On Thursday (22d) Nellie, Howard1 and I left New
York at 12: 15 and coming by the Shore Line reached Newport at 9 P.M. Yesterday
we walked down to the beach in the morning and in the afternoon went to see the
Constitution, the ship where the Cadets live. We took a sailboat and
when we had gone over the ship, visited the fort. It was a very pleasant trip
and with pleasant people. Wherever we go we hear pleasant things of Rob.
Yesterday a young Mr. Tuckerman inquired after him, saying: “Mother will be so
pleased to hear something of Rob; we can't help calling him Rob, — you know
everybody does, he's such a general favorite.” And then Minnie Temple says that
Gus King (who was in Rob's tent in Washington in April), upon seeing his photo,
exclaimed, “Oh, do you know Rob Thaw? Why he'th the beth fellow I ever thaw!”
It is so pleasant to hear such things of the dear fellow.
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1 William Howard White, a cousin, brought up in
the family.
SOURCE: William Rhinelander Stewart, The
Philanthropic Work of Josephine Shaw Lowell, p. 17-8
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