Vassar College Digital Library

Shipp, Margaret M. | to Sister, 19 April 1905

Content Warning
The Vassar College Archives within the Digital Library include some images, texts, and material items that are racist, xenophobic, or otherwise harmful. The Vassar Libraries have provided descriptive text and additional notes whenever possible to alert Digital Library users to these items. The Engaged Pluralism Initiative Race and Racism in Historical Collections Project Group is working with the library on contextualizing and facilitating community conversations about these materials. For more information see: https://library.vassar.edu/rrhc
Access Control
Date
1905-04-19T00:00:01Z-1905-04-19T23:59:59Z
Abstract
VC 1905
Transcript file(s)
Details
Identifier
vassar:56600,Box 16; VCL_Letters_Shipp-Margaret-M_1905-04_1905-05_016_002
Extent
1 item
Format
Type
Rights
For more information about rights and reproduction, visit http://specialcollections.vassar.edu/policies/permissionto.html

 


: VCL_Letters_Shipp-Margaret-M_1905-04_1905-05_016_002_001
Wednesday morning.
Dearest May Louise
It’s Thursday morning now -- but never mind. You and dad are just the right thing! You bet you I’ll dine at the Inn or at Smiths and I think ‘twill be mighty good for me.
As to Fred and Founders. I asked Charles you know when I visited there, and he seemed pleased and said he wasn’t sure about being able to get away from college then but that he

 


: VCL_Letters_Shipp-Margaret-M_1905-04_1905-05_016_002_002
would let me know very soon. Well, he hasn’t said a word about it and I didn’t think it was up to me to write and ask him again, so I took it for granted he was not coming and made no arrangements. ‘Twould be too late to make them now for either Charles or Fred, though I’d love to have Fred come -- but I don’t know him well enough to ask him up unless I could be sure of making

 


: VCL_Letters_Shipp-Margaret-M_1905-04_1905-05_016_002_003
him have a good time. Now, all the girls have their dance cards made out and have planned their parties for the next day -- and all of my particular friends whom I’d like him to meet are going to a house party at Ruths, and so am I -- she’s going to have Jath and Esther and Fanny and me. But I’d love to have Fred up some other time. I just wish he’d come to call, which of course he wont --
I’m just crazy about my family. I told the girls so at the breakfast table and I’m going to tell everybody I see. They might as well know the true state of my feelings first as last.
I don’t care Mamie whether the waists are all over embroidery or dotted swiss. Send either one you like. I’ll write again soon
With lots and splooches of love
Peg.

 


: VCL_Letters_Shipp-Margaret-M_1905-04_1905-05_016_002_004
POUGHKEEPSIE, N.Y. APR 20 130PM 1905
Miss May Louise Shipp
1104 North New Jersey Street
Indianapolis
Indiana.
Invited [Charles] Robbins to Founder’s but he didn’t come

 


: VCL_Letters_Shipp-Margaret-M_1905-04_1905-05_016_002_005
INDIANAPOLIS, IND.
ARP 21
1-PM
1905