dozen of p o l ates! She was in town all day today working with the pictures and wants to go again tomorrow, but the barometer is falling.

The lodge is getting in order for my Father and Crescent Grove is at least clean and the furnishing will begin in a day or two.

Earle Mason the young man you saw in Boston will be here the last week in July for a fortnight. I hope he will be an acquisition.

I don't think I will write any more because I am sure you won't get this, but if you do it brings you and Elsie my love.

Ever yours,