1885

Dr. Ed Allen is, as usual, spending the winter at his Boston home and tells the secretary that he passed the season from May to November at his summer farm "Linwood Grove" in Whitinsville, Mass., which comprises about two hundred acres of tillage and woodland. He has been busy attending to the cutting and sawing of lumber until he lost his foreman, forty-four years old, through the preemptory call of the draft board; this necessitated the closing of his farm and the immediate disposal of over three hundred hens and chickens, leaving him with only four pet ducks, which the wild ducks, after a short conference, inveigled into joining them in their annual trip South. The Doctor is much interested in the forthcoming biography of our classmate, Richard Hovey, which is in course of preparation by Professor Macdonald of our College, to whom he was able to furnish much information due to his intimate acquaintance with Hovey.

Scarcity of information from other members of his class leads the secretary to refer to a busines trip which he took early in January to Montpelier, Vermont, where he had the pleasure of a very enjoyable call upon Fred Howland '87 and his family and also visited the Vermont legislature, then in session, where he was the guest of Alfred Watson '83, the member from White River Junction, whose service of six terms in the Vermont House of Representatives and one term in the Senate should give him the honor of being the Nestor of the present House, which very appropriately voted Watson his choice of seat.

Secretary, Kimball Building, Rooms 910-912 18 Tremont Street, Boston, Mass.