The Camp Sunningdale Dec 7/[18]90
My dear Young Lion I was very pleased with your letter of the 30th: Nov: giving me such a good account of the lecture which you have heard about America. New York appeared to me when I was there, to be a very puzzling city to understand, because of the three rivers & the Island.- The elevated railway is a dreadful disfigurement, fancy a railway constructed upon iron pillars running down a street with tall houses on each side, the passengers in the carriages look into the windows of the first floors of the houses, & in the street below you have this horrid rail over your head, & the noise, all the works & supports being of iron, is dreadful. The Statue of Liberty was not put up when I was at New York, but I saw the Longfellow at Cambridge (M. ) Dr: Gray took me to call upon him, he was a fine looking old man with long white hair. Granny goes tomorrow to Mr Orr's at Brighton, & will go on to Ganon Gower's next Saturday. We are all quite well. Grace has been attending Ambulance classes, & learning how to nurse. We had a lady Miss Berkeley staying with us all last week who belongs to a Missionary Establishment at Zanzibar, where they educate the little slave children, that are rescued when brought down to the coast. They are taught a great many things that are useful, so that when they go out they can earn their livelihoods. She describes them as very pleasing & intelligent children very fond of play & sweets, like some other children that I know !! but very tractable. The climate of Zanzibar is so bad that the teachers are obliged to come home at the end of every three years to recruit. their health. The Island

is very low, hot, & damp, so damp that it is difficult to dry their washing, even in the sun, which is so hot in the day that one can hardly get out: & the dews are so heavy at night that every thing out out of doors is saturated in the morning. Every one suffers more or less from fever, The Cockroaches, Ants, & Caterpillars abound in the houses! but there is a beautiful sea breeze afternoon & morning that cools the air, & makes the heat tolerable. All send their love to you & all hoping to see you home on the I9th: With love to Hugh. Your ever loving Old Lion.