I have taken your nice paper since the first number, and have never
written to you yet. I rode on the locomotive of an express train
for the first time the other day. It was splendid, but I got shaken
up a good deal. I sat three seats ahead of President Garfield in
church at Long Branch the Sunday before he was shot. He looked like
such a good man it was a shame he was shot. There is an old house
here which General Washington had as his head-quarters during the
winter of 1780-81. I have been through it a great many times, and
my father (who is a clergyman) showed me the room which an old lady
parishioner of his, who has been dead over twenty years, had when
General Washington was occupying the house. She was his
housekeeper, and papa was told about his life here. I would like to
have known her; would not you? I am afraid my letter is too long.