1880 June 14, Geneva, to Lily

Clementine writes to Elizabeth from Lake Geneva, on the French-Swiss border, where she is staying with a French family met the previous fall. She loves the area and Europe in general (calling it "the living side of the Atlantic"). Clementine half-seriously advises Elizabeth to move from Woodbourne to a cottage on the Lake Geneva hillside and admits that she would do so herself permanently were it not for Elizabeth and Alexis' children, whom she wishes so much to see . Clementine describes the educational opportunities in the region as exception for those from "moderate circumstances."