I have yours of 4th on arriving here.

I did write E. C. Gardner. Neither the New London plan nor the Arboretum can be long delayed & the Choate & Ford plans will soon be pressing, but in some way I must manage to absorb myself and be free in using assistance in getting the design of West Rox. It is far more important than everything else. Can’t you manage to throw more upon Eliot & let him throw more on Codman, so as to put yourself strictly upon what you alone can do? I see all the New Year business close upon you.

I can see that Clark is in some trepidation as to his office. Two bills have already been introduced intended to consolidate it with the Treasury Architects. None can pass this session but they presage trouble next year.

If you go out at all for exercise, try to get familiar with the rocks between Thomas St. & Glen road & to the S.W. so as to be able to judge, when we come to experiment with lines, where cuttings might go clear of solid ledges.

Yours affctly