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ROGERS' ROCK HOTEL
LAKE GEORGE
P.O. Rogers' Rock, N. Y.

July 31, 1896

My dear Blue Bird:
The mudder bird
has not forgotten you, never a day of
it, and many and many a thought
has flown across the miles that stretch
between and many & many a time
she has wanted to write you but could
not. When I tell you that this is the
morning of the 23rd day that I have
been here, and that this is the 38th
letter or note I have written, not counting
numerous postals &c, we will see
dearie, that my pen has been busy even
if the results have not been able to go
where I wanted to send them. I read
in the paper of the awful storm in
Pittsburg, and of the storm and other
disasters at Cleveland and, at every
mention of either of those cities, my
thoughts fly off to my "daughter" and

ROGERS' ROCK HOTEL
LAKE GEORGE
P.O. Rogers' Rock, N. Y.

July 31, 1896

My dear Blue Bird:
The mudder bird
has not forgotten you, never a day of
it, and many and many a thought
has flown across the miles that stretch
between and many & many a time
she has wanted to write you but could
not. When I tell you that this is the
morning of the 23rd day that I have
been here, and that this is the 38th
letter or note I have written, not counting
numerous postals &c, we will see
dearie, that my pen has been busy even
if the results have not been able to go
where I wanted to send them. I read
in the paper of the awful storm in
Pittsburg, and of the storm and other
disasters at Cleveland and, at every
mention of either of those cities, my
thoughts fly off to my "daughter" and