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430th Meeting - Tanglewood - 2 Mo. 21, 1910

The name is suggestive of those delightful stories that
the author of the Scarlet Letter wrote while dreaming over
his dish in the Old Salem Custom House, tales of long ago,

that tho present generation doesn't read, but with which
must profess a title acquaintance, knows the name
and admires, much as the passing stranger knows the
real Tanglewood: going down the Baltimore road then
is a glimpse of well kept grounds, a handsome house
of more than seven gables, then it is lost. The day was
one of rain, soaking, penetrating. Entering between the
driveway portals the guests were pleased to find mine
host had emptied wagon shelters and carriage houses that
the horses of the visitors might be protected.

Inside we cared not for the rain. A cheerful wood fire
blazing in the hearth and the refreshing green of the
conseratory opposite offered a welcome that ably
seconded that of our hosts, while the McKinley desk
modestly in evidence was a reminder that the membership
of the H.I. is not without honor, even in a
college of presidential electors.

Sickness, the rain and the lure of Washington with
the possibility of elbowing a president in meeting (even
if Lucy Moore does miss it) added to this list of absentees
which was: John and Kate Thomas, Mary Bentley Thomas,
Merritt and Lydia Haviland, Louisa Brooke, Carrie Brooke,
Arthur Stabler and wife, William and Lucy Moore, Albina Stabler,
Mary Gilpin, Hallie and Maurice Bentely and Emma Bond.

The visitors were: Mary Thomas, Taylor Thom.
and Lucy Thom.

Supper was served in the dining rooms in the