%images;]> magbell-03910209 Letter from Alexander Graham Bell to Mabel Hubbard Bell, July 13, 1896, 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 0002

ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELL TO MABEL (Hubbard) BELL Colonial Beach. July 13th, 1896. My darling:

I love you very much — but I cannot write. Philadelphia was hot but here “hot” is no word for it. Both Elsie and I are suffering from it. We will leave here Wednesday for New York.

Can't write — a mere mass of deliquescent jelly.

Your loving, Alec.