Content Warning
The Vassar College Archives within the Digital Library include some images, texts, and material items that are racist, xenophobic, or otherwise harmful. The Vassar Libraries have provided descriptive text and additional notes whenever possible to alert Digital Library users to these items. The Engaged Pluralism Initiative Race and Racism in Historical Collections Project Group is working with the library on contextualizing and facilitating community conversations about these materials. For more information see: https://library.vassar.edu/rrhc
Access Control
Date
1902-10-19T00:00:01Z-1902-10-19T23:59:59Z
Abstract
VC 1905
Creator
Transcript file(s)
Subject (Topical)
Details
Member of
Identifier
vassar:56416,Box 13; VCL_Letters_Shipp-Margaret-M_1902-09_1902-10_013_009
Extent
1 item
Format
Type
Rights
For more information about rights and reproduction, visit http://specialcollections.vassar.edu/policies/permissionto.html
: VCL_Letters_Shipp-Margaret-M_1902-09_1902-10_013_009_001
Sunday Oct 19, 1902.
Dearest Mamie
Where is my Sunday letter? And why haven’t I gotten a letter from you in I don’t know how long?
I haven’t a thing to write about. I had Claribel Kahn to dinner with me to day and have just washed my hair. Tuesday I am going to dinner with Nora Taggart. Yesterday I read about seventy pages of a
Dearest Mamie
Where is my Sunday letter? And why haven’t I gotten a letter from you in I don’t know how long?
I haven’t a thing to write about. I had Claribel Kahn to dinner with me to day and have just washed my hair. Tuesday I am going to dinner with Nora Taggart. Yesterday I read about seventy pages of a
: VCL_Letters_Shipp-Margaret-M_1902-09_1902-10_013_009_002
book on Economics by president Hadley of Yale, and it is more interesting than I can say. I am doing this to find out something about labour problems in general before tackling the particular one of the strike. The thing I like about argumentation is that we do everything ourselves. The instructor merely gives a subject to eight girls and they take sides, divide up the subject, and find out
: VCL_Letters_Shipp-Margaret-M_1902-09_1902-10_013_009_003
about it in whatever way they can. The knowledge that the whole class will hear the result of your work, and the wish to have your side win, make your work hard.
Last night M. Starr had some eats and I ate so much that I feel a little headachey to day, so perhaps that is the reason that I did not enjoy Bishop Satarly (can’t spell it) of Washington in chapel this morning, but I didn’t and I thought he looked ridiculous in his bishop’s garb of black, white, red, and orange, and we knelt and rose till I was simply exhausted. I shall go to prayer meeting to night and get some simple religion.
How is daddykins. Give him just slews of love
With love to yourself
Peg.
Last night M. Starr had some eats and I ate so much that I feel a little headachey to day, so perhaps that is the reason that I did not enjoy Bishop Satarly (can’t spell it) of Washington in chapel this morning, but I didn’t and I thought he looked ridiculous in his bishop’s garb of black, white, red, and orange, and we knelt and rose till I was simply exhausted. I shall go to prayer meeting to night and get some simple religion.
How is daddykins. Give him just slews of love
With love to yourself
Peg.
: VCL_Letters_Shipp-Margaret-M_1902-09_1902-10_013_009_004
2nd Edition - Mon. morn.
Here is a letter I’ve just gotten from Hilda, and I think it worthy of her, generous and sincere. I am as sorry as she if there is to be a break in her friendship with Eloise. Eloise in her letter to me asked me if I knew that Hilda had deserted Miss Colgan, and I wrote her a twenty page letter, ignoring the question entirely. It was so
Here is a letter I’ve just gotten from Hilda, and I think it worthy of her, generous and sincere. I am as sorry as she if there is to be a break in her friendship with Eloise. Eloise in her letter to me asked me if I knew that Hilda had deserted Miss Colgan, and I wrote her a twenty page letter, ignoring the question entirely. It was so
: VCL_Letters_Shipp-Margaret-M_1902-09_1902-10_013_009_005
plainly asked and so plainly not answered that I don’t know whether I was wise or not. It’s a pity Miss Colgan doesn’t see that it would be better for herself in the end if she kept still. I’m afraid she’ll get everyone down on Hilda, and make any number of people unhappy. I’d like to tell her what I think of her.
Send Hilda’s letter
Send Hilda’s letter
: VCL_Letters_Shipp-Margaret-M_1902-09_1902-10_013_009_006
back. I just got yours and am awfully glad you had such a good time at the house show
Farewell
Peg.
Farewell
Peg.
: VCL_Letters_Shipp-Margaret-M_1902-09_1902-10_013_009_007
Here is a verse of Ruth’s apropos of a debate on “Railroads” which she is to lead next Friday.
When girls go home for Christmas vacation
The railroads give them a rebate
But when they go to argumentation
The railroads give them a debate.
And here is another of hers, a parody on the song called “On a Sunday afternoon” -- over.
When girls go home for Christmas vacation
The railroads give them a rebate
But when they go to argumentation
The railroads give them a debate.
And here is another of hers, a parody on the song called “On a Sunday afternoon” -- over.
: VCL_Letters_Shipp-Margaret-M_1902-09_1902-10_013_009_008
On next Friday afternoon
On next Friday afternoon
Would I were in Greenland or far away
In Africa’s forests or Hudson’s Bay --
On next Friday afternoon
You will see this maiden swoon!
Not a thought in my head,
And I’ll wish I were dead,
On next Friday afternoon.
On next Friday afternoon
Would I were in Greenland or far away
In Africa’s forests or Hudson’s Bay --
On next Friday afternoon
You will see this maiden swoon!
Not a thought in my head,
And I’ll wish I were dead,
On next Friday afternoon.
: VCL_Letters_Shipp-Margaret-M_1902-09_1902-10_013_009_009
Here is a verse written by Ruth’s sixteen year old sister which I think is worthy of Edward Leat: --
I knew a young person at noontide
Who in a large pudding her spoon plied
A most terrible pain
Drove her nearly insane
And in a hospital she soon died.
I knew a young person at noontide
Who in a large pudding her spoon plied
A most terrible pain
Drove her nearly insane
And in a hospital she soon died.
: VCL_Letters_Shipp-Margaret-M_1902-09_1902-10_013_009_010
Penny and C Kahn, Nora Taggart
Eloise + Hilda + Miss Colgan
OCT 19 - 1902
POUGHKEEPSIE, N.Y. OCT 20 5[PM] 1902
Miss Shipp
1010 N. Delaware St
Indianapolis
Indiana
Eloise + Hilda + Miss Colgan
OCT 19 - 1902
POUGHKEEPSIE, N.Y. OCT 20 5[PM] 1902
Miss Shipp
1010 N. Delaware St
Indianapolis
Indiana
: VCL_Letters_Shipp-Margaret-M_1902-09_1902-10_013_009_011
INDIANAPOLIS, IND. OCT 21 11-PM 1902
