[Letter] June 22,1889,Smith College [to F.H. Giddings]

133 June 22, 1889, Smith College.

Dear Friend,
 I want to know
how your seminar plans
are now arranging
themselves, with a view
on my part to securing
the visit together that
has been one of the chief
attractions of the vacation
to me. I have been
myself something of
a shuttle-cock of events
lately. My wife's parents
are getting old and we
feel that my wife and
the children at least
ought to see them each
year. If they cannot
come to us some of us
must go to them. It lately
appeared that they cannot
well come to us; ergo
my wife and two children
go to Minneapolis before
very long, to remain till
September. Quite lately
my mother and sister
with two children and
two servants came here for
a little visit, on the way to
the Adirondacks, where they
have leased a house for
the summer. In departing
they took my oldest boy
with them, with the
expectation that I am to
join them before long.
When I go my house will
be vacant. I do not
expect to go before about
July 4-10. Now what
are your plans? Your
friends expect you in
New England at some
time; will it naturally be
in the early part of the
vacation or in the latter
part? I want to arrange
to be here when you come.
If you could come to me
in the Keene Valley (Adirondacks)
it would be particularly
jolly. Could not that be
arranged? If not I want you
here for a visit either before or
after my trip.

Yours Very Truly,
J. B. Clark