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March 13, 1921
Dear Mother, Father, and Pete:
I am sorry that I did not have time to write more yesterday, but I had such a splitting headache all afternoon that I was lying down and I did not realize the time until the last minutes. I must have inhaled some deadly gas or something crazy in lab yesterday morning, because I left the place without the slightest traces of a headache. That is where my good intentions of working all yesterday afternoon went.
I enjoyed Second Hall very much last night. Please return the program, Lester. Nan was wonderful. Edie Meiser certainly has more than amateur talent. I don't see how anyone with her remarkable talent could resist going on the stage. Ruth Bransten as Gaffer was rotten. It was impossible to understand a thing she said. She made nothing out of the part. It was a hard part, but still, she might have done a great deal more with it.
This Second Hall celebration is lots more festive than last year. There are enough guests to make one think that it is prom time. I hope this gay and warm spring weather we are having does not forecast a correspondingly warm summer.
I saw your friend Ray Purdy last night, Lester. I was standing on the steps of Students' after the play waiting for someone to come out, and I saw Carolyn Bailey come out with a man. Naturally I looked twice to see what sort of a looking guest she had, and I thought his face seemed familiar. They stopped about ten feet away from me, and started to talk to some lady. Then i heard another girl call him by his first name, and introduce "Mr. Purdy". He seems to be travelling about the country, all right. He was holding a regular reception.
I cut chapel this morning to work. I have an awful lot to do before next week. i still have that awful chem paper to study for, and some debate reading to do. I have read so little for debate in the last two weeks, that I feel very guilty.
I hope you are beginning to feel better, Mother. Do you expect to be out of the hospital soon?
Love,
Fannie
Mother: Is Miss Alice coming Easter vacation? If so, should I try to get a gingham dress or anything in New York Friday afternoon instead of going out to Aunt Bessie!?
Dear Mother, Father, and Pete:
I am sorry that I did not have time to write more yesterday, but I had such a splitting headache all afternoon that I was lying down and I did not realize the time until the last minutes. I must have inhaled some deadly gas or something crazy in lab yesterday morning, because I left the place without the slightest traces of a headache. That is where my good intentions of working all yesterday afternoon went.
I enjoyed Second Hall very much last night. Please return the program, Lester. Nan was wonderful. Edie Meiser certainly has more than amateur talent. I don't see how anyone with her remarkable talent could resist going on the stage. Ruth Bransten as Gaffer was rotten. It was impossible to understand a thing she said. She made nothing out of the part. It was a hard part, but still, she might have done a great deal more with it.
This Second Hall celebration is lots more festive than last year. There are enough guests to make one think that it is prom time. I hope this gay and warm spring weather we are having does not forecast a correspondingly warm summer.
I saw your friend Ray Purdy last night, Lester. I was standing on the steps of Students' after the play waiting for someone to come out, and I saw Carolyn Bailey come out with a man. Naturally I looked twice to see what sort of a looking guest she had, and I thought his face seemed familiar. They stopped about ten feet away from me, and started to talk to some lady. Then i heard another girl call him by his first name, and introduce "Mr. Purdy". He seems to be travelling about the country, all right. He was holding a regular reception.
I cut chapel this morning to work. I have an awful lot to do before next week. i still have that awful chem paper to study for, and some debate reading to do. I have read so little for debate in the last two weeks, that I feel very guilty.
I hope you are beginning to feel better, Mother. Do you expect to be out of the hospital soon?
Love,
Fannie
Mother: Is Miss Alice coming Easter vacation? If so, should I try to get a gingham dress or anything in New York Friday afternoon instead of going out to Aunt Bessie!?
