Barton Vt.     June. 18-1953 Dearest Family,  Here it is Thursday and the few moments I have had to sit down and write. I have been awake since four this morning  Miles came in our the train from Boston and we talked instead of us trying [to] go back to sleep. He went to New Haulce with the golf team you know  did very well and had a wonderful time.  I do want to tell you all about out trip so I am going to start at the very beginning. We left Jville at 5 a.m.  had breakfast in our favorite little hotel in Perrey  lunch in Athens and spend the night in Ashville.    Monday  we left Ashville at 10 a.m. had lived at another of our per spots the Virginia House  is is a ba hauce made in a green house  very charming   2 and delicious food  It is near Marion Va.  spend the night in Roanoke where we stuffed ourselves with lobsters at Archies  We had air-conditioning and television in our motel which we enjoyed thoroughly.    Tuesday  Left Roanoke at Tue  Had breakfast at the Natural Bridge  That was the hottest deep drive up the Shenandoah we have ever had  We spend the night in Hagerstown Md. in all of the most luxurious Motels we have ever stayed in. Johnnie & I took the room with the television and at twelve the announcer followed up the Worcester towards story with It then hopped over to Exeles and demolished the Country Club. We were worried to death because we knew Miles might very well have been there. So  though it was midnight Miles called Mr. Daft (Miles advisor) and he said Miles was in class at the time it struck  about 5 oclock.   3 Wednesday  We left Hagerstown at two and spend the night near the George Washington bridge  just across from New York. Thursday  We started out at two and drove over thru beautiful Parlsevaigs to Sudheery Mass. I loved our evening there  We went Longfellows Wayside elms and I got a tremendous kick out of it. It has been an Inn since 1650 and was was bought by Henry Ford and presented to the town. as a matter of fact it is in the Country and charming. Has been bid  nosells  two lovely ball-rooms and of course tap rooms, dining-rooms, living rooms, etc.  all furnished with beautiful antiques. I loved the tiny cozy dining-room where Laffyette and Washington dined. You would have enjoyed it as much as I did! Friday  We left at at two and arrived at Rye Beach  the Drake Hotel  at 12.   4 As soon as we unpacked we drove into Exeter (10 miles) and picked up Miles fr lunch. While he rehearsed in the afternoon we showed Johnnie around and his eyes bugged. I dont think he had any idea it was so large. Then we picked up Mr. & Mrs. Kerevieves  they were wonderful to niece his first year, and took them to the Jamsus Warrens at Kittery Maine fr lobsters. They were charming. After we returned there we parked by the ocean and chatted fr ages.    Saturday  We spend the first part of morning helping Miles pack. I wish you could have seen the bulging auction  including ours! Then the four of us play golf and believe us it was no under statement to say the club was demolished! However nothing was as bad as the Worcester area we drove thru  it was dreadful.Thank goodness   5 it occurred Tuesday instead of Thursday as it would have caught us   After golf we had lunch at Keert[s]z then rushed over to the beach to change our clothes  Class Day was held in the gym at three and it was wonderful. We would directly gave there to the Saltonshall tea which was held on his huge lawn. These we had discovers at the after which we went to the dance in the gym  even Hank & I  Johnnie to the movies  which I think he enjoyed more than anything in Exeter  the addresses were a little tiring to a youngster!    Sunday  we went to the Seresser delivered by Mr. Saltonstall in Exeters lovely Church  all yours fr the academy. It was an excellent sermon that was followed by the Cum Laude luncheon fr the honor boys and their Fathers. That have Hank a   6 big kick  said the only way he ever made it was thru Miles! Johnnie & I ate at the Inn and went three the old Garrison House. It was originally an old Indian fort built in 1650 and made into a house in the 1700s  Very interesting. at three we gained Hank & Miles and went to the gym fr the graduation exercises. After the exercises  I have as Lawond addressed there  they go out and gave a huge circle on the lawn where they are presented with their diplomas, the circle becoming smaller & smaller It is quite a sight.  Miles then went to his room to do a little packing fr his New Haven trip and Hank Johnnie & I went to the movies. They had Young Bess and the Coronation pictures and we were disappointed in both. We then picked up Miles and drove to Warrens fr   7 a farewell lobster dinner.     Monday. Miles left with the golf team and we drove to Barton arriving about four.    Tuesday and Wednesday were spent getting settled and breaking in the new girl  who is excellent. And now after being up since four I am on the weary side. Will you keep this letter in case we would to refresh our memories on the trip.  I am enclosing your check. I am so glad you are well  do keep that way because I love you dearly.   Devotedly     Hazel. P.S. Hank is out teaching Miles to drive the new car which is a beauty!   The Exeter Inn Exeter New Hampshire    Thursday Dearest Family   We have had the most delightful trip down on over here and I want to tell you about it while I have a spare moment. We (Miles, Sandy, Hank & I) left Barton at 8 oclock Wed. morning and arrived here at two. It was a perfectly   beautiful drive thru the White Mountains   thru Franconia Notch and past the Old Man of the Mountain which the boys had never seene. He brought Sandy so he could conduct us thru Exeter. This he did in the afternoon and I was surprised to find the academy so beautiful. The buildings are brick with white columns and all ivy-covered. The campus is green and lined with lovely trees  and the houses are lovely old   white ones  Front St. is so pretty with its old houses and churches, the town was founded in 1648 and the school in 1740. The tiny white original building is now the Deans house. Miles is crazy about it too and can hardly wait to enter!  We are staying at The Exeter Inn and had a nice dinner here last night. Then the boys went to the movies and H & I drove over to Hampton Beach  which is only twenty miles away.      We had a appointment at 9:30 this morning with Mr. Rounds  he was very nice and told Miles year to keep up the good world and there would be [s]no doubt  about his getting in. Then we took a beautiful drive along the ocean and had lunch at Potsmania Maine a wonderful sea-food affair with stewed clams and Maine lobsters. We went to the big navy boat there as Miles was anxious to see a submarine but the boat is   The Exeter Inn Exeter New Hampshire closed to the public on account of the Korean war-fare  and I think they are very wise. To-night we are trying out a place Sandy likes ([???] fr its [???]) and seeing more of the surrounding country It is flat and hot here  only 50 miles from Bareton.  I wish now we had brought Johnnie  he said he had rather stay on the farm   so we took him up to New York Tuesday and will pick him up Friday night. We plan to leave here after breakfast and have dinner in Barton Friday. I wouldnt take anything fr seeing where Miles is going to be  and I do wish you two could see it also. I taught seven cards which I will send when I get home and get an envelope large enough to put them in.  I am enclosing a letter from Kathryn, which   I thought you might like to read  though you probably have one just like it. I am so sorry poor Aunt Blanche is having such a time  I still think it could have been better if she could have quietly slipped away. Would it be possible fr Aunt Rosa to run down fr a week or so  I know she would be glad to see her and Katheryn is very fond of her too.    Must close now as they are ready fr dinner.    Worlds of love,      Hazel     Saturday Dearest Family   Here we are in N. Y. Arrived Tuesday. Had a lovely drive down and Ida had 33 all ready fr us. You dont know how nice it is to be back here again  I just love this old place and its so pretty now with its new floors. Hank couldnt find anything in Barton and I am really tickled as I had much rather live down here where my friends are. And its so wonderful to have a place like this too live in  and we are both awfully happy here because its the first time since we were married that we have really lived alone. Ve have either been travelling or with relatives.    Ida is so nice and such a loyal old thing  its certainly refreshing to have a servant like that in these times. She is coming every Tuesday and Friday to clean and cook dinner   and we will have all our company on those nights. Hank & E came over last night and afterwards we went to the opening of the Rodeo in Madison Square Garden. It was good but couldnt compare with the ones we saw in Arizona and Wyoming. To see those smart little cow-ponies made us both crazy to ride again. Havent had any desire to rise an Eastern horse.    We drove out to see Babe yesterday. She looked badly and I think she just needed cheering up. She and Carrowey are coming in to have dinner and spend the night with us some time soon. Babe hasnt been to N.Y. since she came to my wedding! They are having quite a hard time  in fact all the couples we know here are having quite a struggle. Hank [???] loses his job in January and they have a [???] of $350 a month on that East side apartment. I certainly with Hank didn;t have to pay $90 a month fr his room fr another year! At least we have a place here and I think we are mighty lucky. Hank doesnt care   2 much what work he does as he sas he is only going to work fr three or four years  then he expects to have his freedom and quit!!! The fortune is not to come from his earning but from investments. He is putting every spare penny into them all the time. When the market goes down again as it will do after election we are going to buy some more  at least he is!    He is a funny kid  Ida has a chance here to go into a new branch of the National City Bank as Assistant Manager  and guess where he wants to work  Macys! I admit that advancement is rapid and the pay wonderful  I mean fr executive positions  but ney  its such hard work! For those positions they take only college-bred men and they have to pass three rigid intelligence tests, and they start you right at the bottom. A friend of Hanks left the brockerage business and went there just a year ago. They started him out behind   the razor counter and now he is assis. buyer in the rug dept. and gets $6 ovr a year. If you are worth it they certainly push you ahead. However Hank has never had to knuckle down to it and I think he would get awfully sick of it. Just so he gets something to keep him occupied  his salary would be just that much extra to invest. However  I have learned that everyone must work out their own life!    Now, about the house. I am glad the mattress is there and hope its in a comfortable are  (Your letter has just arrived)  Thanks for the information about Betty! Now about the taxes  if you can save June I am going to send $150 fr the tax next month so there will be enough. About the linoleum  have the man who is painting the house or someone  measure the kitchen & bathroom. If you tell me what size they are I will go down to Macys and have something pretty shipped down  It is so cheap up here   3 I am sure it wont cost as much to ship as to buy in Lville. Let me know if your received the curtains  I think the furniture  if the walls are green  will be nicer white or cream color as they were. The kitchen will look weet wont it? When you get your stane dont forget to have that special meter fr electrical appearances put in  it will save you lots of money. Dont forget to send me the measurements so I can fix up the floors. I am not surprised there were lots of repair. When we get it in good order this time we will try to keep it that way. Have everything fixed  I will see that you have enough money. I am glad the house is at least going to be white  are you [???] green fr the lattice work? Now about the roof. Be sure and answer these questions so I can tell you what to do. Is our roof tin? Has it even bee painted? If not  how much would it cost and what color could they use? I dont like black. Every roof should be painted to protect it from getting leaks. They have   special roof paint you know, that has lots more lead in it than house paint. Be sure and take all money fr freight  installing etc. fr the stone and of the tax. While we are on the kitchen  do the walls need calsomining  With everything fresh they may look dirty. If so let me know how much it would be. How are the other walls? I love the coming old-fashioned wall  paper they use now and day would love to fix up the bed- rooms.    Mother  I am so sorry your back is still troubling you. Its a perfect shame  do take good care of yourself.    I meant to tell you before. Why dont you unpack to Navajo rugs and use them? They probably would go very well in the bed-rooms and you could use them in the halls. You cant possibly hurt them and the more they are used the nicer they become because the [???] wears off. And they are awfully easy to clean. Use them  goodness knows when we will. Loads & loads of love. Devotedly,  Hazel      1230 PM    VT. 19. Mrs. E. H. Beamer  124 North Lane St.   Thomasville    Georgia   From H. Cutler Part St. Barton  Vermont      Barton Vt.    June 19 - 47 Dearest Family,  First of all I am enclosing your check. I was so glad to get such a nice [???] letter and thanks a lot fr the things you have forwarded. I am sorry little Nicky is grieving but I am rather glad he is sleeping at 327  It will scare away any potential robber! However I expect   2 he will realize soon we have gone fr the summer and sleep at your house.    It is rainy and cold here. Everyone says it has rained fr weeks and every one still wears winter coats. However the boys are having a wonderful time with their gang. Hank came down with grippe the day we arrived (Tuesday) and is still in bed  so he missed his direction meeting after all. I [???] he feels miserable all Tuesday when he let me   3 drive most of the way from New York  here. We were by N.Y. after all on account of the floods in Reedland. Our little girl  Dolores Perry doesnt know much about cooking but she is a darling and very willing and anxious to learn. The whole point is do I know enough to teach her!    We had the loveliest trip up we have ever had and if the rest of the summer is a bore it will almost be worth it.    Ass you know  we left June 11 at 8:20  Our first   stop was the Magic Hill which wasnt very magic or even much of a hill! We drove thru Atlanta and had lunch on the outsides. We spent the first night at a nice Inn  Walasige  in the north Georgia mountains 3100 ft. up!  June 12. Thursday we left Walasige (I turned over the entire bottle of ink  so bought a new one of washable   hence the change in color!) Well  we left at 9:30  had a beautiful day and a beautiful drive over the Smokies    5  had lunch down in Gatlinger afterwards we drove up again to Clingmare Down where we ran across a mother bear and two cute cubs  to the boys delight. We had come prepared with boxes of graham crackers and you should have seen the mob taking pictures while the boys fed them! Then we drove thru the Cherokee Indian Reservation (where we took snaps of the boys with a cute little Indian boy) to Ashville  then up too the beginning of the Blue   6 Ridge Pathway to Little Switzerland. It is simply magnificent around there  fr continuous magnificence we think it ahead of the Smokies. We stayed over at the Big Lymn it was so lovely. We had our own cabin with 2 bed-rooms and aquising bath and the food in the little restaurant and recreation hall as excellent.  our alternater registered from 4000 & 6000 all day. Friday  June 13  after breakfast we took a drive down the mountain   7 to Marion  over to Spruce Pine and the miles of unfinished Parkway toward Ashville  Simply gorgeous Venue. Spent the night again at our cabin. Saturday  June  14  We left at nine and drove over the Blue Ridge Parkway and Skyland to Roanoke where we had lunch. We drove our longest drive to-day  over 400 miles on curving mountain roads  I dont see how Hank did it. We had driven at a nice   Inn on the Parkway and spend the night at Skyland. Our cottage there was the most wonderful  super our we will ever have in our lives! It belongs to the man who owns the whole thing and they never rent it unless they have too. We were delighted they let us in  It was beautifully built  painted throughout  completely equipped with kitchen  3 master bed-rooms furnace and a living room that was just out of this world. At our end was a huge stone fire-place and [afterwards] across the   9 other was a tremendous plate glass window overlooking the Shenandoah Valley. The town of Luray sparkled like a needle on diamonds  the cottage itself was right on the edge of the mountain. As tired as we were we sat fr hours casing out of the windows. It [was] like Hitter Bereht[e]sgaden never have been. I would loved to have stayed there the rest of the summer.  I frgot to say that we stopped in Letington long enough to show the boys [???]   and Washington & Lee  the Museum where Lees [???] statue is  and the skeleton of Traveller. Sunday June 12: Left Skyland at nine and had a beautiful day to complete our Skyline drive  and thru all three lovely historical country to Gettysbur Here  to my surprise and great pleasure Hank decided to lay over and we really did the Battlefield as I have always wanted to do it. He got a guide and   took a 2 hour tour. Then we went to the aquarium and then to the fairly new electrical map which was simply thrilling. It recreates in lights all the battles and the man who operates and lectures was excelled. We hope too do that one thing again this fall we loved it so! How I longed fr you  you would have loved it. We had dinner finally at the Peace Sight Inn  near the Monument Roosevelt dedicated. Spent the night in cabins treated   practically in the middle of Picketts change  and I could hardly sleep fr thinking of it! Monday June  16  We left at two. Had lunch in Harrisburg and reached N.Y. at 4. Stayed at our favorite little 70 Park and after a hasty trip  by request of the boys to [???] 10x Stores  and a nice dinner we had a cozy view with Hank & E.  after Skyland and Gettysburg the red of the [???] was bound to be all anti-climax.   13 Tuesday  June 17  Left N.Y. at 10  Had lunch at crummy old Wiggins Janeree in North Hampton. Dinner near Hardees and drove into a beach desolate Barton at 8:30. Hank & I by that time were both suffering from a case of direction. I knew it  and that I would not recover until Palm Day. But Hank called his grippe and as I say I did most of the driving. Every time I began to feel proud   of the way I was negotiating those mountain curves (at 40  45 which H insisted on so we wouldnt lose time!) H would rewark from the back seat  You know how sick I must be to let you drive!!!    Anyhow  he took to his bed  ruined the directors meeting  which I think was the main reason fr taking to his bed and there he is to this day! Dr. Buch called (by request from H) t-day  found no fever and left pills   as big as billiard balls. H took our look at these and sent me out fr anchovies & beer  Having taken these instead of the pills he feels much better to-night and I believe will recover.     I have just called the boys in and counted a record crowd fr the gang on our lawn  31!!!    Please tell Aunt Rosa again how much we did enjoy her candy. Let her & Jean read this log if Jean   think it would interest them and please keep it fr me as Miles wants to write up parts of the trip in next years school competitions and I will never remember all the details.  Worlds of love to both of you from all of us ~ Devotedly   Hazel.      Wednesday Dearest Family   I am so tired to-night I probably cant write a decent letter. It has been very hot here to-day and the kids and I went on a taste this afternoon. We rose down to the Battery on the E which they adore then took a ride to Staten Island. I have such a good time with them. They are looking so well now and have gained back all their lost weight. I am gaining too  all back to 102.    I am so sorry to hear of the accident Carlisles boy had. Thank you very much fr telling me. I will drop her a note to-night. I am also sending Mrs. Bessie a belated birthday card. She was my Sunday   school teacher fr years and I was very fond of her. I wonder why they wrote it up at such great length before it happened  it sounded lovely.    Hank & I are going up next Tuesday and they are taking Miles along. He is delighted as he will visit his grandparents fr two weeks before we arrive. Hazel B. will do some fishing  they return Sunday. We go up Sunday June 8th. We plan to drive and Arin is going with us and will remain until the Bynhemers calls  probably around July 15. Then Arin will take her vacation and we will get two local girls. I cant realize the winter has gone  it passed so quickly even though it was a hard one fr us.    Val has been in fr a couple of meals and last night we gave a really nice dinner party. I had lots of flowers and all my pretty china and silver and everything   2 looked lovely. I gave them cold couso[???] (green turtle) turkey- dressing, cranberry sauce, wild rice, asparagus, sliced tomatoes, lemon ice with creme-de-menthe and coffee in the living room. Dr. and Mrs. Hurd (she was a Welbely girl) Dr Hurd and Miss Nace. Everyone seemed to have a grand time and they all called to-day to tell me so which I thought was very sweet. It is our last dinner this season. From now on Ill begin to polish the silver ate, and put it away. I really miss our entertaining during the summer. Dinner at night  and  then is unheard of. However I do enjoy the bridge games and swimming and the lovely country.    Must close now and write Miss Bessie and Caroline.  Words of love to my darling family  Devotedly,    Hazel.      New York. 11. 9    NW. 4. 1937. Dearest Family,  I am not waiting until next week to send the check because this was such an exciting day I want to tell you about it. President Roosevelt had lunch at his town house and living next door we had a fx seat. It was really thrilling! We suspected he might be coming because when I went out fr groceries at nine there were a half a dozen cops in front of his home instead of the usual one. Feauh  the elevator man  told me he was expected between ten and one. Of course every minute it grew more and more exciting  cops around by the scores  and news-reel and cameramen and private detectives. Hay was coming fr lunch but when she arrived I had only set the table! I couldnt bear to leave the window fr fear I would miss him! They cleared the entire beach of cars & people  of course   crowds collected on the corners of Madison and Park. For a long time previous to his arrival no one was allowed in the beach unless they lived here  and then just before no one at all was allowed. When he left, Hak was among the crowd at the corner, not allowed to come home! That tickled me! Lea, the maid, altho had an awful time getting in. She was so mad about it she wouldnt deign to look out the window and watch him depart! It was thrilling to me  the beach free of policemen  mounted & motorcycle cops & loads of cameramen lined up with their flashlight. The roofs of the Beniderets house was full of policeman & every little back-yard  our dining-room looks new. The big cop on the corner of the roof nearet us never took his eyes off our window  even though we had Miles standing up in ours and must have looked harmless. Arin thought it wouldnt matter whither Miles saw him or not but to me it was important. It so seldom we know when we witness history and some   2 day when he is an old man he may enjoy remembering the day Mother lifted him to the window to see the President. He really sacrificed his dinner because I snacthed him up in the middle of it and of course it was stone cold later I thought it worth it! WHen he arrived about twenty police formed a cordon in front of his steps fr his car. Of course motor-cycles came first  then an open car with about six new on the running board  secret service men riding that way so they could jump off at the sound of a shot. They took their places in the cordan of police  each with a hand an his revolver   and many a glare at the windows. His family arrived in the first car. His mother two sons and a daughter-in-law. Then the President  and until you see him you dont realize how lame he is. They ejected his legs out first  legs in steel braces  then with the assistance of two men he stood up  and the press was allowed to take photographs. His affliction made me feel so badly I   wept until he disappeared in the house. Rest neither Ann nor Miles knew  only the fat policeman on the food. Kay arrived after the excitement  but was here fr the departure. By that time Arin and the policeman had become acquainted & he announced all the dignitaries as they arrived! La  Georgia Farelyets  It was a great help! The President left in a car with the top down and we had a grand view. He is very skilful the way he swings his large body with his poor useless legs into a car. His valet  or someone  stepped in then and put the Presidents coat on  and you should have seen the anxious look he gave the windows! I suppose all those cops were N.Y.s finest sharp-shooters that could have popped off a man as he drew, I wondered afterward what would have happened to us if someone had thrown a bomb! As a matter of fact, with all their precautions some one could get him if they really wished, I am sure I would be scared to death in a position like his  unless they adopt a   3  point of view. It was after three when he left  incorted by a motor-cycle calvacade of around forty  and Kay & I who had planned to go to the Metropolitan Marener  were so frayed with excitement we we just [?]lopped instead! I did summon up energy enough to go over and tell Dearie because I knew she would be thrilled.    My  I have written a regular epistle  and by the way, I am no longer keeping a diary, so tuck this letter away and some day I will read it to Miles and freshen his memory. Im afraid he didnt make a verty starting appearance, he stood in the window with a bib around his neck  sucking his thumb!  Worlds of love to my darling family   Devotedly,   Hazel.   Mrs. E. H. Beamer  124 N. Lous St.   Thomasville    Georgia   From,  Mrs. H. M. Cutler   Barton  VT.      Wednesday  23. Dearest Mother   I was so happy to get Mrs. Carters card and know you are getting along so beautifully. Its taken a big load off my mind. Be careful though and dont over-do it and please take a to Church. I hope Arthur has shown up by now. I planted twelve beautiful red geraniums in the window box around the front bay window yesterday and they look so pretty.  I have sent two boxes down. One small one has a school bell in it  an old-timer. If you ring that Mother  they can hear you at the Scott Hotel! The other is full of china. Will you unpack it and let us know if any is broken so we can collect damages. Just keep it at your house until I return. I   2 bought it from the girl in the next block who has a sort of antique shop. They were dirt cheap as she havent the slightest ideas of values.    We received a box from Eleanor Rust yesterday with a pair of flowered pants and a checked suit fr Johnnie. It was a wonderful wind-fall. Hope we see them this summer.    We had four beautiful days when we just arrived. Yesterday it was 87 and wound up with a big thunder-storm. To-day is rainy and cool and we will probably light the fire to-night.    We dont do much socially as you know. Played bridge with matches Cs contact club yesterday. We have played golf twice and Johnnie and I both made 46! That is very good as neither of us have ever broken 50 before!  I am enclosing checks fr $150 fr the month of July    3 Here it is Friday and I havent mailed your letter yet.    Miles came in last night for the week-end and are we fad to have him. It is wonderful to have the whole family to-gether again. He, Hank & I are going to play golf this afternoon and we are going to have a family four-square to-morrow with Johnnie. He is crazy about his job.    Mrs. Carter your nice letter came yesterday and I certainly appreciated it.  Loads of love to both of you  Devotedly    Hazel.   Mrs. E. H. Beamer  124 North Lous St.   Thomasville    Georgia   [???]m  Mrs. H. M. Cutler   Barton Vt.   Long Trail Lodge Pico Peak Rutland, Vt. A Treadway Inn   The Summer LodgeSeason June to October   The Ski ChaletSeason December to March   The LONG TRAIL LODGE, built and maintained by far- sighted members of the Green Mountain Club, is located at Pico Peak-Sherburne Pass, east of Rutland, Vt. on U.S. Route 4. Long Trail Lodge is surrounded with the grandeur of Vermonts unspoiled country side and breath-taking mountain views. Tumbling mountain streams, lakes, golf courses, riding stables and a busy shopping center are all within easy driving distance. There is no hay fever up here, and its always cool.    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I am so glad you are getting along so fine. Please read this letter to [Meas] Mrs. Carter as I will never have time to write both of you  Thank her fr locking up the silver  and for doing the sheets. And  I am sorry to say I have one more job. Poor little Johnnie carefully bought up his strong boxes and forgot the keys! There are two sets of small keys on the book-shelves behind his   2 bank counter  on the top shelf  to the right. counter [???]. Will you be kind enough to put them in a box and send them up. I cannot tell you how much we will appreciate it and I hope it is the last time we bother you this summer! Please thank Louis fr me fr seeing you to the t[??]e! I want to give you a little reserve of our trip. As you know we left on Thursday June 10. at 5:30. Had breakfast in Perry at their  most attractive Hotel  Lunch in Athens  and spent the night in our favorite Motel just beyond Ashville. June. 11th  We left Ashville at 9  ate lunch in another pit spot  Mrs. Carter would love it  a conservatory made into a tea-room  just outside Marion Va.  Spent the night at a Motel near Roanoke and of course ate dinner at Archies  the famous lobster house. Sat. June. 12. We left Roanoke at 8:30. Had breakfast at 9:30 near Natural   3 Bridge  Hope you received the apple candy I sent from there [Had lunch in Reading Pa.] [*Ignore] At four we pulled into the Motel beyond Haggestown Md  ate dinner and breakfast there. June 13  Sun  are lunch near Reading Pa. Pottstown  where The Hill school is has no really nice place to stay. So we drove 12 miles there the beautiful Pennsylvania country-side and stayed at a brand new Motel  Valley Forge perched high on a Hill near the Penn. Jureyike. The sine was beautiful.  We called from there  We had a wonderful dinner at an old Inn and breakfast in an old stone Hotel dating from President Adams time. June 14  Mon. After bfast we headed fr Hill where we spent all morning  I cannot tell you how impressed all of us were  with the school and the personnel  The headmaster of was charming  an old friend of Sis Wades and Paddy Vanderbilts   4. cousin. We also like all the instructors. The school is amazing  have never seen so many advantages fr kids in a prep school. It is exactly like Exeter except 400 attend instead of 800. In some respects it has many things Exeter does not have. We were crazy about it  Johnnie also  He was really impressed and I am sure he will be very happy there! We ate lunch in Allentown Pa.  and spent the night in a Motel beyond Port Jeruis N.Y. June 15  Tues. We didnt drive far to-day. Spent the night at the Janglewood Motel near Pittsfeild as we wanted to drive around Williams College the next day. June 16  Wed  Williamstown was a beautiful town and so was Williams I am sure Johnnie will be very happy in his prep school and his college and I am so glad. After we left Williamstown we drove   5 thru Bermington Vt. and believe it or not all three of us climbed to the top of the Monument on the Battlefeild. 250 ft! Hanks legs have not recovered yet! It was a beautiful day and of course we had a magnificent view of the country. Had lunch at a Mountain View Grile near Wallington and spent the night at the best spot of all. Trails End Inn is literally built into the Mt.  around the boulders. The one in the dining-room drips water and has ferns growing on it. I am enclosing folder  We had a darling cottage perched above the Inn  very rustic  large stone fire-place in living-room and two bed-rooms. It is right on top of Mendise Mt. and I cannot tell you how beautiful it was. We had a huge fire in the evening and nearly froze in the morning.   6 June 17. We arrived in Barton about 2:30. It was the most leisurely trip we have ever taken and one of the most delightful. Since we have been here the weather has been marvellous. Clean  gorgeous  sparkling  far-seeing days that are just out of this world. We have spent all day settling down.    Tomorrow we are all taking too the peaks  and undoubtedly too Willonghley in the evening.    This is quite an epistle and very poorly written as I am weary and anxious to get to bed.    Loads and loads of love to both of you and do take good care of yourselves.   Devotedly   Hazel   Mrs. E. H. Beamer  124 North Loue St.   Thomasville    Georgia   From Mrs. H. M. Cutler Barton Vt.   Am enclosing Beulahs check fr 2 full weeks work.   Tuesday  Dearest Folks     This will be my last letter as closing up and packing will snow us under the rest of this week. We have been busy marking loads of things fr Johnnie and I am packing his trunk to-day. I cant tell you any more about coming down than in my last letter. Tell Beulah to leave breakfast stuff in the ice-box Saturday 18th  Bacon, eggs  coffee  cream  bread  Have the ice put in Saturday. I have no idea just when we will arrive  Dont write again after receiving this letter.  See you soon  Loads of Love  Hastily    Hazel.   Mrs. E. H. Beamer  124 N. Loue St.   Thomasville    Georgia   From H.M. Cutler Barton Vt.      Friday Night. Dearest Mother  I am enclosing $20 check which pays Beulah up to the first of August. Please give her my love and tell her she is the first one I am going to send a card to when I get around to buying some. I was so glad to get your letter to-day and to know you are doing so well. Just dont over-do it in the hot weather.    We have rain and fires all day except yesterday which was lovely. Snookey Carling (who I am very fond of  though years younger) and I spent the day in Newford playing golf  Had a wonderful time.    Tell Mrs. Carter I am still trying to beautify this little place   2 and went out to-day to dig up some beautiful fences to place around the little office. No one ever told me how hard they were to dig. I couldnt budge them. Finally wound up by digging up   and could hardly do that! I have geraniums in the window-boxes in the dining-room now and we look quite gay and coy. I am so glad Charlie came and planted your .    I cant get over Bruce and the piano, lots of folks want a lot dont they. Tell you the truth I dont care for it. And Blanche and Aunt Rosa get the darling Sweetheart sofas and quite frankly I think that was their share.    Hank & I arrive some time to-night. It will be nice to have them, though all of us will miss Sandy.    Did I tell you we had a   3 family foursome last Saturday. Hank and I played Miles and Johnnie and the trounced us! The Barton Golf Clubmen thad their first match last Sunday and Miles and Johnnie both played ad both won. I was specially pleased fr Johnnie as it was his first match. He is getting quite enthused about his golf now and I am so glad.    Hank & I have your [???]. Both look fine and sent lots of love. It is 65 out  quite cool. Wish we could send some down. Many thanks fr telling me about the granny boot  I am terribly sorry as it was my favorite piece.    Worlds of love to both of you.  Devotedly    Hazel.   Mrs. E. H. Beamer  124 North Loue St.   Thomasville    Georgia   From Hazel Cutler  Barton Vt.      Thursday. Dearest Mother and Louise   My thoughts to-day are very much on last year this time. I arrived in Tville a year ago to-day. I still miss darling Sallie dreadfully and I know you do too. I am sorry Ernest is still ill. I hope if he has to go it will be before we return. We are so fond of him it would just about kill us to go to his funeral.    We are still having rain and cold. I have never seen anything like it. The papers say Vermont  around Seattle Washing and Jacksonville Fla. there is this rain belt. The nest of the country seems dry and hot. The sun did come out yesterday and the golf links and the lakes were jammed! Good thing everyone took advantage of it as it is pouring again to-day.  Am enclosing Beulahs check  also  [*This pays her thru Sept. 4*]   2 How nice of Jean to bring you some jelly. Everyone is so fond of you.    About Zealena  she is so faithful and stood by all last summer you remember  So I think she should get two weeks off with full pay. Loyalty is so rare it should be appreciated and rewarded.    Miles is home fr the rest of the summer now. He took a course in American History just to get some extra credits and to be with his Sigma Chi cronies. They really just had a wonderful time. He brought an awfully nice toy home with him  Bill McArthur from Montreal. He left yesterday  they had a grand time golfing  and bowling when it rained. Miles is going up to visit him the last of August. They live in Montreal but have a summer house on a lovely lake where Bill keeps his sail boat.    Must close fr this time Devotedly Worlds of love to both of you. Hazel.   Mrs. E. H. Beamer  124 North Loue St.   Thomasville    Georgia   From H. Cutler  Barton Vt.      Friday. Dearest Mother and Louise.  Had a long letter from Jean yesterday and she agrees with everyone that you are looking better every day. You have no idea how happy it makes me. I am also so glad you two are taking in some movies. Go to every good one that comes along. We rarely even go too one here  they are so poor and so old.    Well I guess we had our good weather the first week. It is still cold  am writing in front of the fire to-day  and pors at some time every day. We squeeze in golf games when possible. To-day is a si t-in rain and the weather forecast from Montreal says it will continue thru Tuesday!    Played bridge with the Country   2 Club on Tuesday. Wednesday evening Hank & I took the Omens up to Lindsay Beach on Lake Memphragog fr dinner. We had never been there before and I think it is one of the most beautiful views on the lake. A big storm blew up just as we were leaving and the mist and clouds around the mountain tops and islands looked just like Scotland  I imagine!    You were sweet to remember Miles birthday. We expect him in some time to-night and will give him his gifts.    Hank & I are having a grand time on their trip. Sandy is now in France. He won a lottery the golf club had here. A $150 set of clubs or $75 in cash! It broke Johnnies heart not to win. However I wish some poor boy could have won it     Loads of love to both of you   Devotedly, Hazel.   Mrs. E. H. Beamer  124 North Loue St.   Thomasville    Georgia   From H. Cut[???]  Barton   Vt.      Thursday Night Dearest Mother and Louise  Enjoyed your nice letter and Louises cards so much. Also had a lovely note from darling Francis telling us how well you were looking. You have no idea how much I appreciate all of them. I intended writing Francis to-night but will have to wait as it has been a very interrupted evening and is getting very late. Hank & E came by after dinner to tell us good-bye  they leave to-morrow fr a two weeks trip to Minnesota  Then, who should drive up but Miles! Of course we are always delighted to see him.    I am so sorry you have been having such dreadfully hot weather.   2 Certainly wish you could send some up here. Except fr the beautiful warm days just after we came we are certainly having a cold, rainy summer. Have never seen such green weather  sunshiney mornings  then high winds and stormy afternoon  or Vica-Versa, and very cold  we have a roaring fire to-night and almost every night  and day! As I say  I should have brought more winter clothes! It is down around 40 most of the mornings  of course it warms up during the day  [???] there is a cold north wind like to-day.    We joined the beautiful Newport golf course  (15 miles away) and have been playing golf  weather permitting. As we are going up early with Miles in the morning must close now and get some sleep. Loads of love    Devotedly    Hazel.   Mrs. E. H. Beamer  124 N. Loue St.   Thomasville    Georgia   From Hazel Cutler  Barton   Vt.   Mrs. E. H. Beamer  124 North Loue St.   Thomasville    Georgia   From H. Cutler  Barton Vt.      Friday. Dearest Mother and Louise   Have just read your letter about how hot you were and how I wish you could send some of it up here. We are having a cold-wet spell  it is 40 to-day and we have a roaring fire. I should have brought more winter clothes! Certainly hope we get some more gorgeous days we had when we first arrived.    We had planned to play golf with our friends the Faulkners from Willoughby Lake but had to post-pone it. However they are coming in fr dinner and bridge to-night. Bridge is fine on cold rainy nights. I entertained Mother Cutlers bridge club yesterday. Had two tables and everyone seemed to enjoy it. We had a wonderful Fourth  celebrating with the boys.   2 Phil will be in Tville at that time and you can get her number from him if necessary. Then we are going to spend a night or two with Bob Haruesce in Charlottesville Va.  We will arrive home some time the week of the 20th. I will have to let you know the day later. But tell Beulah to have the house ready by then.    We have had a busy week. Monday was a gorgeous day  fr a change  and E. Helen-Maury and I spend the day in Newport playing golf. Tuesday we went to the usual bridge party  Wednesday I drove up to Canada on an errand with Hank. The Faulkners game a steak cash-out at the lake that evening which was lots of fun. Yesterday we drove down to St. Johusburg with Johnnie and outfitted him fr Hill  $300 worth!! His grandmother is giving it to him  isnt that nice of her  and quite a surprise!    Must close now and mail this  Worlds of love  Hazel.   Mrs. E. H. Beamer  124 North Loue St.   Thomasville    Georgia   From H. Cutler  Barton Vt. Dowington Penn  Telephone Valley Forg Hotel Eagle 13  4  15  8  6  947      Saturday Dearest Mother and Louise   I am enclosing your checks one of which is short. I will have to wait until I get home to transfer some more from my savings account. I am so pleased and proud of how well you have gotten along this summer, in spite of the hot weather. Real summer arrived here Aug. 25 and stayed all day. The only day I played golf in real summer clothes! Yesterday it dropped to 42 and there was a heavy frost!    We plan to leave Sept. 12 and spend the night at Port Jervis N. J.  We will be at the Valley Forge Motel Dowington Penn.  Telephone Eagle 8.5947 fr the 13th  14th and possibly the 15th. You can phone us if you need us. Then we are going to Wilington  only 75 miles away and spend one or maybe two nights with Eleanor   2 our friends at the Lake. We have three couples there we are very fond of. We drive over every lovely evening and visit with one of them. This is really beautiful country  how I wish you could see it.    Miles is at MIT but comes homes every week-end. We have a family foursome every Saturday afternoon. He and Johnnie are playing in a golf match in Newport on Sunday and I certainly hope they win again. I am terribly proud of Johnnie as this is the first time he has ever really cared.    The keys arrived  many thanks. Also many thanks fr telling me about the gray boat so we can collect insurance. Can it be mended or is it broken beyond repair? I have sent down two more Xmas gifts  an old amyethist vase and a crystal aun. Will you please check them fr us  many thanks fr the paper. I   3 would love one about the Fourth of July tournament. You have no idea how I enjoy your letters and cards.    I am sorry Aurthur has disappeared but glad you are getting results out of Charlie. I know the grass will be beautiful and can hardly wait to see it.    We have a beautiful new Buick  a Supes which we are all crazy about. It is way above our last one in every way.    Must close now and put another log on the fire before I get Johnnie. Dont forget Miles has a birthday July 22     Loads of love to both of you.   Devotedly.    Hazel.   Mrs. E. H. Beamer  124 North Loue St.   Thomasville    Georgia   From Hazel Cutler  Barton Vt.      Friday Afternoon Dearest Mother and Louise.  It actually hasnt rained to-day fr the first time in ages. It has been the worst summer fr rain and cold in 40 years! Hanks says if he didnt have to stay he would pack up and leave! We have a fire to-day  but it is wonderful to catch a glimpse of the sun. Jank & I plan to drive up to Newport to-night to see The Cruel Sea. It was a wonderful book and they say  a wonderful movie. I am glad you saw Thee High and the Mighty  I loved the book.    Went to a bridge party at a nice place near here Tuesday. Otherwise we have done nothing as it has rained too much fr golf. Many thanks fr the papers.    We did have a wonderful time      2 last Sunday. Hank & I took Roger & Johnnie over to Calbrook New Hampshire to play in the tournament there. We had a picnic lunch at a perfectly beautiful spot  a rocky chasm with a lovely waterfall in Dixville Notch. The boys won their match and we had a nice dinner at the Club afterwards.    Miles didnt go with us as he played in another tournament in Newport.    Must close now as Hank has just arrived fr supper. He and Mr. Owen have been away all day on a business trip.    Loads of love to both of you       Hazel      Saturday Dearest Mother and Mrs. Carter   After weeks of rain and cold we are having a stretch of beautiful weather. Thank goodness it came just when it did as the Fair is on fr five days and it would have ruined them if it had rained them out. We went over Wednesday night to see the Hell Drivers which are always thrilling and we plan to go Sunday to the Rodeo. They have beautiful fire-works every night which we can see from our front porch!    Miles had another awfully nice fraternity brother come up fr a visit this week and we enjoyed him immensely. This one was from Pennsylvania.    We have done nothing terribly exciting  just the regular bridge   2 party and the usual golf.    Did I tell you what a nice time we had last Sunday? Miles played in a match in Newport and Johnnie, Hank & I drove over to Colebrook New Hampshire  played golf on their lovely course, had a picnic at the beautiful water-face we discovered the week before  then drove home. It was a lovely day. Poor Hank took an awful cold and has been in bed all week. However he is fine today.    I certainly appreciated the card from Louise and have written her one. Thank you very much fr the clipping [from] about Cleare Flowers  That means another wedding present! I am terribly ashamed Miles has not thanked you and Jean. He certainly appreciated your gifts  especially yours  and plans to write. The trouble is he   never in the house long enough.    Loads of love to both of you.      Devotedly.       Hazel   Mrs. E. H. Beamer  124 N. Loue St.   Thomasville    Georgia   From Mrs. H. M. Cutler  Barton Vermont      Friday. Dearest Mother and Louise,  We are having our first beautiful day in ages. You cant imagine what a treat it is. E & I played golf this morning and it was the first time in ages we havent had to run under a tree out of a shower. The ladies are having their first championship match beginning next week  I am renning it believe it or not! Mary Riley  a summer girl from Long Island will win it but we will all have fun. She won in the big State tournament in Beulington this week.    Johnnie, Hank & I have just came back from a wonderful trip and a most interesting one. We went   2 to see the [mink] (mink) farm. The half Indian Shortslunes who runs it has 5000 beautiful sapphie and pastels. One called Breath of Spring wsa gorgeous. I had no idea they were so large  but he says in November they will be twice as big. Their pelt being $40 each. He took us thru all the sheds  the storage house (10 below zero) where they keep the fish and horse-meat they feed them and showed us his fierce Doberman Piecer dogs which guard them. They also have loads of sheep around to keep the grass short so they can find the mink when one escapes. Have never seen anything like it. Wish I had enough pelts fr a fur coat right now!    I am glad Zulena is only going to be gone fr one week.  Betty must be getting tired of her job if she   3 is having back trouble again.    Some friends of Hank & Es are at Willoughby and we played golf and had driven with them at Nelsons  a plain farmhouse with wonderful food. Earlines father (our maid) bought back a dozen lobsters from Maine last night and they were the best ones I have ever eaten  (That sounds very queer!) They had just been caught and were alive when we popped them in the pot.    I am so glad Ernest is better  I dropped Frances a card.    We are going over to Willoughby to-night as the sunset will be lovely. Loads of love to you and Louise  You will never know what it means to me to have her with you.   Devotedly     Hazel.   [Dear Grandmother and Hub]    [I am so Happy about] [the tarpon fish. How did] [you get it? It is so] [good to have steback agin]  Have only one patient  Her warning good-bye to pilat  and bring us a lot next time! Day was streaming down chuks of night of drap  one get out & pat ground, good old U.S.A. Soun 36 hrs. from battle four. wufines still torn...It off. backs broken   Crab  didnt take anything from B. Cum & didnt give anything to it!   One patuir didnt want food  or some  wanted summer. Francis sui. Bed C. Fercuibe everything but that