Miss M. L. Leland lived in Watertown, the city founded by Puritan settlers in 1630.
Watertown is now adjacent to the city of Boston.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watertown,_Massachusetts
Miss Leland’s address includes, “Perkins Institute for the Blind”, but we do not know if she was a resident of the Institute or if she was employed there.
The Perkins Institute was the first school for the blind established in the US.
It still exists, and is a major publisher of literature for the blind.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perkins_School_for_the_Blind
In August of 1916, Miss Leland received a postcard from Edith Taylor (possibly, “Laylor”).
The postcard is a photograph of the Cripple Creek Short Line Railroad passing a section of Cathedral Rocks.
(We have seen other postcard stories related to short line railroad excursions into the Rocky Mountains.)
Cathedral Rocks are a geological formation in Clyde Park, then an attraction of the small town of Clyde, near Colorado Springs.
This area was developed in the mining booms of the 1880’s but became popular with tourists in the early 20th century.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colorado_Springs_and_Cripple_Creek_District_Railway
The postcard photograph was published by the Acmegraph Company of Chicago.
On the reverse, Edith reports of the trip thus far: “We have been through…Yellowstone and are working our way down to Kansas City…”
The party expects to stay in Excelsior Springs, a resort about 30 miles northeast of Kansas City, Missouri,
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elms_Hotel_(Excelsior_Springs,_Missouri)
We don’t know what kind of difficulties the travelers may have experienced.
Roads were primitive and unpaved in many parts of the country, and road trips were often a sequence of tire punctures or other mishaps.
Edith alludes to some difficulties when she writes, “We had a nice, if rather strenuous, time”.
One hopes the travelers completed their excursion with few additional hardships, and that Miss Leland heard more travel tales when she met Edith again.
