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HOTEL BELLEVUE BEACON STREET, BEACON HILL BOSTON
Oct: 20: 24
My dearest wee Mother
We were delighted to get your last kind letter & Nan's & one from John. I hope the blind pony did him no harm. You will be all settled at Peebles by this time. I wrote you last on the eve of my War Memorial address. I spoke in a huge gymnasium, not with any great comfort, to a very large audience, & I think I got on all right. The Bishop of Massachusetts said it was the finest address he had listened to, and it certainly solemnized them. On Friday we were taken to Plymouth Rock & some old New England houses. There was a big dinner party that night, & on Saturday we went to the Roger
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Merrimans' at Harvard. I was taken to my first American football match - a gory scene. That night there was a dinner party of Harvard dignitaries, including the President. On Sunday we motored to Groton, the great school, and I went to chapel with the boys & had to disperse my autograph freely. In the evening another dinner party of young men.
To day has been a heavy day. I was shown over Harvard in the morning, lunched in the Faculty, [was] the was entertained at the fashionable undergraduates' club, & finally at 4.30 addressed a crowded audience in Boston - so packed that about half couldn't get in. Susie says I did well, and it was certainly an inspiring
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occasion. The American whom you went to the Trossachs with came to see me afterwards. To night we are dining with old Mrs Page, & to-morrow we leave for Canada. We are both sorry to go, for I never met so many kind, good people. There is a curious fineness & goodness about the New Englander, - the Puritan tradition, I suppose. Nan simply must come here. We found many readers of her books, & a few lectures by her would ensure her American sales. People here would simply adore her.
Susie & I are both very well I am amazingly
