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1909-04-25T00:00:01Z-1909-04-25T23:59:59Z
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: VCL_Letters_MacCoy-Marjorie-Newell_1909-03_1909-06_041_005_001
April 25, ‘09
Dear Family: -
Margaret
Brady and I are gleeful at the [toys] before us for us for next week-end -- we are going to Moore’s Mills Friday morning, to stay over Sunday. You see Friday is Founder’s Day so we have a [vacation]. [unreadable] of the [rable] were
Dear Family: -
Margaret
Brady and I are gleeful at the [toys] before us for us for next week-end -- we are going to Moore’s Mills Friday morning, to stay over Sunday. You see Friday is Founder’s Day so we have a [vacation]. [unreadable] of the [rable] were
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Going, but they can’t for some reason of another, so [Dutch] and I are going alone -- and, be it said, are not overly sorry at the prospect, as we get along more than amicably, and [we’ll] so get very much more rested than if we were in a mob. I’ll write you from there next week. Yesterday we had our supper up on Sunset, and were so spiffy as to have ice-cream and straw-
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berries -- some [stylists]? The weather has been much rainy all this week, but the grass has prospered thereby - the leaves are slowly assembling, and the [glen] is white with blood-roots. All extra time now we spend in song practices for Tree Day - the 7th. I wish you were all going to see them - they will be so very beautiful, we think, and we are so excited.
Thursday I had my first swimming lesson, and you’d have died laughing if you’d seen me. I was on a belt and pulley and splashed gaily around in the pool kicking like a frog, etc. Nevertheless, Miss Ballintine said she thought I did very well
Thursday I had my first swimming lesson, and you’d have died laughing if you’d seen me. I was on a belt and pulley and splashed gaily around in the pool kicking like a frog, etc. Nevertheless, Miss Ballintine said she thought I did very well
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and ought to be able to swim in 5 or 6 lessons. Ha! Ha! [Once] she went out to get something and some of my dear friends came along, and started having me out of the water by means of the pulley, whereat I screamed and kicked busily, much to their delight.
I hope you are all well and flourishing.
I hope you are all well and flourishing.
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Dr. Thelberg stopped me the other day and looked through me in her characteristic way (you never know whether she’s going to compliment you for a wool dress or reprimand you for pumps!) and says she “well, fellow snake, I hear you’re getting fat!” I hastily and sadly corroborated her statement. So she pinched my cheek, patted on the back, and trotted
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off proudly remarking or her marvelous achievement of a “pink MacCoy!” Isn’t she rich?
No more news, I guess. So much love to all.
As Ever
Marjorie
No more news, I guess. So much love to all.
As Ever
Marjorie
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Postmark: Poughkeepsie, N.Y.
10 -- 30 AM
APR 26 09
Dr. Alexander W. MacCoy
Mrs. William P. Logan
Overbrook Ave. and 58th St.
Philadelphia
10 -- 30 AM
APR 26 09
Dr. Alexander W. MacCoy
Mrs. William P. Logan
Overbrook Ave. and 58th St.
Philadelphia
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