It's in the 90s in Alexandria. In July 1909 Nancy Lee Tackett wrote her mother (who always fled Alexandria in the summer) the heat was terrific, adding "all three servants" were getting along nicely. I wonder what it was like back in 1926, when Margaret Mitchell began her epic while recovering from a broken ankle. While recuperating from several operations in June 2007, I began Letters to Virginia but it wasn't nearly as hot as it is now. It took each of us three years to complete our books. . . . Have several dates coming up to present my book, in September. The 10th at Cape Charles; the 12th at Accomac; then the 19th and 20th for the Fall for the Book Festival. At Blenheim first, then Dolly Madison Library in McLean. Still hoping for Norfolk, where Jack Tackett lived so many years.