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Cambridge to Magnolia, Mass.
1901
Aug. 1

After about three days at home, we took the
4.30 train this afternoon from Boston for
Magnolia, and came by barge to the house
here arriving about 5.45. We are at the
Oak Grove House and shall stay here
through August. The location is a
pretty one. The house faces the south west
and our room is on the south east corner
of the second floor with two windows in
front and one toward the east. The
front view is very extensive, the land
sloping to a large piece of marsh land
covered with grass and beyond gradu-
ally rising to wooded land. To the east
a large oak grove a hundred yards away
bounds the view, while to the south a
broad view of the ocean is seen, the
eye ranging over the water as far as
Marblehead. The house is kept by Mrs.
A.C. Smith. But few boarders are here
at present. Everything is scrupulously neat
and we had a very good dinner at 6 o'clock.
After dinner we strolled down to the beach,
Kettle Beach, a walk of eight minutes.
The beach is small and pretty stoney.
There are bath houses and a good deal
of bathing goes on here. We returned
home before dark. A Song Sapprano
sings continually close by our windows.
He has the richest notes I ever heard
from one of this species. ——