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and their nurses they might not lack any of the comfort they had in their winter home in Washington. Then we walked in the morning through some of the beauty spots of her estate, and they reminded me of Sassafras. In the afternoon we motored, and in the evening talked in interludes of beautiful music.
Mrs. Roosevelt was most anxious that I should go to Washington and we found that by leaving an hour earlier than arranged, it would be possible. So she telephoned to Washington and I arrived on the evening of the 3rd of July, and found a message to say that arrangements had been made for me to attend the Congress meeting in the morning, and view the Pageant from the President's Stand in the evening. In the afternoon a motor would call to take me into Virginia and there came a charming lady at whose home I had dinner, and she saw me to the station to catch the mid-night train to New York. A very strenuous but very interesting day.
The next morning I left for Boston and was met by Mrs. Dwyer Russell, and driven to Miss Amy Lowell's home. I had not realised who she was, but when I saw the magnificence of her home, I felt that besides there was a distinctiveness that marked it out, and was not surprised to find that she, besides being the American Poetess, was the daughter of the famous literateur, and sister of Harvard's Professor.
With only two days at my disposal there was not much time to see all that my kind hostesses had arranged, but by making the most of every minute a wonderful amount was accomplished. We saw Boston from every view point, glanced through the magnificent Library, Picture Gallery with its famous Mural decorations. Motored along the water promenade en-route to dinner at the summer house of the famous publisher Mr. Putman who is Miss Lowell's brother-in-law, and returned in the small hours of the morning.
Mrs. Dwyer Russell spoke with much affection of her happy time in Australia.