
Do not think me too wilful or headstrong but I have taken our tickets & we shall sail Aug 30,
for Philadelphia. I found if I did not come to a decision now, we could
not well arrange it before next summer. And since we have to come to a decision
my mind has been quite at rest. Do not feel any anxiety or misgivings about us. I have a clear and
strong conviction I am doing what is right & best for us all.—After a busy anxious time
I am having a week or two, rest with Percy, who I find fairly well in
health & prospering in his business—indeed he bids fair to have a large private practice
as an analyst
here, & is already making income enough to marry on only there is to build the nest—&
I think he will have actually to build it, for there seem no eligible
houses—& to furnish it—so that the wedding will not be till next spring or early
summer—nevertheless with a definite goal & a definite time & the way between not so
very rugged though rather dull & lonely I think he will be pretty cheery.
This little town (of 11000 inhabitants all miners, smelters &c.) lies up among the hill 1100 ft
above the sea—glorious hills here spreading then converging, with wooded flanks & swift
brooklets leaping over stones in the hollows—the air too of course deliciously light &
pure.—I have heard through a friend of ours of Bee's fellow students
who lives in Camden (Mr. Süerkrop I think his name is) that we shall
be able to get a very comfortable house with pleasant garden there for about £55 per an : I think
I can manage that very well—so all I need is to hear of a comfortable lodging or boarding house
(the former preferred,) where we can be, avoiding hotel expenses while we hunt for the house. I have
arranged for my goods to sail a week
later than we do, so as to give us time.
Bee has obtained a very satisfactory account of the Womens Medical College in Philadelphia & introductions to the Head, &c.