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have been hoppy here since my return.
The elder Agassiz used to mention in his lectures the Lepidoptera, and I think that's the creature (insect, I b'lieve) which infests Boston.
What I have hopped for, and whither to, I cannot in the least remember.
Flossy was here, as you know, and I hop't for her. I also 'tended two of the festival Oratorios, which were fine, but to me very fatiguing.
I find that I must take public amusements, when I do take them, in the afternoon, as in the evening bodily fatigue overmasters even the sesthetic sense, and it is not worth while to pay a large price for the pleasure of wishing one's self at home .... The benefit at Boston Museum for the Vincent Hospital netted over $1600. It was a brilliant success, but I caught there the first cold I have had since my return from the Far West.
Maud is very busy with the flower table, which she has undertaken, having nothing to do. This is for the Vincent Fair, which will take place on Tuesday, 29th.... Have got a few lovely books from Libbie's sale of the Hart collection -among other things, a fine French edition of “Les Miserables,” which I am at last glad never to have read, as I shall enjoy it, D. V., in some of the long reading days of summer....
Your ownty donty Ma.
P. S. Before the Libbie sale I wickedly bid $25 upon a small but very precious missal.
It brought $825!!When she reached Oak Glen in mid-June, she felt a “constant discouragement” ; was lonely, and missed
