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1902-02-14T00:00:01Z-1902-02-14T23:59:59Z
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VC 1905
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vassar:56363,Box 13; VCL_Letters_Shipp-Margaret-M_1902-02_013_007
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: VCL_Letters_Shipp-Margaret-M_1902-02_013_007_001
Vassar Feb 14, 1902
Dearest daddykins,
I have just gotten a valentine from sister which is too cute for sense, but blease hasten to inform her that I has not “learnt to love another.” The one she sent Polly is perfectly killing and Polly liked it ever and ever so much. I got likewise
Dearest daddykins,
I have just gotten a valentine from sister which is too cute for sense, but blease hasten to inform her that I has not “learnt to love another.” The one she sent Polly is perfectly killing and Polly liked it ever and ever so much. I got likewise
: VCL_Letters_Shipp-Margaret-M_1902-02_013_007_002
programs of the dramatic club play. How fine it must have been. I wish I could have seen Mr Griffiths in it. I’ll bet you he was splendid! And the high and mighty Booth too.
Pretty soon, on Washington’s birthday we are going to have a grand celebration. There is to be one of the four plays which are given each year at Vassar, and every
Pretty soon, on Washington’s birthday we are going to have a grand celebration. There is to be one of the four plays which are given each year at Vassar, and every
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body has to dress in colonial costume and go that way. I want sister to please send me that little blue silk waist with the white satin front which she had in a play when she was a child, and if she can, match it in some in inexpensive material and have an old fashioned shirt made for me like this -- with a sort of puffy doodle busuae at the top. If she can’t, let me know and I’ll have it made here. I know the waist is soiled but I can cover the spots up with a tissue , and it will be all right. We’ll have lots of fun I guess. Margaret Starr is going to wear her grandmother’s wedding dress!
Well, I have to study now as usual so this epistle will have to come to an end. How do you feel now-a-days? You haven’t written me for ages!
Well, I have to study now as usual so this epistle will have to come to an end. How do you feel now-a-days? You haven’t written me for ages!
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Fare thee well with slews of love from Peggy
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INDIANAPOLIS, IND. RECEIVED
FEB 15 430PM ‘02’
FEB 15 430PM ‘02’
