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Shipp, Margaret M. | to Sister, 12 December 1901

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1901-12-12T00:00:01Z-1901-12-12T23:59:59Z
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VC 1905
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vassar:56341,Box 12; VCL_Letters_Shipp-Margaret-M_1901-11_1901-12_012_013
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: VCL_Letters_Shipp-Margaret-M_1901-11_1901-12_012_013_001
Thursday afternoon
Dearest Mamie
Your letters were simply dandy and I was awfully glad to get them. How perfectly horrid Booth must have been the other night. What did Mrs Snow think about the way he acted?
Nothing interesting has happened since I wrote you last except that I took supper with Marie last night, and had a

 


: VCL_Letters_Shipp-Margaret-M_1901-11_1901-12_012_013_002
very nice time. She sends her love to Mrs Snow. I have been very busy doing Christmas shopping, but that fortune I have it all done now. I am so tired just at present that I can hardly sit up, but as I have four recitations tomorrow I suppose I’ll have to go to work.
The snow has all melted and it is warm

 


: VCL_Letters_Shipp-Margaret-M_1901-11_1901-12_012_013_003
and slushy and altogether disgusting. I simply can’t wait to get home! I am so crazy to see you and papa that I don’t know what to do. Just think of all the things we’ll have to talk about!
Well, I have to stop because I’m so tired I can't go one
Farewell
Slews of love
Peggie
I suppose you’ll be getting a new catalogue pretty soon as they are out, -- my name looks very imposing in it.

 


: VCL_Letters_Shipp-Margaret-M_1901-11_1901-12_012_013_004
Booth was horrid at dinner party
POUGHKEEPSIE, DEC 12 530PM 1901 N.Y.
Miss Shipp
1010 N. Del. St.
Indianapolis
Indiana

 


: VCL_Letters_Shipp-Margaret-M_1901-11_1901-12_012_013_005
INDIANAPOLIS, IND. RECEIVED
DEC 14 1 AM ‘01