Thursday afternoon.
Dearest May Louise
Your letter was so nice that I got yesterday. I think your criticism of my review was right, but the mistake wasn’t altogether unconscious on my part -- when I was asked to write the review I was told to make it very complimentary, so in what I said I rather exceeded what I really thought. As to the dress -- you are a dear to have thought of it, but two weeks ago when one of the girls wished Miss Badgely to make her something, she said she couldn’t possibly take any more things. She’s so slow anyway, that with nothing else in the world to do she couldn’t make a dress and get it done in less than two weeks. Then, I really am so rushed with work that I could not possibly go for fittings all the time. I really will get along very nicely with the things I have. I shall only need to wear white on class day and I’ll get along all right without


a new one. It will be much better to have Miss Marshall make it after I get home, and then it will be fresh for summer wear when I shall do the grand society act.
It is ten minutes of three and the mail goes then so I’ll send this off just as it is and write more tonight or tomorrow. Oh, but you ought to be glad you’re not having to cram for and worry about examinations! Esther and Ruth are to have adjacent singles next year at one end of the corridor we’re on. No, I haven’t had my skirt fixed, for lack of time, lack of cash, and because I’ve been wearing it constantly for match games, and because it looks very well as it is and I just have not got the time to fool any more with clothes
Goodbye
Slews and oodles of love
Peg.


Clothes
POUGHKEEPSIE, N.Y. MAY 19 5PM 1904
Miss May Louise Shipp
1010 North Delaware Street
Indianapolis, Indiana