A Vermont woman recently discovered a letter her great-grandfather wrote describing a solar eclipse almost 100 years ago.Jennifer Nachbur is the Public Relations Director for UVM's Larner College of Medicine.She told NBC5 she found the letters from her great-grandfather to her great-grandmother in their family's Keene, New York, summer home.The letter is dated June 9, 1918. The eclipse took place the previous day.Nachbur described her great-grandfather Arthur B. Wells as an astronomy buff.He was a lawyer by training and raised his family in Illinois.In 1918, Wells traveled to Baker City, Oregon, for an eclipse that took almost an identical path as the one that will cross America on Monday.Baker City was in the zone of totality, meaning the entire sun was completely obstructed by the moon for almost 2 minutes, although Wells wrote that it was about 90 seconds."The shadow of the moon cuts off the blue rays leaving the red and yellow," Wells wrote. "The result was, as the period of totality approached, that the effect on the cloud and landscape was beyond my power of description."Some form of the eclipse was visible from Wells' location for about two-and-a-half hours as the sun moved across the country."As the hour for the eclipse approached the people began to gather," Wells wrote. "They climbed to the top of the Butts and scattered themselves all over the landscape, but alas the clouds gathered too and the sun passed behind an immense white cloud before the first contact and did not completely emerge until after totality of the eclipse was over."Wells described being with an expedition group of professors and scientists."The clouds operated to reflect the light from the clouds outside of the path of the eclipse so the far distant mountain peaks as seen from the butts, covered with snow, were dazzling white and the clouds above them gave a rainbow effects of the red and yellow without the blue," Wells wrote. "The spectacular result was superb, superior to what it would have been without the clouds."He told his wife of being with "one of America's greatest astronomers," who invented the spectrohelioscope to study the sun."The reflected light prevent it (from) becoming as dark as night," Wells wrote. "Fortunately the edge of the cloud was reached by the sun before the period of totality was over and suddenly there burst into view the eclipsed sun."He uses great adjectives to describe to his wife what he saw."Imagine the sun as a dark ball surrounded by brilliant flames glowing red like a roaring furnace with a wonderful white light as a background stretching out into space," Wells wrote. "The magnificent power of the sun ... the pure beautiful white light enfolding it all as a wonderful flame, the beauty of cloud and landscape with the wonderful combinations of red and yellow was like the throne of a great king to whom cloud and earth were doing homage."But he also added that several members of his party were disappointed by the cloud cover, and just miles away, there was a completely unobstructed view of the eclipse."One amateur astronomer seeing the cloud jumped into his automobile, raced to the distance of three miles and saw the corona unobstructed," Wells wrote.He added that moving his equipment to get a perfect view was not possible because "it had taken weeks to install" them.Nevertheless, Wells deemed it "a complete success" for himself.But viewing the eclipse was not enough for Wells. He even managed to complete a sketch of what he saw.Wells "attached to the telescope a drawing board, lighted by an electric light."He told his wife he viewed the eclipse with his left eye through his telescope and drew it using his right eye."After the eclipse was over I allowed the crowd about me to view the crescent sun with two large spots upon it," Wells wrote. "I think at least 75 people thus looked through the telescope before I began to dismantle it for transportation home."He ended his letter with an apology that his words could not fully describe what he had just witnessed."The fact exists that everything I have written (is) far more meager than the sight demands in power of expression," Wells wrote. "The majesty of the sun over sky and earth was regal and I well understand the religion of the sun worship."Nachbur said her family's summer home includes an observatory that her great-grandfather built by hand to continue his study of astronomy.