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November 1901
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: VCLLettersAdamsRuth1904086001
Vassar College
Dear Mother:
Thanks ever so much for the money. I am terribly so to trouble you for more but so many things came up just at the end. I have order 1/2 dog pictures and that will be a dollar. The divinity has at last come. I don't understand about it at all. It looks very pretty but I haven't had time to try it out yet. I never was so busy in my life. How everything is to be done I can't imagine. I don't know what fancy work I want. I am
Dear Mother:
Thanks ever so much for the money. I am terribly so to trouble you for more but so many things came up just at the end. I have order 1/2 dog pictures and that will be a dollar. The divinity has at last come. I don't understand about it at all. It looks very pretty but I haven't had time to try it out yet. I never was so busy in my life. How everything is to be done I can't imagine. I don't know what fancy work I want. I am
: VCLLettersAdamsRuth1904086002
sure. What do you mean by the wash for the afghan? Have you got another color to go with the red? What a hard time Ellen has. I want to raise a $1000 dollars this summer, 200 preferred. Do you think I can do it? Have we any settlements in New Haven? Who can I go and talk with for suggestions about a club house we are trying to put up for the maids there? I am on the committee and we are all to go and visit any things of the kind we can and talk with people interested in such things of kind. The conditions of the maids are something terrible. Will tell you more about it later.
Ruth
Ruth
: VCLLettersAdamsRuth1904086003
This was the only bit of paper I could find. I want German novels too. Can't I get books often I get home?
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