Letter to Taylor

              Philadelphia August 26, 1912.

Mr. Fred W. Taylor,
C/o Mrs. Hannah A. Spooner,
Plymouth, Mass.

Dear Uncle Fred:--

Many thanks for your good letter. We were both mighty glad to hear that Aunt Lou is getting on so well and hope that she will not have any more trouble.

I have been intending to write you something more than postals ever since our trip started, but we have been busy every minute trying to get in the well regulated combination of touring, sights and exercise, in which we succeeded pretty well until the cold weather and flat country in Germany made it both unpleasant to swim and not worth while to walk. On the way over we made out a schedule showing where we hoped to be every night, and to our great surprise we were either ahead or right on this schedule the whole trip. As you are not fortunate enough to own a Pierce car I shall let you know that our first puncture occurred on the last day after a mileage of three thousand (3,000) had been run off. Aside from adjusting the carburretter to the heavier gasoline used abroad this was our only trouble of any kind - a pretty good record I think.

The Locomobile did not get on so well, in fact, they short-circuited their battery, dropped off their acetylene generator and the bottom of one of their lights, and their horn, and their tire,