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Shipp, Margaret M. | to Sister, 13 May 1903

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1903-05-13T00:00:01Z-1903-05-13T23:59:59Z
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Wednesday night.
Dearest Mamie.
Well I suppose you and dad were disappointed not to get your regular Sunday letter from me. How I happened to forget to mail it I’m sure I don’t know, but I wrote one anyway so you see my intentions were good. I havent stopped working for a minute since early Monday morning. My but these last few weeks before exams are trying. I get terribly discouraged

 


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in everything but literature. This morning Miss Keys returned to us the papers we wrote several weeks ago on “The Renaissance Spirit in England as shown in Roister-Doister, [Gorbodne], and [Tamburlaine].” Well, I had worked awfully hard on mine and it was anything but an easy subject. Miss Keys wrote at the end of each paper one word -- her opinion. The “word” varied; in one instance it was “slim,” in another “fair,” in another “slight.” Ruth and I found the word “satisfactory” on ours, and

 


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while that didn’t sound like extravagant praise, we couldn’t find that anyone else had gotten a criticism more favorable or even as favorable, so we are quite pleased. I hope I’ll be able to write a good special topic. I’m going to begin this Friday. I decided to take Langland as Revealed in his works for a subject. Would I could spend all my time on literature, history, and French. I spent most of this afternoon reading a history of Russin in French, Lavisse and Ramband. It’s a splendid Histoire Generale. I have likewise read Bacon’s Essays.
Well, you can see that my life hasn’t been especially eventful lately, and you may get tired if I talk about lessons anymore, so farewell.
Peg.
Your type writer experiment sounds interesting!

 


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Miss Keys + comments “Slim” etc, special, epic
“Langlord as Revealed in his works”
POUGHKEEPSIE, MAY 14 9AM 1903 N.Y.
Miss May Louise Shipp
1010 N. Delaware Street
Indianapolis
Indiana

 


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INDIANAPOLIS, IND. MAY 15 1230PM 1903