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1902-03-12T00:00:01Z-1902-03-12T23:59:59Z
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Wednesday Mch 12.
Dearest Mamie
I have a back attack of spring-fever. It is after three o’clock and I went to sleep accidentally after lunch. I woke up just now and found it was too late for me to go to Greek so I am writing this letter I had intended to write to night.
Yesterday I got a
Dearest Mamie
I have a back attack of spring-fever. It is after three o’clock and I went to sleep accidentally after lunch. I woke up just now and found it was too late for me to go to Greek so I am writing this letter I had intended to write to night.
Yesterday I got a
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perfectly lovely letter from Constance which I answered this morning. She is so sweet and fine. She is sad too, I think, and I hope you will see her at Easter. She goes home Mch 26th and has to be back April 3rd. I also got yesterday a terribly cute letter from Natalie which I shall answer as soon I I have time. My dear, last week
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I spend days writing a treatise on My Theory of Poetry! It was terribly hard to do, and of course we weren’t supposed to read anyone’s else opinion on poetry. Now I am reading Pater’s Essay on Style. I should like it better if I didn’t have to read every sentence over three or four times in order to find the subject and predicate. Miss [Braun] has ordered for me the prettiest edition of Jeffries Pageant of Summer! It is the Mossure (don’t know how to spell it) edition, with a very artistic cover, and printed on Japan vellum paper. She is going to get them for us for 65 or 70 cents.
The other night Mary Pratt had a grand celebration in her room. An aunt of hers who lives in Kentucky had sent her a great big box with all the good things to eat you ever hear of. There were slews of ambrosaic[ambrosiac] beaten biscuit!
The other night Mary Pratt had a grand celebration in her room. An aunt of hers who lives in Kentucky had sent her a great big box with all the good things to eat you ever hear of. There were slews of ambrosaic[ambrosiac] beaten biscuit!
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jars of jam, olives, and p i c k l e s, oh such luscious home-put-up ones! Then there were slews of chicken croquettes which I heated on the chafing-dish! and last of all, the biggest layer cake I ever saw!
Yesterday when I took off the red shirt waist, (the thin one) which I had been wearing, there was a great rent in the back when it was too tight. My shoulders seem to be getting
Yesterday when I took off the red shirt waist, (the thin one) which I had been wearing, there was a great rent in the back when it was too tight. My shoulders seem to be getting
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Lots broader and I don’t know what to do. Maybe they (shirtwaists, not shoulders) would fit you better than they do me. I think I’ll be needing those shirt waist suits very soon now.
I got a note this afternoon asking me to be in the chorus of the Greek play they are going to give out of doors this spring. Won’t it be fun? I am crazy about it!
Don’t forget, honey, to
I got a note this afternoon asking me to be in the chorus of the Greek play they are going to give out of doors this spring. Won’t it be fun? I am crazy about it!
Don’t forget, honey, to
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send back those snow-storm blue-prints, and also the examination papers as I want to paste them in my Memory Book.
It is still awfully muddy out but the sun is out and it’s nice and warm. Polly and I waded downtown and back yesterday and enjoyed it muchly even though is was such hard walking. At the present moment I should rejoice and be exceeding glad if it weren’t that my nose tells me we are going to have pork for dinner. I never can touch it. I must say one gets a little tired occasionally of Whitlock diet and Whitlock grouches and Whitlock relatives. I have just purchased a glass of jelly and a box of crackers with which to console myself.
Faretheewell now, to yourself and dad
Your little Peggy.
It is still awfully muddy out but the sun is out and it’s nice and warm. Polly and I waded downtown and back yesterday and enjoyed it muchly even though is was such hard walking. At the present moment I should rejoice and be exceeding glad if it weren’t that my nose tells me we are going to have pork for dinner. I never can touch it. I must say one gets a little tired occasionally of Whitlock diet and Whitlock grouches and Whitlock relatives. I have just purchased a glass of jelly and a box of crackers with which to console myself.
Faretheewell now, to yourself and dad
Your little Peggy.
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Theory of Poetry
Food
Whitlock
POUGHKEEPSIE, MAR 13 930 A[M] 1902 N.Y.
Miss Shipp
1010 N. Del. St.
Indianapolis
Indiana
28
Food
Whitlock
POUGHKEEPSIE, MAR 13 930 A[M] 1902 N.Y.
Miss Shipp
1010 N. Del. St.
Indianapolis
Indiana
28
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INDIANAPOLIS, IND.
MAR 14 2-PM ‘02
RE[CEIVED]
[Rec’d] [unsealed] [six]
MAR 14 2-PM ‘02
RE[CEIVED]
[Rec’d] [unsealed] [six]
