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1908-11-08T00:00:01Z-1908-11-08T23:59:59Z
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VC 1911
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vassar:56246,Box 41; VCL_Letters_MacCoy-Marjorie-Newell_1908-10_1908-12_041_003
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: VCL_Letters_MacCoy-Marjorie-Newell_1908-10_1908-12_041_003_001
Nov. 8, ‘08
Howdy, Folks:-
Typed transcription of page 1 of letter…………………………..
The First Hall Play is now being discussed violently on all sides. Everyone is going into raptures over the leading lady, 1908 is [unreadable] at [unreadable] on the campus, and altogether, the college is just as it was in “Jean’s day.” The play was fine - it was Bernard Shaw’s “You Never Can Tell.” It’s quite funny you know, and very interesting. I ushered and nearly burst with pride to be doing it, for I have been green with envy before this to be “not popular” in that line.
1911 and 1912 went in the afternoon, and sang [lustily], and in the evening 1911 trotted out by
Howdy, Folks:-
Typed transcription of page 1 of letter…………………………..
The First Hall Play is now being discussed violently on all sides. Everyone is going into raptures over the leading lady, 1908 is [unreadable] at [unreadable] on the campus, and altogether, the college is just as it was in “Jean’s day.” The play was fine - it was Bernard Shaw’s “You Never Can Tell.” It’s quite funny you know, and very interesting. I ushered and nearly burst with pride to be doing it, for I have been green with envy before this to be “not popular” in that line.
1911 and 1912 went in the afternoon, and sang [lustily], and in the evening 1911 trotted out by
: VCL_Letters_MacCoy-Marjorie-Newell_1908-10_1908-12_041_003_002
the fire-escape, and sang to 1908 -- Also the Freshman did the same. I wasn’t there, tho’ [though], for Val took me, along with some other people down to see [Edeson] in “The Call of the North,” a wild blood-curdling melodrama in which all the men talked thro’ [through] their teeth, and the ingenue heroine almost touched noses with the hero when she conversed with him. Whether she thought he was near-sighted or not, I can’t say.
Today Dr. Ferris of the 1st Baptist Church of Phila. [Philadelphia] preached. He was fine, and I was ashamed not to have known anything about him.
Next week, at present, offers nothing particularly exciting, but
Today Dr. Ferris of the 1st Baptist Church of Phila. [Philadelphia] preached. He was fine, and I was ashamed not to have known anything about him.
Next week, at present, offers nothing particularly exciting, but
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I suppose things will turn up. Lilias is going to “have a man” next Saturday, and I was [unreadable] to have Bob, but of course he’s going to the Yale game -- I forgot all about it.
I’m awful sleepy, even tho’ [though] it’s not ten yet, so I’ll close with lots of love. You are so nice, and your letters are like you. Thank Jean for her [nice] note to Val. She is [bubbling] with excitement, and [I’ll] [write] you her plans later.
As Ever Lovingly
Marjorie
I’m awful sleepy, even tho’ [though] it’s not ten yet, so I’ll close with lots of love. You are so nice, and your letters are like you. Thank Jean for her [nice] note to Val. She is [bubbling] with excitement, and [I’ll] [write] you her plans later.
As Ever Lovingly
Marjorie
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POUGHKEEPSIE
NOV 9
5 30PM
1908
N.Y.
Dr. Alexander MacCoy, et. al.
Overbrook Ave. and 58th St.
Philadelphia
NOV 9
5 30PM
1908
N.Y.
Dr. Alexander MacCoy, et. al.
Overbrook Ave. and 58th St.
Philadelphia
