[Hanover—Thursday, 5 June 1873]
June 5. Hanover, N.H. Dartmouth College. We have been here already 4 days but before I begin to write of my surroundings, seductive as they are, with a wealth of June loveliness and troops of friends, I must return to the last week of May and try to set down something of our experiences.
Thursday we were to have had a picnic but we went to drive instead and saw the beautiful river and hills, the loggers and all the glory of June for the weather was perfect. There had been showers at night.
Callers in the evening.
Professors of this, that, and the other, with their wives, very bright people with clear shining eyes—the women often with no extra strength. With regard to this last there is great hope. I am not sure they are not as well as women in any part of the world only they work harder and bring greater “pressure” to their mental as well as physical powers; for our New England women are the best instructed women as well as the best housekeepers on the face of the earth.
