Edward W. Axson to Jessie Woodrow Wilson Sayre

I would have answered your good letter before this but have been so very busy with the new work here that I have had no time whatever for writing. Florence has been equally busy with young Edward Stockton who demands (or at least gets) a great deal of attention—this has kept her from answering your letters which she enjoyed very much. I was glad to hear from your own & Madge's letters that Skyland is proving such a satisfactory place—why are you going to leave it for Waynesboro? We have been so sorry that we are not keeping house this summer so that we could have tried to get you all down here for awhile—it would have been such fun & you would have enjoyed so seeing the baby. We had it all planned out if we went to housekeeping to have you come—but for several reasons, we decided we would have to board for a time at any rate—one reason being the absence of any available house. I hope if things go all right it will not be very long before we can try to have a visit from you—You & Margaret, and Madge most of all, would feel as if you were coming to your old home when you reached Gainesville. Both Florence and I like it very much here (tho' the days are pretty hot) and Edward Jr says he is not very particular where he stays so long as he gets plenty to eat. It is a little lonely for F., for I am away at work all day from about 7 in the morning till 7 at night, sometimes not coming home for dinner. We are boarding with a very nice family named Bolding, father, mother, three grown daughters & a little boy. They are very kind people and having girls in the house makes it pleasanter for Florence. We are nine miles N.W. of Gainesville on the Chestatee River. I have to drive quite frequently on business & once carried F. & the boy. It is too long a drive tho' for them him to take often in hot weather. He had to go to see the doctor that time—as he was having indigestion—Dr Bailey soon fixed him up & after they had spent a few days at Mrs Barnes, who has been lovely to us, I went to bring them home. The baby has not gotten fat yet, owing to his indigestion we think, but now that he is getting all right again we expect him to pick up rapidly. He smiles at you all the time now & F. maintains he has laughed out once or twice. His eyes are changing to brown—I think they are going to be like Florence's. A good many people say he looks like me but neither F. nor I can see any resemblance to anyone in particular.
My work here is proving very interesting and if it only turns out successful also I shall like it very much. I have been putting in some machinery and we hope to start up in about ten days. I have to ride & drive a great deal at times one day last week I drove thirty five miles.
I suppose you will have a great deal of fun out of Margaret Flinn & George—I hope they are a well behaved couple. Am so glad to hear they are to be married in the fall. What do you hear now from Papa & Mama—I suppose they are having just a splendid time—I wrote to them the other day.
Must close now in order to take F. for a drive—it is good to have Sundays for ourselves again, at Mannie I had to work. With best love to all—and especially Jessie—in which F. and the Boy both join