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1913-12-08T00:00:01Z-1913-12-08T23:59:59Z
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: VCL_Letters_Eldridge-Muriel-Tilden_1913-10_1913-12_050_011_001
[Dec.8, 1913]
Dearest -
I’m ‘shamed to write on such pathetic paper, but I’m on my way to class and can’t stop for any other.
I landed back here O.K. There was no dinner on the train so I got a bite at the Flag shop at 9:15 after I’d been to chapel and to a lecture.
My eye is all right. I’ve only missed one time of drops - then I wasn’t where they were.
The Christmas spirit is seizing people right
Dearest -
I’m ‘shamed to write on such pathetic paper, but I’m on my way to class and can’t stop for any other.
I landed back here O.K. There was no dinner on the train so I got a bite at the Flag shop at 9:15 after I’d been to chapel and to a lecture.
My eye is all right. I’ve only missed one time of drops - then I wasn’t where they were.
The Christmas spirit is seizing people right
: VCL_Letters_Eldridge-Muriel-Tilden_1913-10_1913-12_050_011_002
and left - Yesterday I wrote over a hundred invitations to my tea - now I have the envelopes to address and stamp!
There’s no real news, except that the party Saturday night was more fun than a goat. It blew a gale last night so that eve had to sheet all the windows to prevent sailing out of them -
Very hastily
Muriel
There’s no real news, except that the party Saturday night was more fun than a goat. It blew a gale last night so that eve had to sheet all the windows to prevent sailing out of them -
Very hastily
Muriel
: VCL_Letters_Eldridge-Muriel-Tilden_1913-10_1913-12_050_011_003
POUGHKEEPSIE
DEC 8
11 30 AM
1913
N.Y.
Mrs. B.O. Tilden
291 Westminster Road
Brooklyn, N.Y.
DEC 8
11 30 AM
1913
N.Y.
Mrs. B.O. Tilden
291 Westminster Road
Brooklyn, N.Y.
