August 1, 1909.
Cavendish, P.E.I.

“This evening I spent in Lover’s Lane.  How beautiful it was—green and alluring and beckoning!  I had been tired and discouraged and sick at heart before I went to it—and it rested me and cheered me and stole away the heartsickness, giving peace and newness of life.

I owe much to that dear lane.  And in return I have given it love—and fame.  I painted it in my book: and as a result the name of this little remote woodland lane is known all over the world.  Visitors to Cavendish ask for it and seek it out.  Photographs of its scenery have appeared in the magazines.  The old lane is famous.”

Source:  The Selected Journals of L.M. Montgomery, Volume 1: 1889-1910