FIFTH AVENUE HOTEL room 75.
MADISON SQUARE, NEW YORK. Sept 26th/97
My dear friend,
I wrote you on the 16th just after the day I wrote you a few lines, & also on the 13th writing you “Miss B, left us the 10th, Mr C, & I not being able to keep her;” &in your letter to Mr C, of the 18th received Yest’y, you write, you have not heard from me, I have not yet replyed to dear Mrs D’s but will soon, &with love, tell her to be firm in keeping you with her; tho’ I do deeply sympathise with you; poor N.O. she seems doomed, first the failure of crops, then the high waters, &now the fever, but we must not judge of His decrees, who is too wise to err; He knows best what we deserve, and is for our good.— In our wanderings this Sum’r we were at Woodstock Inn Vermont, &sat at the table with Rev Dr (P.E) Wm C. Winslow &wife, who is Vice Presd’t of the Egypt Exploration Fund, American Branch, and handed me the paper I enclose, &is most anxious to meet you,
they reside in Boston, &they wish to visit N.O. this winter; after knowing my name, he said to me “are you related in anyway to Newcomb College? I would like very much to have one of her Catalogues.”— I at once sat down &wrote Miss Cage on the 18th to send “Mrs John Chamberlain 587 West 145 St New York” to send her two dozen, as she had friends, (she wrote me) in Omaha, & Colorado, who had written to her of the Newcomb, and for Catalogues; but Mrs C’ln has not received them yet. when they come I will send one to Dr W, & others who asked for them. I had a long letter of the 21st from Mrs Dr R— (enclosing one from Dr McKowen of eight pages) writing me “people are panic stricken without the least alarm or fear.” Mr C’s regards to Mrs D. & C, yourself, with my love from very
Sinly Jo. L Newcomb.
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