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Letter from Mary Lee to doctor Cushing

Handwritten letter from Mary Lee to Dr. Cushing written on August 5, 1941, black ink on blue paper. She thanks Dr. Cushing for her visit to St. Andrews and the Museum and congratulates him for all his work at the Museum, having particularly enjoyed the Abbott Room.

In this letter from August 5, 1941, Mary Lee wrote to Dr. Cushing of her appreciation of a visit to the Argenteuil Regional Museum after the death of Maude Abbott. “I am sure she would be delighted with your arrangements of the Museum and particularly with the Abbott room, which I think is a great success.”

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August 5, 1941

Dear Dr Cushing!

I can’t tell how much it meant to me to see St. Andrews once more, & to be able to go over the Carillon Museum in its finished state. It was like a dream come true. It was most awfully good of you to arrange my day in Montreal so pleasantly for me and to take so much trouble over me.

I enjoyed every minute of it, -the drive out with your historical eye & knowledge explaining it as we went, – the visit to your charming house & garden, -the museum and last the tea with Dr. Abbott’s good friends and the stop to see Miss Funcheon. It all brought her spirit back to me so vividly and will be such as pleasant recollection to add to my many memories of her. I am sure she would be delighted with your arrangements of the Museum and particularly with the Abbott room, which I think is a great success. I am sure the collections at the museum will become more & more valuable every year & I am not at all sure that you should not get a tea room license & rent out a concession there each summer, as tea on the terrace at the back, or on the lawn as we had it would, I should think, bring crowds. They do it at Ticonderoga with great success. Every one always wants to eat!

With many, many thanks for your kindness, & best regards,

Sincerely, Mary Lee.