ABSTRACT
In the ongoing search for time to write and to mull over and to go ever more deeply into things through metaphor and the free association of ideas, Robert's decision to leave Plymouth, New Hampshire, where his teaching career was on an upswing course and was proving a serious distraction from his poetry, coincided with his wife's own desires and expectations. Two former students of Robert's at Pinkerton Academy in Derry, John Bartlett and Margaret Abbott, had married and moved to Vancouver where John could pursue a writing career; Robert in particular was strongly drawn to the wild, natural beauty of British Columbia. Elinor had suggested England: she longed to live under thatch, as near to Stratford as possible. Elinor mentions the ocean trip only in passing: 'We sailed from Boston to Glasgow, and enjoyed the ocean trip on the whole, though Mr. Frost, Lesley and I were quite seasick for a few days'.
