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Eldridge, Muriel (Tilden) | to Mother, circa 15 December 1913

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1913-12-15T00:00:01Z-1913-12-15T23:59:59Z
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VC 1914
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vassar:56193,Box 50; VCL_Letters_Eldridge-Muriel-Tilden_1913-10_1913-12_050_012
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[Dec.15, 1913]
306 Main Hall, V.C.
Poughkeepsie, N.Y.

Dear Mother -
Yes, my mouth hurts like the Old Boy Himself - but I hope it will be better ere long. It looks like [Teems], too, but why worry if the ultimate result is to be so “surpassing fair”?
We had a wild bat (?) last night. Pres. Galt came over and spent the night with me and her room-mate, Chris. Barnes, came and stayed with Nat. Bassett. We all

 


: VCL_Letters_Eldridge-Muriel-Tilden_1913-10_1913-12_050_012_002
went down to Senior Parlor in our kimonos and had tea and served! Such excitement! This morning Pres and I went to the Waffle-house for breakfast - and ate long and much. 
    I played in S.P. this noon for D.J. Wolf, a violinist, in our class. We played two of Brahm’s Hungarian Dances. I dread to think of that horrible old Student Recital Wednesday afternoon - no one knows how I hate them. The audience is always excessively sparse to say the least- - and what few there are, criticize until one wishes the old recitals had never been invented. The people that endeavor to sing usually flat from ¼ to a whole tone - ugh!!?*!
    Saturday afternoon was German play - “Das Prinzip” - by Hermann Bahr - my Glee Club sang and 

 


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were really quite grand, I thought. 
    I’m sending some more little invitations home to be sent out - wilt do it for me? Thanks.
    A bunch of people has just come in, so I must stop.
    Lovingly - 
        Muriel.

 


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POUGHKEEPSIE
DEC 15
2 AM
1913
N.Y.

Mrs. B.O. Tilden
291 Westminster Road
Brooklyn, N.Y

 


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The Roycrofters
East Aurora
Erie Co. N.Y.

[stamp]
American Red Cross
1913
MERRY CHRISTMAS