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THE INN
-AT-
GEORGIA WARM SPRINGS
WARM SPRINGS, GA.

May 8, 1927.

Dear Father;

This starts off as another hot day -- Dr. Hubbard reported at the breakfast table that the temperature was already 76 when he looked. Our perfect weather continues, without any absence of sun, but with frequent showers at night or in the evening to prevent things from getting dry, and to help the new grass on the golf course. The afternoons have been hot, but without being busy I have been able to keep cool. Then last night we took another auto ride to Greenville, White Sulphur, etc. Whenever we stopped, the temperature was oppressively hot, but when the cars were going the air was wonderful. Everyone practically from the cottages went, and, under the management of Mr. Good, the two cars requisitioned for this purpose were better than the ones in which we made the trip before. At Greenville we called at Judge Terrell's, and at white Sulphur we had sandwiches, soda, etc.

The Thursday letter from you and Mother arrived yesterday. In case the proofs have not arrived by the time this letter reaches you, please send one of them to me, marked HOLD, John Jay Ball, Columbia University, instead of sending the one to me here. Thank you for sending the Corn Exchange Bank book.

Tell Mother that the nasturtiums in window boxes near the cottages where I formerly lived are now in bloom, and the daisies in the fields are at or past their prime.

Mrs. Roosevelt arrived here on Friday night, and she and Mr. Roosevelt were called north the following day by the death of a brother. Yesterday afternoon, there being no walking exercises, Edward Edgert on and I went up to see the "iron man" -- a former target for duellists. On the way, Mr. Roosevelt's car passed us, taking him to the station, and he called that he would be back in about ten days. Mr. Curtis and Mrs. Curtis, too, are in Boston, because of her mother's death.

I am enclosing the laundry list for one of the weeks showing the various items which were bulked under the 50cts rate.

I am writing Mrs. Sherwood that I expect to leave here for Atlanta at 4;40 Saturday, arrivin at 7:20, and that I will get something to eat en route. She replied, to my other letter "by return mail, saying that they would, not let me go Sunday night.

I think that perhaps I will stop Tuesday in Washington, and, reach Hew York Wednesday.

I hope that you are enjoying some of this wonderful spring weather in Poughkeepsie.

With much love,
Paul

P.S. After writing this, three of us had a chance to go to the Baptist Church in Warm Springs village. While we did not arrive until after 11:00, the service lasted until nearly 12:50.

The Church, about the size of that at Highland, was entirely filled, and it was a beautiful service, being devoted altogether to Mother's Day. There were many recitations by girls and boys, and much singing, with a taking "swing", by the chorus choir. One "step" in the service consisted in girls coming forward singly, each reciting a short tribute to an older girl in the center (representing Mother), and then each presenting her with a flower from the bouquets which they carried (each made of different kinds of native blooms). There was a good talk by the pastor, on Proverbs 31:10-28, if I remember correctly, and the service ended with everyone (except Mothers) rising and giving a military salute to Mothers, after which a group of children sang the Mother's Doxology.

The church was cool, with windows open, or at least as cool as a place could well be when men had to wear coats, I am making some use of my flannels.

Am glad to have had one opportunity to attend church, as without it I should have missed the central theme of community life here. Pronunciation was most regular in the hymns. In the recitations by young people it was most interesting, with a certain mountain droll, but the program was carried through with energy.