CCC Vol. 2 p. 49 Hugh Ellison

We have taken a house out in the country for the summer; it is claimed to be on the highest point in Ontario County¹. It is slightly; on a clear day we can see the Atlantic Ocean on the east and Lake Michigan on the west, but so far I have not been able to recognize Uncle Will's place yet², for sure.

Gertrude is still going to school at Canandaigua, and Helen at Victor.

We are all having colds and none of us are feeling first class just now.

The last of March we drove to North Brookfield, N. Y., and had dinner with Cousins Betty and Roy Walker. We certainly enjoyed our time with them, but talk about the snow in Potter County³, why down there they do not pretend to use their snow until it is two or three years old.

Father Ellison is still living in Himrod⁴, but is talking of going to Penn Yan⁴ to live as Pauline is going to school there and Frances is going to Keuka College.

I did not want to write this letter too soon as I wanted to get in it all things of interest; but am afraid Virginia will have nervous prostration if I do not get it off now so I am writing it even though I have nothing to tell.

1. Ontario County is on the shore of Lake Ontario, and is mostly pretty flat. But it's high point (which may or may not have been where Hugh's summer home was), is Frost Hill, near Bristol Springs -- height 2,283 ft - wbt.

2. As you have probably figured out already, Hugh liked to tell "tall tales" --- which I attribute to his being an avid fisherman. Uncle Will's place was on Green Bay, on the far side of Lake Michigan, so it's understandable if Hugh couldn't quite make it out.

3. PA. I'm not sure what's going on with the sudden shift to talking about Potter County. Perhaps Will Selph's typists omitted a segue when they typed Hugh's letter. Perhaps he and Roy talked about fishing there (Roy was an avid fisherman too) so that might have been what brought it to mind when Hugh was writing this letter.

4. NY.