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benefit, and students and everybody in the evening. A very pleasant time indeed. Two students invited themselves here to tea one eve this week. I do so wish you could step in here and enjoy a day with Mother and me once in a while. We have exchanged stoves, burn coal now. I like it better in some accounts, though I did feel badly to part with the dear open wood stove. On a little stand by the west window, we have, to enliven the scene a little, a few nice flourishing plants, Primrose, Verbena, Fuschia, Geranium, etc. O, Harrie Ely brought me a fine parcel of bulbous roots - tulips, lilies, daffeis, etc. this fall. When you were here, you gave me one day some little dark colored bean looking seeds, from Illinois, and told me the name, but I have forgotten - will you please tell it me if you recollect what I mean. I am better than when I wrote last - have to be careful - little things upset me more than they used to. We are reading ? now- have you seen it? I shall suspend my judgment till I get through - have just finished "Chalmer's life." We were quite amused