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1904-10-11T00:00:01Z-1904-10-11T23:59:59Z
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Tuesday afternoon
Dearest May Louise
It’s sort of hard for me to picture my little family and its belongings in the tiny house you describe, but I think it sounds very attractive. You can fix up little rooms much more satisfactorily usually than big ones, and as to the electric lights etc! How scrumptious! I’m so attached to my room this year that I know I’ll never be happy again
Dearest May Louise
It’s sort of hard for me to picture my little family and its belongings in the tiny house you describe, but I think it sounds very attractive. You can fix up little rooms much more satisfactorily usually than big ones, and as to the electric lights etc! How scrumptious! I’m so attached to my room this year that I know I’ll never be happy again
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without a tiny green apartment just like it. But do, above all things, get moved in time to come to New York. If you are to begin next week you surely will be settled enough by the first of November. Betty says “Tell her I want her to come!”
To day is the first really clear day there has been for a week and the first in that time that I’ve felt the least bit energetic, but Betty and I after luncheon took a lovely walk, and then rowed
To day is the first really clear day there has been for a week and the first in that time that I’ve felt the least bit energetic, but Betty and I after luncheon took a lovely walk, and then rowed
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lake for a while. We can see the lake from our window and it is like a rainbow with the reflections of the trees -- I never saw such gorgeous coloring as there is here now. Then there is a chipmonk[chipmunk] that lives in the ivy on the wall outside and he comes and sits on our window sill and looks in. I’ve not played tennis yet because the courts are reserved always for a few weeks in the fall, for the annual tennis tournament, but I’m going to begin as soon as it is over. A week from next Saturday we go to Mohonk and the day before is the Senior Parlor Opening. Elizabeth Goodrich is going with me in the afternoon. She is the highest officer in the Sophomore class, secretary of the Student’s Association. I knew her at Roxmore last year. SHe is an awfully fine girl. Then of course Miss Mann is going with me in the evening. She took lunch with Elsie and me at the Inn to day and she was telling us about an experience she had in New York last week. It seems that
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two years ago she got her shoulder dislocated in a trolly car accident in New York, and one of her friends, a lawyer, urged her to sue the company which she did, and has ever since been scared to death at the thought of having to appear in court. Well, after two or three false alarms she at last got called to New York last Wednesday. She arrived in Court in time to hear tried a case similar to her own in which a man who had been injured was sueing the street
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car company, and the first thing the lawyer for the company did was to point to the plaintiff and say “Now I ask you all, does he look sick? Look at his ruddy cheeks.” Miss Mann said she turned cold and had a vision of having to go through the same sort of thing herself! -- But fortunately there was a compromise in her case, and she got the money.
While I think of it, let me make a list of the things I left behind me that I’d like
While I think of it, let me make a list of the things I left behind me that I’d like
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you to bring with you when you come.
(1) The afgan that I had here last winter
(2) My little black napkin ring!
(3) Some wash cloths marked with my name
(4) My General Joy program if you have found it.
(5) My party cape if you think it’s with while having it cleaned. If not, your black velvet cape -- I find it’s absolutely necessary to have something to wear to chapel that won’t muss your light dresses.
Sunday morning tho Rev. Charles Cuthbart Hall of Brooklyn preached a splendid sermon in chapel. We walked all afternoon and had a fudge party at night -- Frances, Nancy Hopson who by the way is a little dear, Kath and Bob, Ruth, Betty and I. Frances is crazy about Ruth and Betty, and vice versa.
DId I tell you that I’d gotten a white pompom and put it on the black hat? It looks awfully pretty. I have to go to my laundress now after some clothes, so I’ll
(1) The afgan that I had here last winter
(2) My little black napkin ring!
(3) Some wash cloths marked with my name
(4) My General Joy program if you have found it.
(5) My party cape if you think it’s with while having it cleaned. If not, your black velvet cape -- I find it’s absolutely necessary to have something to wear to chapel that won’t muss your light dresses.
Sunday morning tho Rev. Charles Cuthbart Hall of Brooklyn preached a splendid sermon in chapel. We walked all afternoon and had a fudge party at night -- Frances, Nancy Hopson who by the way is a little dear, Kath and Bob, Ruth, Betty and I. Frances is crazy about Ruth and Betty, and vice versa.
DId I tell you that I’d gotten a white pompom and put it on the black hat? It looks awfully pretty. I have to go to my laundress now after some clothes, so I’ll
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finish later. +++
The first hall play is going to be on the fifth of November. What Joy if you could be here for that! It’s a secret so you mustn't tell, but its going to be The Little Minister and the best actress we have is to be Babbie -- she’ll do it just as charmingly as Mand Adams I’m sure.
Betty and Nan have just gotten a box from home filled with clothes, but also with boxes of home-made candy, and huge
The first hall play is going to be on the fifth of November. What Joy if you could be here for that! It’s a secret so you mustn't tell, but its going to be The Little Minister and the best actress we have is to be Babbie -- she’ll do it just as charmingly as Mand Adams I’m sure.
Betty and Nan have just gotten a box from home filled with clothes, but also with boxes of home-made candy, and huge
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juicy, red apples! My pristine appetite has returned with being out doors so much, and we certainly have had very good things to eat in Main so far -- as good as in Lathrop last year. Our table is in the front of the dining-room, right under Matthew Vassar’s picture. It’s very nice not to have to walk the whole length of that huge place as some of the girls have to do.
Did dad ever get a
Did dad ever get a
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receipt from Miss Hoskins for the five dollars I left at her house? You aren’t going to leave all our furniture to the ravages of Jack Fred [Allie] and Lucy are you? Oh I think it’s such fun to fix up a new place. How big is the kitchen? If there are only three bedrooms I spose you ‘an me’ll have to live together. Reckon that downstairs there might be a parlor, a dining room and a kitchen. Is there an attic? Which we could stow Pearl away aloft or in the laundry.
Six rooms and a bath and a laundry in the basement --
Yo ho, ho, and a bottle of rum!
Well, well, such is life. I’ve got to do some studying now so farewell
Slews of love
Peg.
Six rooms and a bath and a laundry in the basement --
Yo ho, ho, and a bottle of rum!
Well, well, such is life. I’ve got to do some studying now so farewell
Slews of love
Peg.
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I’m so glad you didn’t go to the Delano!!!
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POUGHKEEPSIE, OCT 12 1045 1904 N.Y.
Miss May Louise Shipp
1010 North Delaware Street
Indianapolis
Indiana
New and smaller house - Plans for Mohonk - Mann
Miss May Louise Shipp
1010 North Delaware Street
Indianapolis
Indiana
New and smaller house - Plans for Mohonk - Mann
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INDIANAPOLIS, IND. OCT 12 1230PM 1904
