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Shipp, Margaret M. | to Sister, 17 April 1902

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1902-04-17T00:00:01Z-1902-04-17T23:59:59Z
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VC 1905
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vassar:56398,Box 13; VCL_Letters_Shipp-Margaret-M_1902-05_1902-06_013_001
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: VCL_Letters_Shipp-Margaret-M_1902-05_1902-06_013_001_001
Thursday afternoon Apr 17,
Dearest Mamie
I only have a few minutes in which to write to you for I have slews of studying to do.
I got my shirt waists yesterday and they are perfectly lovely! They fit perfectly and are beautifully sewed and look as pretty inside as they do outside. The bull was $1.00 for one, $.85 apiece for the other two, and $.20

 


: VCL_Letters_Shipp-Margaret-M_1902-05_1902-06_013_001_002
for buttons, total $2.90 which considering how stylish and altogether lovely they are, strikes me as being very reasonable.
I heard an interesting lecture on birds t’other day by a Mr Kellog who can imitate bird songs and warbles as wonderfully as Mr Seaton-Thompson imitates the sounds of wild animals. John Burroughs sat in front of me. He is a quaint

 


: VCL_Letters_Shipp-Margaret-M_1902-05_1902-06_013_001_003
looking old gentleman with very white and rather long hair.
Don’t forget to pick the violets in the back yard when they come out. There will be hundreds of them and they’ll be awfully pretty.
Had an interview with Miss Brann last week and she told me some nice things. She said I had done excellent work on the whole, and that I had the qualities of a good writer. That I didn’t always think quite definitely, but that my vocabulary and my way of saying things were all right, and that I had a fine appreciation of the beautiful.
Fare thee well now
Miles of love to you and dad
Peg.

 


: VCL_Letters_Shipp-Margaret-M_1902-05_1902-06_013_001_004
Shirtwaist
John Burroughs
Good writer
POUGHKEEPSIE, N.Y. APR 17 530P 1902 N.Y.
Miss Shipp
1010 N. Delaware St
46 Indianapolis
Indiana

 


: VCL_Letters_Shipp-Margaret-M_1902-05_1902-06_013_001_005
INDIANAPOLIS, IND.
APR 18. 1130PM ‘02