Identifier: charleseliotland01elio (find matches)
Title: Charles Eliot, landscape architect : a lover of nature and of his kind, who trained himself for a new profession, practised it happily and through it wrought much good
Year: 1902 (1900s)
Authors: Eliot, Charles W. (Charles William), 1834-1926
Subjects: Eliot, Charles, 1859-1897 Landscape architects
Publisher: Boston : Houghton Mifflin
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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Last Sunday I wrote agood long letter to Eliza, and Anna wrote one to Aunty. Weare having a splendid time, riding, walking, swimming, draw-ing, fishing, and sailing. I have seen twenty-one deer, andAnna has seen seventeen. We generally go to ride on horse-back in the evening, and almost always see one or two deer.When we get home, we unharness the horses, and ride thembare-back to the field. We have been to bathe quite often,and the waves have been splendid. Saturday they were sohigh, they went over Robs head all the time. Since CousinAnnie Drinker has been here, we have drawn a good deal.We intend to finish our sketches with Cousin Annie at NewBedford. We have a good many baskets of egg-shell whichare very pretty. We knock off the top of the egg and bindit with ribbon. We cover the egg-shell with the pith ofrushes. Annie and I have kept a daily journal, which will bevery pleasant to look over. I have a great deal more to tellyou, but I must save it for another note, because the mail
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^. .y/ ^^/^:^y:M../.yy SA:^/^ ^T. 13) JOURNEYS 13 is going now to Woods Hole. Please give my best love tothem all. Your affectionate granddaughter E. D. Peabody Grandmas birthday. In the summer of 1858 Ellen Derby Peabody and CharlesW. Eliot spent a delightful week together at Naushon asguests of Mr. and Mrs. John M. Forbes. Governor Swain,her father Mr. Peabody, and several friends who were inti-mately associated in Ellens mind with the lovely island haddied, so that sadness was mingled with the joys of this visit.In the following October, a few days before her marriage,Ellen wrote as follows to her betrothed : Am I not glad Ihave had that week at Naushon with you ? It was a strangekind of pleasure I had. It was more a pleasure of memory,I think, and the sharing with you the pleasures and the feel-ings of years now gone, than what we really did and enjoyednow. Aunt Anna, who had shared with Ellen every Nau-shon delight, helped to transmit to Charles an interest in theisland. Its holl

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