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Creator: Aaron, Fannie
Date: May 11 [postmarked 1920-05-17]
Text: Dear Mother. Too late to write. [more] tomorrow. Father called up last night. Love, Fannie May [11-]Mrs. Marcus Aaron, 402 Winebiddle Ave. Pittsburgh Pa.

Creator: Aaron, Fannie
Date: 1921-10-17
Text: 73G FLE 15 COLLECT POUGHKEEPSIE NY 1004A OCT 17 1921 MRS MARCUS AARON 402 SOUTH WINEBIDDLE AVE PITTSBURGH PENN PLEASE WIRE FOR FEW DAYS ABOUT FATHER FLAD I DID NOT KNOW BEFOREHAND LOVE FANNIE 1121A

Creator: Aaron, Fannie
Date: 2/28/19
Text: Feb 28, 1919 Dear Mother, There is nothing new that I know of. I started my loaf today, also finished my sweater, ex-cept for using up oen side and making the white collar. I also type-wrote a copy of my speech for Dr. [Gerweg] + for Gdpa. Aaron. That is a peachymachine. I had it on my lap in bed! There was a dance last night. At last I am wise as to when to dress up. There is a dance Tuesday + Thursday, and a big one Saturday. The other nights they [air] their dark clothes. Mrs. Harker ...
Show moreFeb 28, 1919 Dear Mother, There is nothing new that I know of. I started my loaf today, also finished my sweater, ex-cept for using up oen side and making the white collar. I also type-wrote a copy of my speech for Dr. [Gerweg] + for Gdpa. Aaron. That is a peachymachine. I had it on my lap in bed! There was a dance last night. At last I am wise as to when to dress up. There is a dance Tuesday + Thursday, and a big one Saturday. The other nights they [air] their dark clothes. Mrs. Harker (younger) asked me to go to the horse-races tomorrow afternoon. That will break the monotony of sitting around. You want to know if I am still afraid of the men. Old Mr Harker asked me how my big brothers here treating me, so it doesn't look as though I am. Love, Fannie
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Creator: Aaron, Fannie
Date: n.d. [postmarked 1921-04-18]
Text: [Mel saw Lester off + got abrte at station 6:30 love, Fan]ALL MESSAGES TAKEN BY THIS COMPANY ARE SUBJECT TO THE FOLLOWING TERMS: To guard against mistakes or delays, the sender of a message should order it REPEATED, that is, telegraphed back to the originating office for comparison. Fof ^IS, one-half the unrepeated message rate is charged in addition. Unless otherwise indicated on its face, THIS IS AN UNREPEATED MESSAGE AND PAID FOB SUCH, in consideration whereof it is agreed between the...
Show more[Mel saw Lester off + got abrte at station 6:30 love, Fan]ALL MESSAGES TAKEN BY THIS COMPANY ARE SUBJECT TO THE FOLLOWING TERMS: To guard against mistakes or delays, the sender of a message should order it REPEATED, that is, telegraphed back to the originating office for comparison. Fof ^IS, one-half the unrepeated message rate is charged in addition. Unless otherwise indicated on its face, THIS IS AN UNREPEATED MESSAGE AND PAID FOB SUCH, in consideration whereof it is agreed between the sender of the message and this Company as follows: 1. The Company shall not be liable for mistakes or delays in the transmission or delivery, or for non-delivery, of any UNREPEATED message, beyond the amount Ifeceived for sending the same; nor for mistakes or delays in the transmission or delivery, or for non-delivery, of any REPEATED message, beyond fifty times the sum received for sending the same, unless specially valued; nor in any case for delays arising from unavoidable interruption in the working of its lines; nor for errors in tdpher or obscure messages. - 2. In any event the Company shall not be liable for damages for any mistakes or delays in the transmission or delivery, or for the non-delivery, of this message, Hrhether caused by the negligence of its servants or otherwise, beyond the sum of FIFTY DOLLARS, at which amount this messago is hereby valued, unless a greater lvalue is stated in writing hereon at the time the message is oSered to the Company for transmission, and an additional sum paid or agreed to be paid based on such value Iquai to one-tenth of one per cent, thereof. 3. The Company is hereby made the agent of the sender, without liability, to forward this message over the lines of any other Company when necessary to reach Ifcs destination. 4. Messages will be delivered free within one-half mile of the Company's ofSce ia towns of 5,000 population or less, and within one mile of such ofSce in other cities $T towns. Beyond these limits the Company does not undertake to make delivery, but will, without liability, at the sender's request, aa his agent and at his expense, Endeavor to contract for him for such delivery at a reasonable price. 5. No responsibility attaches to this Company concerning messages until the same are accepted at one of its transmitting offices; and if a message is sent to such 5>£&ce by one of the Company's messengers, he acts for that purpose as the agent of the sender. 6. The Company will not be liable for damages or statutory penalties in any case where the claim is not presented in writing within sixty days after the message is filed with the Company for transmission. 7. Special terms governing the transmission of messages under the classes of messagi^ enumerated below shall apply to messages in each of such respective classes in addition ^ gU ike forenoing terms. 8. N ^^mploveeof ike Company is authorized ta vary the foregoing. THE WESTERN UNION TELEGRAPH COMPAI^V INCOR»*ORATCO MCWCOMe CARLTON, CLASSES OF SEHVICE fELEGRAIVrS , A full-rate expedited service. jfMIGHT MESSAGES Accepted up to 2.00 a.m. at reduced rates to be sent during the night imd delivered not earlier than the morning of the ensuing business day. Night Messages may at the option of the Tele^aph Company be mailed at destination to the addressees, and the Company shall be deemed to have discharged its obligation in such cases with respect to delivery by mailing such Night Messages at destination,postage prepaid. DAY LETTERS A deferred day service at rates lower than the standard telegram rates as follows: One and one-half tunes the standard Night Xetter rate for the transmission of 50 words or less and one-fifth of the initial rates for each additional 10 words or less. SPECIAL TERMS APPLYING TO DAY LETTERS: In further consideration of the reduced rate for this special "Day lietter" service, the following special, terms in addition to those enumerated above are hereby agreed to: A. Day Letters may be forwarded by the Telegraph Company as a deferred service and the transmission and delivery of such Day Letters is, in all respects, subordinate to the priority of transmission and Öelivei^ of regular telegrams. b. Day Letters shall be written in plain English. Code language fe not permissible. c. This Day Letter may be delivered by the Telegraph Company by telephoning the same to the addressee, and such delivery shall be a ebmplete discharge of the obligation of the Telegraph Company to deliver« D. This Day Letter is received subject to the express understanding and agreement that the Company does not undertake that a Day Letter shall be delivered on the day of its date absolutely and at all events; but that the Company's obligation in this respect is subject to the condition that there shall remain sufficient time for the transmission and delivery of such Day Letter on the day of its date during regular office hours, subject to the priority of the transmission of regular telegrams under the conditions named above. No employee of the Company is authorised to vary the foregoing. NIGHT LETTERS Accepted up to 2.00 a.m. for delivery on the morning of the ensuing business day, at rates still lower than standard night message rates, as follows: The standard telegram rate for 10 words shall be charged for the transmission of 50 words or less, and one-fifth of such standard telegram rate for 10 words shall be charged for each additional ! 0 words or less SPECIAL TERMS APPLYING TO NIGHT LETTERS: ^ In further consideration of the reduced rate for this special "Night Letter'' service, the following special terms in addition to those enumerated above are hereby agreed to: a. Night Letters may at the option of the Telegraph Company be mailed at destination to the addressees, and the Company shall be deemed to have discharged ita obUgation in such cases with respect to delivery by mailing such Night Letters at destination, postage prepaid. b. Night Letters shall be written in plain English. Code language is not permissible. No em/ployee of the Company is authorized to vary the foregoing.Mr. + Mrs. Marcus Aaron 402 S. Winebiddle Ave. Pittsburgh, Pa
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Creator: Aaron, Fannie
Date: 1923-02-23
Text: Friday evening Feb. 23, 1923 Dear Mother: Thanks ever so much for sending specials. I'm glad you didn't write or wire Dr. T. She certainly would have resented it - and I wouldn't have been able to blame her! She doesn't court pneumonia any more than we do. She had expected me to leave this P.M. but I asked her if I couldn't stay till morning. She said I could, but would have to leave in the morning as she promised the room to someone. I've been here a day longer...
Show moreFriday evening Feb. 23, 1923 Dear Mother: Thanks ever so much for sending specials. I'm glad you didn't write or wire Dr. T. She certainly would have resented it - and I wouldn't have been able to blame her! She doesn't court pneumonia any more than we do. She had expected me to leave this P.M. but I asked her if I couldn't stay till morning. She said I could, but would have to leave in the morning as she promised the room to someone. I've been here a day longer than anybody else. Most people want to leave - I envy them their energy!I have practically no cold + only a slight cough left, but, Mother, I feel as though I had been in bed for months. My legs feel almost too heavy to move and I have to force the food down. It is so discouraging. I went to my four classes today. I rested an hour after lunch and came back + went to bed at 6. I just sat through them - I feel as if I were in another world. I have been wondering a lot about coming home, but I'm inclined to think that it is foolish to spend a night on the sleeper while I still have any cold at all and am so weak, And by the time I am better there is no point in coming. As for Atlantic, ordinarily I would think it a fine idea butI feel it is very important for you to stay home now and give your treatment the best possible chance. Besides, I don't want to take you away from Father so soon again. The New York girls practically all go home the day they get out of the [Infirm], but that is the disadvantage of being farther away! The debate squad is to be picked tomorrow. Evan told <th> me today she had intended putting me on without any tryouts even if I hadn't gotten sick. I am the only one thus honored!! I think I shall [debate] in both the league and the Williams debate because it will [fmake] me forget my weary self. And when I am feeling punk my normal lack of self-confidence gets to be almost a disease, and debate is the best way for me to get over it. I mustn't give in to it. I went to Ec Sem. this A.M. + while the girls were giving their reports I simply trembled at the thought of reporting 15 minutes - once a week. Isn't it an affliction to be like that? I don't see why I should. Sometimes I can laugh it off and sometimes it just oppresses me - like tonight, as you have probably guessed. I'm going to the dean's office Monday or Tues. about dropping a course. I wish I could see my way clear to dropping Ec. Sem. butI fear it would be a low trick. It will have to be Tolerance - for wich, incidentally, I have done no work at all up to date. Even so that will save from 5 to 6 hours a week - which is a lot. And I'll just buck up about Ec Sem, + give myself a whipping! I'll stay here at college and do what work I can and get started on debate pretty soon, and try to be patient and not get so discouraged again. I'm getting a tonic. I don't know what it is though. Please stop worrying. I'm sure the illness is all out of me. It's merely great weakness now. Love, Fannie [Way] I [ask] who the pneumonia gentlemen were?
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Creator: Aaron, Fannie
Date: n.d. [postmarked 1923-03-20]
Text: [postmarked 20 March 1923] Dear Mother: Thanks for your congratulations. I'll tell you all about it next week. I haven't time to write it now. I'll either send my trunk before Wednesday and put the material in it or send it in my laundry Wednesday or bring it in my suitcase. I don't want to take up the space in my suitcase if I go to Atlantic. I just wrote to Henrietta. If she can be with me some of the time, I shall go to Atlantic some time Saturday. I want to go to the...
Show more[postmarked 20 March 1923] Dear Mother: Thanks for your congratulations. I'll tell you all about it next week. I haven't time to write it now. I'll either send my trunk before Wednesday and put the material in it or send it in my laundry Wednesday or bring it in my suitcase. I don't want to take up the space in my suitcase if I go to Atlantic. I just wrote to Henrietta. If she can be with me some of the time, I shall go to Atlantic some time Saturday. I want to go to the Foregin Policy Association luncheon and lecture Saturday noon to hear the discussion of the Ruhn question. They always have splendid speakers. Three of us are going. I don't want Aunt Bessie for any shopping. She has rotten taste, and I don't care to be dependent on her or have to thank her or anybody else. I shall attend to the shoes Saturday morning, according to my present plans. If I don't go to Atlantic, I'll come home Saturday night. Find out from Marse if I can go to his sweater place alone and let me know immediately.I tried all my summer dresses on this afternoon. They all look all right, but seven need lengthening. I shall need Miss Lendl then to lengthen two satin slips and seven dresses. All will be easy to lengthen except the blue voile. I should also like her to put new red cluffs on my blue goregette with the red, if possible. I'll attend to all that myself. Two days of her time will be ample. I may send a few of the dresses in my laundry, but don't have them washed till they are lengthened as they would only need pressing again. Love, Fannie
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Creator: Aaron, Fannie
Date: [1923-03-27]
Text: 142 MAIN HALL VASSAR COLLEGE POUGHKEEPSIE, N. Y. Dear Mother: I foolishly went to the song—contest this morning-—foolishly, as it resulted in having to go to bed at twelve and stay there till now--seven. I didn't want to miss the "Beggars' Opera" tnnight, and I feel all right again. ‘I hated to miss the bal1~game, but it gouldn t be helped. I'm glad now that I didn't try out for it. Had I made it, I certainly would not have been able to play. Heard Professor...
Show more142 MAIN HALL VASSAR COLLEGE POUGHKEEPSIE, N. Y. Dear Mother: I foolishly went to the song—contest this morning-—foolishly, as it resulted in having to go to bed at twelve and stay there till now--seven. I didn't want to miss the "Beggars' Opera" tnnight, and I feel all right again. ‘I hated to miss the bal1~game, but it gouldn t be helped. I'm glad now that I didn't try out for it. Had I made it, I certainly would not have been able to play. Heard Professor Robert K. Root of Princeton deliver a splendid lecture this morning on "Satire as a Fine Art". Would that we had a few such animated lecturers on our faculty! I also heard Prexie make hsi Founder's Day speech from the porch of his house, on- ly I heard it from the window'seat of my room. It made me very "low" to think that this was the last! Received your wire this A. M, but have definitely gotten this house for you, and that of course will be much nicer than being down down. It is on the same street as McGlynn's, nearer college than MCG. You can walk straight through the gate behind North. 142 MAIN HALL VASSAR COLLEGE POUGHKEZEPSIE, N. Y. You can all have a room apiece, I think. It's as clean as can be. Evan's parents always stay there when they come up. Hope it will suit you. Now for breaking the news to Miss Mullaly. She charges $100 for the entire house Q for all Commencement. That is certainly not too much. You might send Marse's sweaters in the laundry. If they don't suit, I'll return them in the next. If I have them here, then I will know what to get on my way home in N. Y., if they don't suit. What happened about the two I sent back? Ask Marse if it is all right. R. S V. P. Mother, please take care of yourself, now that you are home and have had a rest. I in“ sist thereon! * Please call Lucy up and ask her if she wants me to keep one or two rooms for her at Mullaly's. I'll not speak to Miss M. abcut giving them up until I hear. Don't wire~-a day more or less doens't matter. Love, Fannie i. . . ‘ ,.‘ .-3 .2 r 5%. .r §‘ 5? -: : z =. 7 .5 = 45 . 3 7* 3 v :- : .= w - .r '- ..u,-!— - ~ 43 : 5 * . +. - :1‘: .5‘ 5*“ -é . .5. 5' . .-' - “ ”‘” » '2»-" ii 3 5 ;'“,-g,H_’ , V‘ ,5‘; __ ': ~ .5 .'- » _. .:-:, 5* 5; L. lg. ,;' 5 ,-. ..,.— st’-1, .r ’ = I‘ " ‘= :' r ,«r e r 1 2 = -vx—~‘ ~ -‘ ‘Em .» a‘: ' 1 £2 5. .-F‘:
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Creator: Aaron, Fannie
Date: n.d. [postmarked 1920-01-29]
Text: Dear Pete, I promised to go coasting now, so I have not time to write a letter now. Now that the strain is over, I feel all in. The history was a corker. I'll send it to you, but I want it back. I shall go to N.Y., making the customary Saturday connections. Father will meet me + come back here. So he telegraphed yesterday. Love, FannieMr. M. Lester Aaron, 55 Campbell Hall, Princeton, N.J.

Creator: Aaron, Fannie
Date: 1923-04-08 [?]
Text: [8 Apr 1923?] Dear Pete: I tsalked[sic] it over with Evan, and we concluded that it is highly worth while for me to hear the Penn debate. I can make it without losing much time by leaving Saturday noon. I can read English plays on the train. The others are going Friday. I hate to tell you not to come, but I know you will understand and approve. Do your best to come another week-end early in May. The Heifetz concert was wonderful last night However, we did not get back till after eleven....
Show more[8 Apr 1923?] Dear Pete: I tsalked[sic] it over with Evan, and we concluded that it is highly worth while for me to hear the Penn debate. I can make it without losing much time by leaving Saturday noon. I can read English plays on the train. The others are going Friday. I hate to tell you not to come, but I know you will understand and approve. Do your best to come another week-end early in May. The Heifetz concert was wonderful last night However, we did not get back till after eleven. Consequently I slept till nine-thirty. Took Helen off for a birthday lunch--none too cheerful as she is most decidedly afflicted with the blues. The weather is heavenly, and I am grinding on my Seminar topic. When spring comes, I certainly do get the golf, tennis, and baseball call. Love, Fannie
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Creator: Aaron, Fannie
Date: 10/29/19
Text: Dear Father + Mother [;] I missed out on the book that I wanted [in] the library yesterday, so I shall have to go there immediately after lunch. I may be able to write tonight. Tell and Hattie if she has any good costume to send it to me immediately if it will be here in time for Saturday night. The Sophomore party is Saturday night, + it is masquerade. Otherwise loads new, but I have not time to tell it. Love, Fannie Oct. 29.[this side of card is for address] Mr. and Mrs. Marcus Aaron, 402...
Show moreDear Father + Mother [;] I missed out on the book that I wanted [in] the library yesterday, so I shall have to go there immediately after lunch. I may be able to write tonight. Tell and Hattie if she has any good costume to send it to me immediately if it will be here in time for Saturday night. The Sophomore party is Saturday night, + it is masquerade. Otherwise loads new, but I have not time to tell it. Love, Fannie Oct. 29.[this side of card is for address] Mr. and Mrs. Marcus Aaron, 402 S. Winebiddle Ave., Pittsburgh, Pa.
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Creator: Aaron, Fannie
Date: 1920-01-31, 1921 [?]
Text: Jan 31. 1920 Dear Mother: Have just been talking over our English course for two hours. It was quite bene-ficial. Received your letter from Boston, also yours, Father, from N.Y. mailed in Boston. Am very busy with exams. Studied chem all yesterday afternoon, and forgot it all in a long sleep last night. See you Thursday! Am very busy, as I believe I said before. Lots of snow today. Love, Fannie

Creator: Aaron, Fannie
Date: 1921-03-01
Text: March 1, 1921 Dear Mother: Lucy came over after lunch to tell me that the team was announced. I am first alternate (big compen-sation (?)!) and have to stay at Vassar because the weaker speakers are being kept home and they want a strong alternate at home for them. The senior and two junior alternates are being sent away. The committee <picked> the speakers after the picture was taken <Monday>. At least my being in the infirm didn't spoil my chances of beinga speaker. Lucy...
Show moreMarch 1, 1921 Dear Mother: Lucy came over after lunch to tell me that the team was announced. I am first alternate (big compen-sation (?)!) and have to stay at Vassar because the weaker speakers are being kept home and they want a strong alternate at home for them. The senior and two junior alternates are being sent away. The committee <picked> the speakers after the picture was taken <Monday>. At least my being in the infirm didn't spoil my chances of beinga speaker. Lucy was made a regular member of the committee, so she knows all the dope about the discussion. She said she was so glad that she had had never heard me, so that she didn't have to vote about me. She also said <that> the discussion as to whether to make me or Margaret Ray a speaker was very hot. -Ray is a junior, had the closing speech for the Juniors in class debate, was on soph. debate last year and on the team of the University fo Souther California her freshman year. They finally voted in favor of her on the strength of her extra past experience. Moral! - the advantage of being a junior! Lucy said I had many firm champions, particularly Rachel Higgins, who was charman of Junior Debate. She said the only un-favorable thing she heard was that I present my statis-tics boringly, but somebody promptly set on that and tried to disprove it. [I'll] finish this in another envelope, or it will miss the mail. Am feeling O.K. again, but weak. All additional pain is gone in every connection. Am sitting up dressed in infirm. parlor [Gobah] today after lunch. May get out tomorrow - unless they keep me here to rest. It would not hurtme any if they did. Please do not worry any, for there is nothing to worry about. It is best that they sent me here - but it is all over now. Love, Fannie
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Creator: Aaron, Fannie
Date: n.d. [postmarked 1923-04-26]
Text: 403 davison house vassar college poughkeepsie, n. y. Dear Mother and Father: Much as I appreciate your effort in wriinb to me, Pap, your nice long letter was duly appreciated, Mother. ProM Saturday to Wednesday afternoon with nothing from you is pretty terrible! So I'll show my appreciation by writing immediately, and answering all questions Those that you don't feel any interest in, Mr. Aaron, may be omitted without disturbing the continuity of the letter! Incidentally, I got my...
Show more 403 davison house vassar college poughkeepsie, n. y. Dear Mother and Father: Much as I appreciate your effort in wriinb to me, Pap, your nice long letter was duly appreciated, Mother. ProM Saturday to Wednesday afternoon with nothing from you is pretty terrible! So I'll show my appreciation by writing immediately, and answering all questions Those that you don't feel any interest in, Mr. Aaron, may be omitted without disturbing the continuity of the letter! Incidentally, I got my fist psych topic back with the comment, ^^EEceilent, both in material and organization", I have gotten ^'Excellent" in every quiz in that course but one I don't need any more unionsuits. Thanks just the same. 1 thought I wrote that Dr. F. answered to stop the treatments temporarily, and rpport in a week how I feel. The reporting seems to me to loe entirely useless and unnecessary. HOwever, it takes only a couple of minutes. It die not E case of rush or "forgetting" the spec'ials, I never forget anythiiig! I mall my letters at a different hour from la^t year, and figured that a special i/vould not gain <m time. However, I'll indMge ■ the child! I don't think, in fact, I'm.sure, that I403 davison house vassar college poughkeepsie, n. y. that I wonH be able to bother with packing until after exams, but I think that packing from Tuesday noon until Wednesday noon ought to finish up the job. Last year I did it all in a few hours in the wee steaüil hours of the night,| and three hours Tuesday morning. But this year willbe somewhat more compllated, as I shall have] to a&ul some stuff over to Main. I certainly will be able to leave by Thursday morning, firstl thing. Why not come up Wednesday--I can probablj make it all right. The dress has come—the jumper has not, I was going to send the hav^lt hemm-l ad, but decided to do it myself some time when I am v/asting time talking, with hands folded. It is not a startling success, but will be all right,and it was not expensive. Blether, I sort of thought I would like to have Miss A. (I had not thought of Miss McC, but| I imagine the latter yiou'^d be m^ - -«-esp, ö^i a Plain Suirtwaisu areöB, If 1 can^z plc^ Cite up as I want it--also a ratinee jumperiji made just like my old blue linen| one at home. I know just what kind of ratinee I want--a bi'rgbt colc:^ a '^t-- '^■nd I know I can find the material, but doubt if I could find one ready-made. It will be greaj for golf. That is all I see any sense in having) made. Must you engage thetime now? We know so little about when we will be home.403 davison House vassar college poughkeepsie, n. y. Do you want to take Helen down to Hew York in the car? R. S. V. P. right away. ?/e can do it, if you ^re willing--if we go Thursday. She has a Thursday raorning exam. However, I imagine 1*11 be re .dy to leave before Thursday afternoon and so you would want tm, too. What would you think of staying here an extra half-day and going over to Mohonk? I think you would enjoy it/ Otherwise I know nothing, except that I still have topic nuoiber three to do, and miles and miles of awfully unintelligible BrowMng reading. Oh, yes. I got a note from Phyllis Harman yesterday asking me to go to Torrington,Conn, wherever that may be, to speak to the V. C. Alumnae Association, on something or other. She would tell me what when I came for instructions. I think it is about the Endowment work at college^ They asked to have a speaker sent. I should enjoy the experience if it were at any other time of the year, but I certainly cannot afford the time right now, with work due next Wednesday as the lastpossible date,and volumes of work to do before exams. Moreover, I have many and various reasons for not caring to help the young lady out. Whnevar there is anything worth while to do under Speakers' Bureau, she takes it upon herself to do it herself, and leave all the uninteresting things to other people. Last week-end she was up in Lenox with her room-mate and fell out of a buggy, and seriously damaged the beauty of her face.403 davison house vassar college poughkeepsie, n. y. So now I guess she Is seriously inconvenienced by not being able to mafee the trip herself,and I happen to k ow that she asked a good many others to do it before she asked me. In view of these things, I certainly don't care to go. Yours truly, the Sat. Love, Fannie
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Creator: Aaron, Fannie
Date: 5/28/20
Text: May 28, 1920. Dear arcus, Stell, and Mr. Aaron: (Sole purpose of this salutation is to shack the last mentioned one) Pete, you seem to object so to the excitement afforded by my postcards when I write them in a hurry that I thought I would try this method and see if you approve of it. You seem hard to please. Why did you send it back? I thought it was your economical turn of mind, so that I could use the card again. But it was postmarked, so i feail to get the point. However, don't...
Show moreMay 28, 1920. Dear arcus, Stell, and Mr. Aaron: (Sole purpose of this salutation is to shack the last mentioned one) Pete, you seem to object so to the excitement afforded by my postcards when I write them in a hurry that I thought I would try this method and see if you approve of it. You seem hard to please. Why did you send it back? I thought it was your economical turn of mind, so that I could use the card again. But it was postmarked, so i feail to get the point. However, don't waste time elaborating, as you would be taking away time from the enjoyment of your exams. Are you going to bring the car up here? Just what are you plans, anyhow? I hope you will let me know to where to check my trunk. Or do you only check it to the station at Princeton? It is very hot, but some kind Juniors told me it is cool compared with what it can be sometimes. I manage to keep my room fairly comfortable by keeping the shutters down. The first of my exams, Latin, comes tomorrow. I have English Monday; History, Tuesday; math, Thursday; and French, Friday. I did about two-thirds of my history review today. It takes me just about four times to study as it does normally. I surely am dense and dopy, etc. I spent the rest of the day sleeping. I went over to Assembly Hall late this afternoon to study the map a little. Miss Bourne is always so particular that we should be able to locate all references that I though it might be a good idea to look a few of them up. I then went down to the Lake. It is the first time I have been there this year. It certainly is beautiful around Sunset. The lilacs remind me of Braunschweig ten years ago. Lucy is going down to New York to meet her parents for four days. Her exams came in a bunch at the beginning, and then she has one next Thursday. I think I'll study the lives of Horace, Virgil, and Ovid a bit. After tomorrow may they rest in peace! I am strongly opposed to making dead languages compulsory in college. Now you will both proceed to disagree with me, I know. I think four years is enough for any human being. I haven't seen Bess lately. Pete, I hope you'll have the rabbi from Paterson over for Commencemtn[sic]. I does seem a shame not to give us the privilage of hearing him. Love, [Fannie][enc. w/ 28 May 1920] Miss Fannie Aaron wishes to congratulate Mr. Marcus Aaron on the great addition to his "I. P.-dom" in being elected vice-president of the Board of Public Education of Pittsburgh. It occures to Miss Fannie Aaron that the vice-presidency of said body is only one step removed from the presidency. May Miss Fannie Aaron be permitted to remark that it does not seem so long ago in her little mind that Mr. Marcus Aaron was elected to the more inconspicuous but nevertheless worthy rank of a mere member of the above mentioned illustrious body? And she can recall with equal facility when Mr. Aarcon was elected to member ship in a less local organization, namely the board of education of the Commenwealth of Pennsylvania. Aye, it is indeed a privilege to be the daughter of an I. P.[enc. w 28 May 1920] Mother, I wrote to the bank last week and asked for a statement of my balance. They sent me my cancelled checks. Do I keep them or what? R. S. V. P.
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Creator: Aaron, Fannie
Date: n.d. [postmarked 1922-03-16]
Text: Just had a hard social psych written. 'Current Hist: came today - better late then never! Your letter came, Father? Wired you not to come. 12 hr. day today. Just had a letter from Minerva [Dumbell], of last year's team. Write to me to Barnard c/o Vassar Debate Team. Be careful what you see - I may never get it. Love, FannieIf we win - I'll wire Sent the books yesterday If by unanimous decision " sent all the books. If we lose, " please send bks, etc. Mrs. Marcus Aaron...
Show moreJust had a hard social psych written. 'Current Hist: came today - better late then never! Your letter came, Father? Wired you not to come. 12 hr. day today. Just had a letter from Minerva [Dumbell], of last year's team. Write to me to Barnard c/o Vassar Debate Team. Be careful what you see - I may never get it. Love, FannieIf we win - I'll wire Sent the books yesterday If by unanimous decision " sent all the books. If we lose, " please send bks, etc. Mrs. Marcus Aaron, 402 S. Winebiddle Ave., Pittsburgh, Pa.
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Creator: Aaron, Fannie
Date: 3/3/20
Text: Dear Father + Mother, Nothing new, except that I am very busy for tomorrow. Phyllis + I are to meet tomorrow aft. She is vusy moving on [campus], to [Maiee.] Love, Fannie Mar. 3Mr. + Mrs. Marcus Aaron, c/o Hotel Ambassador Atlantic City, New Jersey

Creator: Aaron, Fannie
Date: 3/11/19
Text: Mar. 11, 1919 Dear Mother, Mr. Hall and Mr. Lawrence left tonight. Mr. Lawrence promised to telephone you if he had time. I rode horseback this morning. Mr. Zies was supposed to be in charge of me, but we went with the crowd from the hotel. The chaperon, or instructess, whichever she is, comes from Denver. She has a cottage across fromMoraine Lodge. Father was sort of nervous, so I got an army saddle, also a gentle horse. It went as fast as I had any desire to go, though, for the first time....
Show moreMar. 11, 1919 Dear Mother, Mr. Hall and Mr. Lawrence left tonight. Mr. Lawrence promised to telephone you if he had time. I rode horseback this morning. Mr. Zies was supposed to be in charge of me, but we went with the crowd from the hotel. The chaperon, or instructess, whichever she is, comes from Denver. She has a cottage across fromMoraine Lodge. Father was sort of nervous, so I got an army saddle, also a gentle horse. It went as fast as I had any desire to go, though, for the first time. We went off from the main road, along an old wagon road. Of course there are no hills, and the only trees are pines. That trip would be much prettier if the dog - wood (?) were in bloom. We were gone a little over an hour and a half. I enjoyed it very much. This afternoonFather's and my com-bined forces beat Mr. and Mrs. Brum-baugh's, but other wise he beat Father. He was playing very well. She is rather nice, but she is a talking-machine that never needs winding up. He is humorous and quite funny, but I do not like him, and haven't since I met him. There was a man in that [<riding> bunch] that reminded me a lot of Dr. [Cudlee], al-though his grammarwas good. He was very talkative, but I cannot say very interesting. When Mr. Zies gallops, you can see feet of daylight between him and his saddle. I am sorry Mr. <Z>Hall left. He is very nice and good-[natured] and doesn't [booz] up. He is quite a diversion from Mr. Well's in - cessant coughing. At least he doesn't call the waitresses up to introduce them to his friends, calling them both by their first names. Love, FannieMy dear Stella - I took the morning off while Fan rode horseback. She had a great time. This afternoon we golfed as usual. Mr. [Grundy wind] me confirming engagement for Monday PM for Philadelphia so I will [leave] Harrisburch at 1 PM after seeing Fan. off on the westbound train. [Since] Lester is so [busy] I feel we should not disturb him at this time especially in [view] of his coming home later in the month. I got my income tax reports [etc] off and I am glad Ihave that off my mind. I am just going to play bridge to be agreeable to make a [4]'hand for our NY friends. Love Marcus
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Creator: Aaron, Fannie
Date: 10/4/19
Text: October 4, 1919. Dear Father and Mother, I am sorry that I could not get time for a letter yesterday. I'll tell you my programme and I think you will see why. I got up in time for breakfast, as usual. At nine o'clock, after some of that "Morgen Stunde Hat Gold im Munde" business, I went over to the gym for my physical examination. They give all sorts of strength tests, examine your arches, back, etc. She told me to walk more on the outside of feet, and my arches would...
Show moreOctober 4, 1919. Dear Father and Mother, I am sorry that I could not get time for a letter yesterday. I'll tell you my programme and I think you will see why. I got up in time for breakfast, as usual. At nine o'clock, after some of that "Morgen Stunde Hat Gold im Munde" business, I went over to the gym for my physical examination. They give all sorts of strength tests, examine your arches, back, etc. She told me to walk more on the outside of feet, and my arches would never hurt me. I weigh one hundred and forty-one pounds without my clothes. I bet I made the record of the Freshman class. She also remembered what you had told her, but I did not need her assistance. I took the swimming test, dressed, and made a ninethirty class a good distance away. I don t think I'll do much swimming in that pool, you get dizzy turning the corners. The water was a good temperature, though. All you have to do in the test is to swim around the pool, and of course it is a cinch. So I passed off my test sooner than the Old Man did. In Hygiene we got a lecture from Miss Ballentine on the importance of Physical Education. She read her lecture and did not realize how fast she was going. She said she would tell us whenever there was something she wanted us to take down. And then she would go so fast that whenever she said, "Take this down" the whole place would start to roar. At the beginning of the fifth hour I reported to Miss White for the French exam. She left me in her room with the exam, and told me to take two hours to two and a half. It was the fourth year part of the 1919 Comprehensive exam, except that she changed the subject of the composition to be written. She first gave me, "Characteristics of Victor Hugo's Style", or, "Characteristics of the Classic Theater". Then she told me I could write on the characteristics of any author I had read recently, I took that. If it had been a board exam, I should say that I got away with between eighty and ninety, but she did not seem so keen about my doing it, so I don't know how she will mark it. I hope I will know the result before Pete comes, as I would like to talk over with him which course to take. It was a hot, Eastern afternoon, so I was pretty well used up when I left the exam. I had been trying several different times to get in touch with the girl with whom I was to play tennis. When I didn't have classes, she did. Finally we arranged for Thursday afternoon, and then it rained. So when I got back from the exam, I found a note from her on my door. I went over for her, and by the time we had waited for a court, it was after five. We decided to play it out. The courts were still slippery from the rain. She was at camp this summer, and was in dandy practice. Consequently it made me play my best. I won the first set, 6-4. She won the second, 7-5, and the last, 6-4. There washardly a game that was not a deuce game. We were both so boiling and hot and hungry that we did not know what we were doing toward the end. So If I head won it would have been pure luck, and her winning on one point was pure luck. I have never played so hard, nor had as much fun out of it. We did not have our watches, and it developed to our dismay that played, till 6:50. She went to chapel as hot as she was but I could not because I had to get ready for Temple, and besides which that is a dandy way of catching Pneumonia. So I came back and had a mad chase to get ready to meet the rest of the Vassar Contingent to the most disorderly place I have seen for a good while. Helen, Ruth Franklin, their roommate Eleanor Harris and a Christian friend of hers, Lucy, Henrietta Seitner, Mildred Gutwillig, Jim Rosenfeld's cousin, and I went. We got seats in back near the door, thank goodness. It was the most reform of the three congregations here, thatis, the men and women sit together. If you enter a place like that with any thoughtful feeling at all, it is soon knocked out of you. There were two young men in back of us who were, making fun of the rabbi the whole time. Finally one said, "say, if that fellow makes us stand again, I am going to strike". Talking with the neighbors was just the same as in Europe. Every now and then there were a few English sentences, and then, after we had been there about an hour and a quarter, came the English sermon. The rabbi announced that he would like some of the men to go back and close the doors to keep the racket out, and also if people wanted to leave, to leave then or stay through the sermon. They should stay through or get out. Whereupon almost all the men jumped up to guard the doors and we were practically locked in. It reminded me of that Alsatian at Squeeky Bob's who talked about the Hebrew fit. I honestly believe that whole sermon, which last twenty minutes, was two sentences. I thought only the Latin authors could do that. The man read the sermon and did not look up a single time. There was a man sitting next to Henrietta Seitner who rather pitied us because we did not show any ease at following the service. He informed her that he had gone four years to the University of Moscow, and then to college in England. His comments were really more interesting than the service. He said some of the tallises were more elaborate than others. In olden times the educated, got the fancy ones. Now you buy them--an expressman could get a fancy one. I think he was talking as loud as the rabbi. He did not pay one speck of attention to what was going on except to look at the book every now and then and then tell us that the rabbi was skipping. He had a Christian friend with him and he got into a religious argument with him, which was also very interesting. The sermon was on duty, but it was not what I should call deep or brainy. Ruth Franklin has a friend in town whom we met afterwards. I think they are the only Reform people in Poughkeepsie. She said, I had only one religious thought all evening, and that was pity for you poor girls." Well, I learned one thing anyhow. I expect to be here four years, and I don't expect to go to Temple in Poughkeepsie again.You see I missed my dinner, so when I got back I was glad enough to join in the party across the hall. A few cookies don't go very far. I slept till nine this morning, and then proceeded to write this letter. Love, [Fannie]
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Creator: Aaron, Fannie
Date: 3/1/19
Text: Mar. 1, 1919 Dear Mother, I thought you would rather get a pecilled letter than see ink on my clothes when we get home. I banged the type-writer all morning and went to the horse show with both Mrs. Harkers this afternoon. The program is downstairs,so I'll send it tomorrow. They surely were lively, good looking horses. There was one little fat kid on a wagon horse that looked like your friend Charlie, and every time he came around the people would start to laugh. [Estes] Pack horses...
Show moreMar. 1, 1919 Dear Mother, I thought you would rather get a pecilled letter than see ink on my clothes when we get home. I banged the type-writer all morning and went to the horse show with both Mrs. Harkers this afternoon. The program is downstairs,so I'll send it tomorrow. They surely were lively, good looking horses. There was one little fat kid on a wagon horse that looked like your friend Charlie, and every time he came around the people would start to laugh. [Estes] Pack horses would be out of place here. Otherwise nothing new. Ah yes! I am making the collarof my sweater. Love, FannieHe made a peach the other night, but the waitress took it away. She is not so good: the only thing that is O.K. is the coloring PINEHURST, N. C. - - Luncheon - - Lamb ^roth with Rice Spiced Watermelon Hot or Cold Bouillon Sweet Mixed Pickles Corn Meal Mush and Milk Broiled Finnan Haddie Maitre d' Hotel Potato Chips Broiled Sirloin Steak Creamed Chicken with Bacon Spanish Scrambled Eggs Roast Ham, Champagne Sauce Boiled Potatoes Mashed Turnips French Fried Potatoes Shelled Beans Steamed Rice Cold— Roast Beef Turkey Lamb Corned Beef Ham Pickled Lamb Tongues Pickled Pigs Feet Lettuce Hearts Watercress Ox Tongue Sardinees Bologna Sardines Mayonnaise Pineapple Pie Corn Starch Pudding with Cream Assorted Cake Apricot Sherbet Preserved Cherries American Cheese Tea Neufchatel Cheese JUoffee Milk florliek's Malted Milk Hot RoUs Cocoa Breakfast, 7.30 to 9.30. Lunch, 12.30 ro 2.00. Dinner. 6.30 to 8.00. Sundays—Breakfast, 8.00 to 1^.80. Dinner, 1.00 to 2.30. Supper, 6.30 to 8.00 February 26 1910 Lc^t-x^/ Iß^iAf /f/f]
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Creator: Aaron, Fannie
Date: 3/13/19
Text: Mar. 13. 1919 Dear Mother, We had 36 holes today, starting at 8:30. The reason for writing now is that there is fifteen minutes wait for tea. We played with a man named [Harrie] this morning. He comes from Wisconsin. Father has met him here be-fore. He is very nice. I was playing terribly, so badly that I didn't even try to use a driver. He persuaded me to, and, after the first shot with the oldwooden club, I got one peachy shot after the other. Then my game improved. This afternoon I...
Show moreMar. 13. 1919 Dear Mother, We had 36 holes today, starting at 8:30. The reason for writing now is that there is fifteen minutes wait for tea. We played with a man named [Harrie] this morning. He comes from Wisconsin. Father has met him here be-fore. He is very nice. I was playing terribly, so badly that I didn't even try to use a driver. He persuaded me to, and, after the first shot with the oldwooden club, I got one peachy shot after the other. Then my game improved. This afternoon I started out very well. Then on the elbow hole, the one I got a three on the other day. I got in the woods and deep in the trap, and ended up with an eleven. I butchered some more holes, so that I had 108 where I should have had 98 very easily. Nevertheless I played the best golf I have ever played. Gdpa. sent me a clipping recording Elaine Rosenthal's best score, 86. Me for some tea. Love, FannieI forgot to tell you that on the last holes plainly visible from the club-porch, I got a wonderful drive, an approach, a long putt; and a lot of applause frp, s[ectators on the club-porch.My dear Stella - We got in early from our afternoon round - I made a 88. [Hurrah!] Fan wants tea so we must [till] 430 when they serve it gratis. [Three more] days + we begin our hike [homeward]. I think I told you in my yesterdays latter but I am not sure that Fannie [will] come home from Harrisburgh while I keep my engagement at Phila. We will not interfere with Lester You may write Friday to The Raleigh and on Sunday [/y] The State Board of Education. Tonight I go to a golf [dinner] as Mr. Wells guest. Fan [dont] mind being alone at dinner after which she will finish her typewriting. + get that off her mind. She is doing it [very nicely] Love + kisses Marcus
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Creator: Aaron, Fannie
Date: 3/3/19
Text: Mar 3, 1919 Dear Mother, Yesterday afternoon father and I followed four professionals around for four holes. They weren't first class profession-als but it was very interesting neverthe-less. They surely had some gallery. I finished mysweater, collar and all, and wore it today. Father surely seems to like it, because he said so without my asking. I typewrite this morning - incidentally I woke up at ten o'clock too late for breakfast. This afternoon Father and Mr. Win-tringer + I...
Show moreMar 3, 1919 Dear Mother, Yesterday afternoon father and I followed four professionals around for four holes. They weren't first class profession-als but it was very interesting neverthe-less. They surely had some gallery. I finished mysweater, collar and all, and wore it today. Father surely seems to like it, because he said so without my asking. I typewrite this morning - incidentally I woke up at ten o'clock too late for breakfast. This afternoon Father and Mr. Win-tringer + I played. I made 110 on No. 1 course. That is mybest score up to date and with it all I lost two shots in a bunker-trap and two by driving a ball into the water. I started out miser-ably. My driving was off. Something is always off. Mr. Wells informed me that I look like + resemble Elaine Rosenthal. I hope someday my game willresemble hers. That concerns me much more. Mr. Hall says it will be better when I am her age. You should hear them jolly me! I am glad I have sense enough not to believe them. Father + Mr. W. played some more, but I thought, in view of my vacation, I had better quite after eighteen, so I came back and slept an hour beforedinner. My eight year old colored caddy [found] a cigar on the tee. His eyes got as big as saucers and he showed it to father. Father said, "Don't you smoke?" He said, "No, sah, not yet." "You don't chew, do you?" Sometimes" What do you chew?" "Tobacco." Sure enough later on he was chewing away and spitting like a veteran. He told me he was going to give the cigar to his eleven year old brother who smokes! I got a letter from Grandpa tonight informing me that [Marse] had put my speech away somewhere in a drawer and he had just come across it. I had typewritten a copy, but not sent it yet. I'll play with Mrs. Brumbaugh tomorrow if it suits her. I'd like to [trim] her - the governor's wife. ha ha! Mr. Wintringer is awfully nice I like him since he stopped calling me Miss Fannie a la kitchen me-chanic.Otherwise nothing new. Love, Fannie
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Creator: Aaron, Fannie
Date: 10/24/19
Text: Dear Mother and Pete: There is nothing new to report today. Your letter saying that Father would be here Saturday and Sunday came in the afternoon yesterday. I had practically concluded that he was not coming. So I have a real afternoon's work this afternoon to prepare four subjects for Monday and the other half of my history topic. Nothing new or interesting happened in classes today. When i got back from the library last night at nine-thirty there was a notice on my door that we were...
Show moreDear Mother and Pete: There is nothing new to report today. Your letter saying that Father would be here Saturday and Sunday came in the afternoon yesterday. I had practically concluded that he was not coming. So I have a real afternoon's work this afternoon to prepare four subjects for Monday and the other half of my history topic. Nothing new or interesting happened in classes today. When i got back from the library last night at nine-thirty there was a notice on my door that we were to have a group meeting at nine thirty. That is the way Students Association transacts business. I went to the meeting. It lasted till ten-thirty. That is the way things go when you want to get a lot of work done the next day. I just recovered from my daily nap. It takes too much time. I discovered a few days ago that it was Ethel Litchfield who sang a solo in chapel last Sunday. I take back what I said about her not being good-looking. Do you insist on specials, Mother, too? Love, [Fannie]
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Creator: Aaron, Fannie
Date: n.d. [postmarked 1920-10-09]
Text: [postmarked 9 oct 1920] Dear Mother: My interview with Dr. Baldwin was not particularly satisfactory. Briefly, I asked her whether she uses a disinfectant on the cotton first. She said she did, but it is beyond me how she does, or rather, when she puts it there. She ways that she makes up bottles of 25% solution of argyrol in the infirmary, because that is what she uses for other purposes there. Then, when she gives me the treatment, (immediately before putting the argyrol into the catheter)...
Show more[postmarked 9 oct 1920] Dear Mother: My interview with Dr. Baldwin was not particularly satisfactory. Briefly, I asked her whether she uses a disinfectant on the cotton first. She said she did, but it is beyond me how she does, or rather, when she puts it there. She ways that she makes up bottles of 25% solution of argyrol in the infirmary, because that is what she uses for other purposes there. Then, when she gives me the treatment, (immediately before putting the argyrol into the catheter) she dilutes the 25% to 10%). The letter which I brought from home told her to boil the catheter every time). She said that even when everything is sterile and disinfected, there is no guarantee that an infection cannot get into the bladder, because there is no way of proving whether so-called sterile things really are sterile, and that if I were to get another infection into my bladder which is already infected, she would not consider it her fault or the fault of the one giving the treatment. She says she has seen that happen in hospitals even when every precaution has been taken, and probably Dr. Z. has seen it, too. She said it had never happened to anyone that she has treated as yet though. She said that that is a risk which the person receiving this sort of treatment risks. R. S. V. P. about all this. I have felt as good for the last four days as I did when I left home.I have written to Fannie several times referring to her blood for [treatment] and [suggesting] that she [hooks] up with you the [Monday in which Dr Z plans upon slingskin of the etc etc From the little she has said in reply] I imagine she has [hesitated about talking to you and I am nervous writing direct feeling soon that you will understand that if I lay under supheses upon what you be already doing without any suggestion from me, it is because of my over anxiety concerning Fannie. Thats a way mothers have said I know you will make allowances for my nervousness about her. I am always so fearful of further infection and while I know that seems] when all precautions are used there is still a [minimum] of danger, we want to keep the possibility to the minimum [dont we]. Dr. Z was always [anxous that] [Express appreciation] - happy to feel she is her charge etc.
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Creator: Aaron, Fannie
Date: 11/10/19
Text: November 10, 1919. Dear Mother, Father, and Pete: Every time I write the date, I notice how much nearer it is to next Saturday. I am really looking forward to it very anxiously. Dr. T. says every minute you work that you are tired is wasted time. Consequently I left the library a short time ago, and decided to rest a bit before the class meeting. I just got a new ribbon. I must do something wrong with it--it certainly ought to write better[?] [???] [???]. I almost fell over when we got our...
Show moreNovember 10, 1919. Dear Mother, Father, and Pete: Every time I write the date, I notice how much nearer it is to next Saturday. I am really looking forward to it very anxiously. Dr. T. says every minute you work that you are tired is wasted time. Consequently I left the library a short time ago, and decided to rest a bit before the class meeting. I just got a new ribbon. I must do something wrong with it--it certainly ought to write better[?] [???] [???]. I almost fell over when we got our sight translation exam papers back--I fully expected a D at the most. You can imagine what I felt like when she announced that I had B plus, the highest mark in the class and the only one. There were several B's, and quite a few C's. She gave an A minus in her other class. We have some more impossible French assignments, and I started to work ahead for Thursday, but I got too tired. I wanted to work ahead for the end of the week, so that I can devote all Thursday to Monday's work. All the Freshmen around here tell me that there is no feeling worse than getting back to college after you first week-end and they are all sympathizing with me already. I ordered a picture of the last scene of the Junior party. They cost thirty cents. I was too late to get one for Sophomore party. I think it is something worth keeping. Miss Wells announced a Math quizz for Wednesday. I am awefully glad she is not going to give it next Monday. I have a feeling that the faculty consider next Monday a good day for them. However, I am trying to teach myself not to cross bridges until I reach them. We get a history cut tomorrow, but we have to go to a lecture eighth hour instead. Meanwhile I hear that we are going to have a half holiday. I hope that the lecture is popstponed. Those two works were half holiday. My laundry has not come yet, not that I need it, but it is about time. Otherwise nothing new--as all my letters seem to end up. Love, [Fannie] I heard all about the game, Pete, from a witness. She was with a Harvard gang, however.Dear Mother, I got your Friday, Saturday, and Sunday mail all in the three mails yesterday. I'll now proceed to answer some of the communications. My last class is over at twelve-twnety[sic]. It is a hygine lecture, so it might last a little longer. I hope not. There is a trainleaving Poughkeepsie at 1:09, arriving in New York at three thirty. By ordering a taxi ahead, i ought to be able to get that. I thought Father told you that I supposed I would need a dress, and that I thought that the best plan. I don't know what else I might need, unless it would be a serge dress, but Thanksgiving is plenty of time for that. It is awfully cold today, so I am inclined to think that I will use my two serge dresses more than at home. I guess two will be enough, though. Look my lime woolen sweater over, and see if you think it will stand dying. If so, i could use it for outdoor exercise--basket-ball today, for instance. Is the internal medicine you seak of for my face? The other trouble is, I believe, a little better than it was, but not right yet. My bowels are not nearly as good as they were the first few weeks. It is very funny. But they are not nearly as bad as at home. I keep well supplied with fruit. I think it would be a very good idea to send the muff. Should I wear my suit or the brown serge dress and a coat? I think the games cause as much excitement up here as at the colleges immediately concerned. The cold weather today--in that connection--made me realize that I brought kid gloves along, but no woolen ones. I have plenty in the left hand small srawer of the chiffonier in the little room. I think it might be well, took to send a few suits of heavy underwear. I may not wear any till winter, but I sould like to have some on hand. I sent the stuff to Mme. Schwartz quite a while ago telling her what was the matter and asking her to hold them for a fitting on the fourteenth. It struck me yesterday that I had never sent my resignation to the Junior Federation. I think kids are automatically dropped when they leave town. Should I send one at this late date? Answer please. Also, did you ever find the Latin notes. i really don't need them, but I should like to have them around, so i think if you don't find them, I'll write Miss Breene and ask her for them. My face is better than when Father was here, but I think it is worse than you have ever seen it. I t used to be that just my forehead and chin got it, but now one part is about the same as the other. Love, [Fannie]I know one thing I forgot. The masquerade was so much fun last Saturday, [that it] occurred to me it might be different + also fun to have the dance [at] Ch vacation a masquerade. It is just [an idea], but what do you think of it? I agree with you that the thing must be done. Look through the papersDear Mother, I got your Friday, Saturday, and Sunday mail all in the three mails yesterday. I'll now proceed to answer some of the communications. My last class is over at twelve-twnety[sic]. It is a hygine lecture, so it might last a little longer. I hope not. There is a trainleaving Poughkeepsie at 1:09, arriving in New York at three thirty. By ordering a taxi ahead, i ought to be able to get that. I thought Father told you that I supposed I would need a dress, and that I thought that the best plan. I don't know what else I might need, unless it would be a serge dress, but Thanksgiving is plenty of time for that. It is awfully cold today, so I am inclined to think that I will use my two serge dresses more than at home. I guess two will be enough, though. Look my lime woolen sweater over, and see if you think it will stand dying. If so, i could use it for outdoor exercise--basket-ball today, for instance. Is the internal medicine you seak of for my face? The other trouble is, I believe, a little better than it was, but not right yet. My bowels are not nearly as good as they were the first few weeks. It is very funny. But they are not nearly as bad as at home. I keep well supplied with fruit. I think it would be a very good idea to send the muff. Should I wear my suit or the brown serge dress and a coat? I think the games cause as much excitement up here as at the colleges immediately concerned. The cold weather today--in that connection--made me realize that I brought kid gloves along, but no woolen ones. I have plenty in the left hand small srawer of the chiffonier in the little room. I think it might be well, took to send a few suits of heavy underwear. I may not wear any till winter, but I sould like to have some on hand. I sent the stuff to Mme. Schwartz quite a while ago telling her what was the matter and asking her to hold them for a fitting on the fourteenth. It struck me yesterday that I had never sent my resignation to the Junior Federation. I think kids are automatically dropped when they leave town. Should I send one at this late date? Answer please. Also, did you ever find the Latin notes. i really don't need them, but I should like to have them around, so i think if you don't find them, I'll write Miss Breene and ask her for them. My face is better than when Father was here, but I think it is worse than you have ever seen it. I t used to be that just my forehead and chin got it, but now one part is about the same as the other. Love, [Fannie]
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Creator: Aaron, Fannie
Date: n.d. [postmarked 1921-11-10]
Text: Dear Father + Mother: Sorry I can't write anything but a card today. I am going full speed but not cutting down on sleep + fresh air. Last night was very hopeful. [Here's] hoping Sat. night is successful! Certainly I would rather be with you at Thanksgiving time if you are in Atlantic, but it seems to me that you ought to go it easy on hotel food. However, you know more about it than I do. Love, Fannie Mrs. Marcus Aaron, 402 Winebiddle Ave., Pittsburgh, Pa.

Creator: Aaron, Fannie
Date: 1923-04-18
Text: [Addressed to Hotel Traymore] April 18, 1923 Dear Pete; and Mother and Father: There is nothing to tell you. I spent the day working and trying to get my speech into shape, and having a good old-time catch. If Bill sounded peeved, Pete, I imagine it was because he was awakened to come to the phone. They had been out till four the night before. Love, Fannie

Creator: Aaron, Fannie
Date: n.d. [postmarked 1921-01-24]
Text: Dear Mother [s] Please send in next laundry my Mase-field's "Collected Poems" It may come in handy for the exam - inasmuch as it is based on Masefield's newer poems. It's either in the little room or in the third floor. Thanks heaps. Love, FannieMr. + Mrs. Marcus Aaron, 402 S. Winebiddle St., Pittsburgh, Pa.

Creator: Aaron, Fannie
Date: 1921-02-03
Text: Feb. 3. Dear Father + Mother: I studied 3 hrs. this morning for my chem exam. I feel as though I'm going to my funeral this afternoon. At least there will be a large attendance paying me their last respects! I may telegraph you in the morning, in case I should decide to take the 1:09. The 11:38 [may] be too much of a rush. Please make a shampoo app'tment for tomorrow aft. for me. I need it terribly. Fannie Mr. + Mrs. Marcus Aaron Hotel Commodore New York.

Creator: Aaron, Fannie
Date: n.d. 1919-09-26 [?]
Text: [26 Sep 1919?] Dear Mother and Pete in one case; Father in the other. There is nothing much to tell you today except that I go out in ten minutes to learn to play field hockey. I hope I shall have good luck at it. My classes came off this morning without any startling display of intelligence on my part. I don't know why I am always to stupid to start with. I am rather tired of it. We had our first lecture in hygiene this morning. It took most of the hour to seat the Freshman class....
Show more[26 Sep 1919?] Dear Mother and Pete in one case; Father in the other. There is nothing much to tell you today except that I go out in ten minutes to learn to play field hockey. I hope I shall have good luck at it. My classes came off this morning without any startling display of intelligence on my part. I don't know why I am always to stupid to start with. I am rather tired of it. We had our first lecture in hygiene this morning. It took most of the hour to seat the Freshman class. Doctor Talberg, (is that the way it is spelled?) did the lecturing today. I just came back from Lucy's room. She has been here about four times in the last two days, so I thought I better go. I also went to see Helen, but she was just going out. Last night the Freshmen of my floor were invited down to the room of two Juniors for chocolate after quiet hour. I was dead tired, and did not want to go, but I thought that was a poor way of starting out to be sociable, so I decided to go. I ducked in time to get my bath before ten o'clock, and was politely informed by the Hall President that it was five-ten and my water was still running. I think for first offence you are simply told to be more careful the next time. I worked in the library most of last night. We were seated in chapel last night, too. Otherwise nothing new. Love, P. S. Ruth Franklin informed me she did not understand one speck of the service.
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Creator: Aaron, Fannie
Date: n.d. [postmarked 1920-09-27]
Text: Dear Father, Thank goodness my schedule is fixed right and the first classes are over. I am awfully tired. Received the long letter. Me for a sleep. Love, FanMr. Marcus Aaron, Hotel Commodore, New York, N.Y.

Creator: Aaron, Fannie
Date: 2/6/20
Text: [Addressed to Hotel Royal Poinciana] February 6, 1920. Dear Mother, Having just heard the exciting news that we will have no classes today, I took out the paper from the machine and decided to write to you instead, a much more enjoyable occupation. We are having an aweful blizzard, and consequently we are having no classes today and are not supposed to leave our rooms, I don't mean rooms, I mean buildings, but my hands are so fold I don't know what I mean. I had intended to cut...
Show more[Addressed to Hotel Royal Poinciana] February 6, 1920. Dear Mother, Having just heard the exciting news that we will have no classes today, I took out the paper from the machine and decided to write to you instead, a much more enjoyable occupation. We are having an aweful blizzard, and consequently we are having no classes today and are not supposed to leave our rooms, I don't mean rooms, I mean buildings, but my hands are so fold I don't know what I mean. I had intended to cut classes and stay in bed today, so it works out first-rate. I wrote to Aunt Bessie that I cannot go to New York and asked her please inform the doctor. Father called up last night again--just to make conversation--he ought to be ashamed of himself! Helen Reid's father was in Middletown and he did the same thing. We decided our fathers had a weakness in common. The note on my door said to get in connection with the Princeton operator, that my brother wanted to speak to me. Between that and not having heard from you yesterday, I thought something was the matter. Marks came out yesterday, and that is what I must get out of my system to you. I got C in English, A in Math, B in Latin, History, French, Hygiene. I realize that they are nothing to be ashamed of, and yet I cought myself being fool enough to be disappointed. I am going to try my best to bring down my standard a little. Lucy told me I ought to feel very cocky. I have this to console me. I am fully convinced that I have felt just badly enough at times to have brought my latin and possibly my French down from and[sic] A to a B, because I feel that those B's are high B's. I am disgusted with Champy that she did not give me an A, because I know as well as anyone that there was more than one grade's difference between my work and that of some of the very inintelligent girls in the class who got C. She probably goes on the theory that no American girl deserves an A in French. It is her first year in teaching and she has a few things to learn. Everybody in my Latin class who has asked me my mark, about six people, expressed her hurprise that I did not get an A. I think probably the reason Miss Bourne did not give it to me is that I improved the beginning of the semester, but from Thanksgiving on I stopped improving. That, I know, was on account of the way I felt. The history mark I think was absolutely right. Miss Wells must have a pretty good opinion of me to have given me A, because I know I did not do overly well on my exam. English i dislike so that it is no wonder I got only C. Lucy says she told Mother last fall before I left home that I would get my highest mark in Math and my lowest in English, that she knew I would not like English, that my mind was not adapted to the sort of work done in Freshman English, and that if said mind had belonged to anyone else it would have flunked the course! Do you agree with that line? I must say I did not know I had a mathematical mind, although there is nothingI should like more. Several people, including Katheryn Gardner, got A in Hygiene. So did Phyllis. What I did not do that I should have done to rub Dr. T. the right way would have been to put in a lot of her pet quotations. So much for my------ marks. They were, I think, close to being better. One Freshman in Davison got two A's. Betty Bacon flunked two things, got two D's, and a C. Deatrice Bagg got D in something and flunked English. I am sorry because she surely does try. Dorothea got two A's, two B's, and a C. She has an A average from her other college for her first two years. A Freshman whom I do not know got five A's. Margaret Cheney, a girl in my math class and Phyllis' chum already so soon, got three A's and thee B's. Phyllis beat me. Our marks were all the same except that she got B in English and I got C, and she got A in Hygiene and I got B. Another thing in Hygiene was that the exam was the only thing to go by, and I had an impossible cold that week. There were about ten flunk-outs. The parents were notified first and most of them called up the college to inform their faughters. It must have been great fun. One of them did not want to come back after vacation but her parents said she must, so she reid her level best to flunk out and her one worry this last week has been that she might have only flunked two and had to stay. Lucy does not tell her marks. Helen Jackson's were good enough to pull her above graduation grade for the first time since her Freshman year. Duffie got her first B since Freshman year. I would much rather be like Ruth Franklin than like her--she is a good mixer and much more of an all-round girl, and she has only had one ! in college. Mother, I always come around to your way of thinking sooner or later, and I have come to it now about marks--I think it is a shame that they ever gave up the closed mark system. Among other reasons their marks are not accurate enough and there is too great a difference in the standards of different instructors. I suppose the mail will be late in leaving. I doubt if anyone can get around to collect it today. I got a card inviting me to the metting of the French club tomorrow. I am glad they decided to accept me. I am going to bed now with a hot water bag on my tootsies and try to keep them warm. Me for a fur coat next year--what a fool I was! Love to Grandpa and Aunt Hattie, and heaps to you. Just think of a whole day with nothing that I have to do! [Fannie]
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Creator: Aaron, Fannie
Date: 4/18/20
Text: F87G WD 11 Collect VC Poughkeepsie NewYork 440P APR 18 1920 Mrs Marcus Aaron 402 Winebiddle Avenue Pittsburgh Penn Feeling quite a little easier glad you stayed home love Fannie 741P

Creator: Aaron, Fannie
Date: 2/17/20
Text: Feb. 17. Dear Father, I cannot understand your telegram I wrote every day (special Saturday). Except Friday, when I did not have time, but asked Aunt Bessie to [drop] cards. Your telegram was from Philadelphia I did not know you were going there and I did not know where to reach you there, so I wired home. I am well, and exceedingly busy. I finished all my book work on the history topic today, and now have only to arrange it! Love, Fannie.Mr. Marcus Aaron, 402 S. Winebiddle Ave., Pittsburgh, Pa.

Creator: Aaron, Fannie
Date: 10/12/19
Text: October 12, 1919. Dear Father, Mother, and Pete: Pete, what do you pay for typewriting paper. I paid $1.75 for a box of five hundred sheets of the only kind they have. It was the cheapest way to get it. I brought a large pack along from home, and it is gone already. I think I wrote you a book yesterday afternoon, so there is not much to tell you today. It is rainy and cold. No wonder the infermary is overcrowded. I worked a good part of yesterday afternoon, and I stopped in the middle of my...
Show moreOctober 12, 1919. Dear Father, Mother, and Pete: Pete, what do you pay for typewriting paper. I paid $1.75 for a box of five hundred sheets of the only kind they have. It was the cheapest way to get it. I brought a large pack along from home, and it is gone already. I think I wrote you a book yesterday afternoon, so there is not much to tell you today. It is rainy and cold. No wonder the infermary is overcrowded. I worked a good part of yesterday afternoon, and I stopped in the middle of my work this afternoon to write this letter. It seems as though the more time I have the longer it takes to do my work. I got up five minutes before the dinning-room closed this morning and made breakfast. It is lots easier than bothering to make tea in my room. Last night Sophs and Juniors of Davison gave us their stunt party. It was very good. The ridiculousness of their costumes helped as much as anything to make it a success. There was a nigger chorus among other things. They had a class being taught by the methods to be used in fifty years from now. In that they got a good chance to take off the Freshmen. The one on me was no good, but some of them were. mine appeared when the class was giving alliterative sentences. It was, "Fannie furnishes food for fourth floor". After the stunts we danced. The best part of the thing the take-off on the infirmary and its rotten bunch of doctors. I don't think they would have been flattered. Talking about the infirmary. You know Elaine Wolf lives very near me. She has been in bed most of the time for two days. All the kids have been going in to entertain her, but it did no occur to any of that that she might have fever, so list night after the stunts my thermometer came in handy. She had only 103 1/2. So in spite of her objections I told Miss Smith. She sent for the doctor and today they took her to the infirmary. Don't get excited that I might have caught anything, because I gargled and aired my lungs, etc. She had so much confidence in the doctors here that she sent for her mother. She came up this afternoon, decided Elaine was not seriously sick, and left. I can see you doing that, Mother. There is one place I would not want to be sick, and that is college. Please send the sport skirt and serge dress. I am wearing the brown serge today--it is awfully chilly. I guess I'll be asking for my winder underwear pretty soon. Did you get the bills from Luckey's? Love, [Fannie]I go to Mohonk with [Ferry] next Saturday. I was asked by a [Darrison Junior] also - she is a "stick in the mud" though. What was the name of the [Alderman] from Mt. Hood Lodge [who spends the fall there?]
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Creator: Aaron, Fannie
Date: 1919-09-24
Text: September 24, 1919. Dear Father and Pete: Having just made my bed and had a taste of oatmeal, a rotten egg, and some cocoa, I decided that my time could not be better spent than by wishing you a Happy New Year, although I suppose that I am a day late in doing so. There is nothing much to write to you today. Yesterday I had French, English, and History. My French teacher, although American, speaks a very fine and Frenchy French. We are going to read the Chanson de Roldand, in modern French,...
Show moreSeptember 24, 1919. Dear Father and Pete: Having just made my bed and had a taste of oatmeal, a rotten egg, and some cocoa, I decided that my time could not be better spent than by wishing you a Happy New Year, although I suppose that I am a day late in doing so. There is nothing much to write to you today. Yesterday I had French, English, and History. My French teacher, although American, speaks a very fine and Frenchy French. We are going to read the Chanson de Roldand, in modern French, of course. In English we had to write another theme about our work in English, our ability to read and write, etc. I will be glad when they have the statistics on us and give us a more interesting line of topics to write on. In history I have Miss Thallon, whom Mother knows from college. Lucy says she is fine, whatever Lucy's authority is worth. She also says she never gives an A. That ought to make you happy, and Doctor Goldenson, too, who informed me that they never give over triple A here. I spent the afternoon doing the work for today, straightening up around here, and standing in line to register at the gym, and then to get books at the book-store. Those two things took almost two hours. I am to report Friday a week for Physical Examination and also to try to pass the swimming test which is necessary for graduation. I believe all you have to do is to swim twice the length of the pool, not more than one hundred feet at the most. After standing in line three quarters of an hour, the books that I was to get were not in yet, so I had to take Phyllis's and go off campus to get them and take them back. She got hers second hand but they are such messy things that I am willing to wait for new ones. I had a notion at the beginning that I ought to eat here in order to get acquainted with people, but I decided that I was sufficiently acqauinted[sic], and that I would get sick of this grub soon enough, so I had dinner with Mother last night and then came back here. They feed good at the Inn. The off campus girls get better grub than we do--they get dessert for lunch and dinner and they get butter for both. We get butter for lunch only, and in return for that luxury we get no dessert at noon. We now have two Freshmen tables, which we keep till Thanksgiving. After that we can sit anywhere we please. I don't know much else to tell you. Love,
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Creator: Aaron, Fannie
Date: 2/25/20
Text: Dear Father, The reading of "Electra" last night was fine, ex-cept that it took up the whole evening. I don't know what is the matter with me - I am not working nearly as much as last year semester. I think the infirmary treatment is going to help me, although it takes two hours every day. I had a letter from my Soph. friend at [Wellesley]. The [poor] kid certainly does dislike the place - and she is well, too. She wants me to spend a week-end with her. If I did not have to...
Show moreDear Father, The reading of "Electra" last night was fine, ex-cept that it took up the whole evening. I don't know what is the matter with me - I am not working nearly as much as last year semester. I think the infirmary treatment is going to help me, although it takes two hours every day. I had a letter from my Soph. friend at [Wellesley]. The [poor] kid certainly does dislike the place - and she is well, too. She wants me to spend a week-end with her. If I did not have to chase to N.Y. all the time, I certainly would. I'd like to see the place. Mad A - in the math quizz, That seems to be my standard grade. [Zej] will be busy friday. Love, FannieMr. Marcus Aaron, 402 S. Winebiddle Ave., Pittsburgh, Pa.
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Creator: Aaron, Fannie
Date: n.d. [postmarked 1923-03-23]
Text: Dear Mother: I'm going to Atlantic tomorrow aft. I never want to see a book again - till I'm rested. Rhinecliff last night was one of the greatest experiences I've had in many a day. We left at 5:30 + got back at 10:30. [Gut] my trunk this AM to the house. Bringing the material in my suitcase. Love, Fannie[This side of card is for address] Mrs. Marcus Aaron, 402 Winebiddle Ave., Pittsburgh, Pa.

Creator: Aaron, Fannie
Date: 3/9/19
Text: Mar. 9, 1919 Dear Mother, I was just on my way up to the room to write, when I discovered this se-cluded desk. It's the only one in the hotel not taken. I slept till nine o'clock this morning. It poured all night, but today was beautiful. This morning Father, Mr. Gage (siss) and I whacked around nine holes with one club. The less said about it the better. This afternoon we followed a match con-sisting of Chick [Evans], Mr. Alec Ross, and and two men named Stiles and [Whittamore]....
Show moreMar. 9, 1919 Dear Mother, I was just on my way up to the room to write, when I discovered this se-cluded desk. It's the only one in the hotel not taken. I slept till nine o'clock this morning. It poured all night, but today was beautiful. This morning Father, Mr. Gage (siss) and I whacked around nine holes with one club. The less said about it the better. This afternoon we followed a match con-sisting of Chick [Evans], Mr. Alec Ross, and and two men named Stiles and [Whittamore]. The gallery was enormous. A man that has charge of a lot of the club affairs, says he has never seen such a large one here. They surely play a wonderful game. I think every picture caught Mr. Ross in his characteristic pose - spitting. Mr Wells slipped and sprained his ankle, but he followed the match anyhow. He hobbled along on a cane, right up in the front line. I got 4 shirts + 1 waist from F. + Simon. Love, Fannie Mr. Hall + Mr Lawrence [lian Meoday]My dear Stella - It is very of good of you to suggest that we lengthen our stay. If you were here, I would do it but it is out of all question under the circumstances. If you will join us in such a [trip], [I might] be easily pursuaded to go to [Ashville] or Hotsprings [Va] later on for ample weeks. Think it over. We will [have] had enough by next Saturday. We took it easy today; played [9] holes with one club this morning and this afternoon we [were] part of the "biggest" gallery that [ever] followed a golf game. Four stars played [- little old]. Fan was all eyes. She isn't missing much. I [have] not[encouraging] horesebacking [times] etc for I know it would but add to the exertion and [exercise] of which we both have enough [more than enuf,] Love and kisses and all sorts of best wishes from Marcus
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Creator: Aaron, Fannie
Date: 2/21/20
Text: Dear Mother, I am writing this before going back to college. The doctor was far from encouraging but inasmuch as I feel no better, I could not expect otherwise. I am glad you'll be here next week. I feel that he will tell you what's what more than he will me. He changed my medicine. He also wants me to go [thru] a process twice a day which will be impossible unless I can get the nurse at the inform to do it for me. Otherwise nothing now. I'm so glad you'll be here next...
Show moreDear Mother, I am writing this before going back to college. The doctor was far from encouraging but inasmuch as I feel no better, I could not expect otherwise. I am glad you'll be here next week. I feel that he will tell you what's what more than he will me. He changed my medicine. He also wants me to go [thru] a process twice a day which will be impossible unless I can get the nurse at the inform to do it for me. Otherwise nothing now. I'm so glad you'll be here next week _ I want him to tell you whether it will last till summer. Love, Fannie 3:15 - Feb 21Mrs. Marcus Aaron, Hotel Royal Poinciana, Palm Beach, Florida
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Creator: Aaron, Fannie
Date: n.d. [postmarked 1922-01-26]
Text: Dear Father + Mother: Spent from 5 to 7:30 with Pauline, Edgar, + Helen yesterday. That includes [dinneer]. I can tell you some funny things when I see you. Pauline said she would call you up. [shey] are going home tonight, leaving here 2:02. Helen has 2 exams tomorrow + 1 Sat. that she hasn't studied for! I studied for [J] for 2 hrs last night. Came over to Metcalf - as in bed at 10, slept till 9 this AM. + had a delicious breakfast in bed. I have the room Lucy + I had Freshman yr- by...
Show moreDear Father + Mother: Spent from 5 to 7:30 with Pauline, Edgar, + Helen yesterday. That includes [dinneer]. I can tell you some funny things when I see you. Pauline said she would call you up. [shey] are going home tonight, leaving here 2:02. Helen has 2 exams tomorrow + 1 Sat. that she hasn't studied for! I studied for [J] for 2 hrs last night. Came over to Metcalf - as in bed at 10, slept till 9 this AM. + had a delicious breakfast in bed. I have the room Lucy + I had Freshman yr- by myself this time. How I hated this place 2 yes. ago, + how wonderful it seems to me now! I guess 2 yrs. have made some diff. in me after all - I amused myself in bed last night making comparisons. I studied psych from 10 to lunch time, + and am going to do [Sec.] this aft. Will stay here till Sat. if they'll let me. Dr. Be gave me her address to write her about Phila. She's a peach, She wont' be here next semester. Do you think I ought to send Henrietta B. an engagement present? R.S.V.P.? FannieMRS. MARCUS AARON, 402 S. WINEßiDDLE AVE., PITTSBURGH, PA.
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Creator: Aaron, Fannie
Date: n.d. [ca. 1922-03-05]
Text: [ca. 5 march 1922] I got sick Tuesday night, Mother. You can make calculations according to that, Mother. Unless I am to see Dr. C. or someone else the beginning of vacation, I should like to stay here and work on my three topics for a few days. R. S. V. P.

Creator: Aaron, Fannie
Date: 2/24/19
Text: Feb 24, 1919 Dear Mother I don't know if I am beginning at the beginning or the end -, but anyhow it is great. We got to Washington at 9:10. The lateness was due to the wreck you no doubt read about. However, our drawing room car came in at 10:30 and I went to bed as soon as the placewas made up. The couch was the narrow-est I ever struck, and I slept accordingly. The porter called us just in time for Washington. There was a dinner on, but we got breakfast on the next train. It left ten...
Show moreFeb 24, 1919 Dear Mother I don't know if I am beginning at the beginning or the end -, but anyhow it is great. We got to Washington at 9:10. The lateness was due to the wreck you no doubt read about. However, our drawing room car came in at 10:30 and I went to bed as soon as the placewas made up. The couch was the narrow-est I ever struck, and I slept accordingly. The porter called us just in time for Washington. There was a dinner on, but we got breakfast on the next train. It left ten minutes late. Father said that was wonder-ful You were right, the station is immense. The men used the stateroom for a smoker pretty much. When they had the window closed I went out in the cart. They certainly didn't [make]me feel as though I didn't belong there, though. Oh, they didn't eat dinner, and when we came back, the door was [locked]. A little later they called me in to discuss a prospective game in which Mr. [W]. + I were to be partners. I could smell when they talked why the door had been locked. I guess thay had it in their suit cases. We had regular old-time bills of fare for breakfast and lunch. For dinner we had the regularmeal. It was good. but tell Mary the cream of [pea] soup was not like hers. It was cream [of water] of [pea] soup. Mr. Wells gave me all the civil war history of the territory through which we passed. The train stopped [15] minutes at Richmond. We got out and looked down from the elevation on which the trains come in. There were about fifty filthy little niggers down in the puddles begging for pennies, a la Cherbourg. I have never seen so many [tin]-can dumps + filthy little cabins as those nigger places, before you get in the station. I got down to the sixth line on the bottom of the sweater. I wish it were finished. Every-body seems to wear one. Father says my jersey coat is delightful! I used that + the black skirt + straw hat today. It was beautiful & quite warm. I wore no coat part of the time. But I left the story. We arrived at Aberdeen to the minute, 9 o'clock. The branch train to come here waited for the Southern train, 9:40. We got here then, + till every-thing was fixed. [it] was 11 until I landed in my little bed. We got a sleeping-porch room, on the "[Parterre]" It is immediately next to a long porch, which makes it quite noisy. They are going to move us up as soon as some one [fulls] out. They put a secondbed out today. Father insisted on my using the one last night. I woke up at 8:15. We landed at the club at about 9:30. We had to wait our turn till 10, and then couldn't get a caddy till the fourth hole. We got a chocolate drop soldier. I've never seen so much chocolate. Got back for lunch at 2, rested till 3, went back, played 11 holes with Father + Mr. Lawrence, slept on the porch from 5:45 to 7:10, took a bath, dressed, haddinner with the gang talked to both Mrs. [Harkers], who were exceedingly nice to me and invited me to be with them whenever [I am] not playing golf; and came down to write to you. I suppose you are interested in what people look like. Those that loaf around here are all dolled up in white. Those that play are dressed as I am. In the evenings they are medium dressed up, not much white. I wore the blue georgetti with silver slippers. Does that meet with your approval? Everything is great! ! ! !Are you getting a rest? Have you finished that book? Streeter, author of "Dere [Malee]" is a lt. under Mr. Hall's brother-in-law, a captain. Can I have my hair washed on day 4 of my [loaf]? R.S.V.P.
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Creator: Aaron, Fannie
Date: 10/6/19
Text: Oct. 6. Will write this aft. Lester + I too hurried to write yesterday. [We] had a fine time together. Must go to Dean's office to arrange for Sophomore French! [Haha!] Fannie[This side of card is for address] Mr. and Mrs. Marcus Aaron, 402 Winebiddle Ave., Pittsburgh, Pa.

Creator: Aaron, Fannie
Date: n.d. [postmarked 1920-03-01]
Text: Dear Father + Mother, I am very tired - the train was quite late + even with a taxi I only got out here at ten twenty-five. I was very stupid this morning - there is always the "day after" a week-end. I shall now go over to the infirm. I liked the food in N.Y. better than here. Have a good time in A.C. Love, FannieMr. + Mrs. Marcus Aaron, c/o Hotel Ambassador, Atlantic City, New Jersey.

Creator: Aaron, Fannie
Date: 1920-11-01
Text: November 1, 1920. Dear Mother, Father, and Pete: When I got home from the Libe yesterday afternoon, I found your telegram saying that you would call me up. I had intended calling you last night, because your letter sounded as though you were worried about me, and I thought speaking to you would "ease your mind", as Dr. B. says. A bunch of the kids from Davison, those that I like, went out to the Cider Mill on a picnic last night and were chaperoned by one of the nicest members of...
Show moreNovember 1, 1920. Dear Mother, Father, and Pete: When I got home from the Libe yesterday afternoon, I found your telegram saying that you would call me up. I had intended calling you last night, because your letter sounded as though you were worried about me, and I thought speaking to you would "ease your mind", as Dr. B. says. A bunch of the kids from Davison, those that I like, went out to the Cider Mill on a picnic last night and were chaperoned by one of the nicest members of the French faculty. They urged me to go, but I thought, in view of the fact that I had been feeling worse for some days and was just starting to get over it, it would be foolish to risk it for the sake of two hours' fun. It is not so easy to give up pleasure, but I guess it is good discipline. I am feeling quite a lot better this morning. I guess it must have been a cold of some sort. When should I order my birth for Thanksgiving? Did I tell you, Mother, that Luckey's won't have any telescopes for a month? I guess you'll have to get one at home, or if you cannot, keep on using this one. Don't send the blue gingham dress back. I think the cool weather has come to stay. I have been doing something that I never was able to do last year, sleeping late on Saturday and Sunday mornings. I slept till a quarter to elven[sic] yesterday, old time! It is luckey the time was changed or I would have had to take a chapel cut. Incidentally, I am going to start taking my fifteen cuts on Sundays. Chapel is really terribly boring, particularly when the minister prays from everything from the president and Congress down to the knives and forks we use to eat with. I went from Cahpel[sic] to Lucy's room yesterday, and discovered that I had lost your special, Mother. So I proceeded on a half-hour search for it, and did not find it. Last night Lucy told me that she found it under her bed! After dinner I walked down to the drug-store in Arlington and found it closed. i then returned and worked in the Libe for three hours on my history topic. Last night I did some Spanish, and folled a considerable part of the evening away by talking. Sophomore party was really quite wonderful. Lucy got in because she knew the chairmna[sic], Harriet Haines, very well, having roomed next door to her last year. She said that she hard some faculty say it was the best Sophomore party they had ever seen. The choruses were perfectly trained and very well gotten up. The exhibition dancing was wonderful and took still more wonderfully. I wish I could describe it now, I would much prefer that to going to an Ec quiz. Good luck on Wednesday, Pete. I am anxious to hear how you think Wellesly compares with V. C. Love, Fannie
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Creator: Aaron, Fannie
Date: n.d. [postmarked 1921-04-29]
Text: Am having a great time with Henrietta. Love, Fan FridayMr. + Mrs. Marcus Aaron, 402 Winebiddle Ave., Pittsburgh, Pa

Creator: Aaron, Fannie
Date: n.d. [postmarked 1923-05-03]
Text: November 9, 1922 Dear Mother, Pather, and Pete: I spent a rather profitable day "topin^ng" yesterday, and had the pleasant diversion of Peggy Higgind' dämpany for dinner. I miss her this year. She is the kind that are rather rare around here--intellectual, without being an intellectual nut, like our present debate chairman. She thinks of transferring to Yale next year--she objects to studying with undergraduates. Incidentally, Pete, she wears around her wrifet both her Phi...
Show more November 9, 1922 Dear Mother, Pather, and Pete: I spent a rather profitable day "topin^ng" yesterday, and had the pleasant diversion of Peggy Higgind' dämpany for dinner. I miss her this year. She is the kind that are rather rare around here--intellectual, without being an intellectual nut, like our present debate chairman. She thinks of transferring to Yale next year--she objects to studying with undergraduates. Incidentally, Pete, she wears around her wrifet both her Phi Bet and D. S. R. keys- My dear intellectual brotner, there are certain things about your mental makeup that I have never been quite able to understand, and one of them is your ridiculous devotion to football. What ''new meaning to life^ado you get from it outside of submerging your own personality in that of the mob? You must be a devotee of mob spirit if it really exhilarates you—and I was never aware that enjoyment of losing oneself in the mob was a characteristic of a high type mind* But yell away--far be it from me to spoil your pleasure. And take a picture of yourself doing it! Football in Itself is indeed a representation of '^refined'' athletics--gentle play for physical development, and no manifestatioaof brute force, or anything like that. But I had better desist, or I will be invited to stay home on the eighteenth! I guess we enjoy games from a different an^le. I like my fur coat very much this way, Mother. I am feeling as strong as usual now, and backto normal as far as the grippe spell is concerned. I v/as going to write to you to send the prunes. You anticipated my thoughts. I'll let you know about theater in a day or so. Have not paid mucii attention to v^hat is worth seeing. I think i*d like to see "Loyalties'' but I'll let you know definitely soon. Pete, how about my giving you the book for your birthday that you suggested giving me. I would like it all right, but I know you ?/ould like it more yourself. And then you give me either waiter Lippman's "Public OpMion" or Oastiglionl's ''The Courtier". I have to read them both in the near future for nistories, and they are both worth owning. If you give me one, do it soon, or it won*t De nere in time- If you don't want to, give me what you first suggested. R. S. V. Lo ve, FannieMorning - 9 until M.A. goes to office, reading M.A's office hours (11:30 to 1:00) office, where I expect to be treated with the respect Lunch] due a V.C. alum. Afternoon a) 1st half - reading. Several days a week French with Mme. D. if possible in aft. b) 2nd half - outdoors A.B. - in golf season (a) gives place to (b). See about M. Morrison corking + sewing. Schedule subject to change to fit M. Morrison if I go. Also, schedule subject to tem-porary cancellation for allowingtrips to Atlantic City, Pinehurst, + other points of interest. This plan must be balanced against a History M.A. I think in view of my health, M. Cone notwithstanding, I shall have to stay home and follow this plan. I (over) think there have been those who have had harder lives. What say you to this product of my brain? Speaking of my brain I feel very intellectually inde-pendent today - having just delivered myself of a personal denunciation + condemnation of the philosophy of Descartes in a written today. "Day by day, in every way, I grow more + more conceited." Aren't I as good as Descartes? Sure mike! [Su], Father? You will recommend Cone, will you?
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Creator: Aaron, Fannie
Date: n.d. [postmarked 1922-05-10]
Text: [postmarked 10 May 1922] Dear Mother: Now for answering questions- I'll return the original "step-in" tomorrow. Don't get any more. They are nice, but mpt particularly practical. I prefer bloomers, except for terribly hot weather. The unionsuits are fine. Thank you for them. The bags came, too. They are beautiful. What in the world was the idea, six months, or thereabouts, from my birthday? I fear you spoil me! Did you mean to return one of the two? You didn't say so...
Show more[postmarked 10 May 1922] Dear Mother: Now for answering questions- I'll return the original "step-in" tomorrow. Don't get any more. They are nice, but mpt particularly practical. I prefer bloomers, except for terribly hot weather. The unionsuits are fine. Thank you for them. The bags came, too. They are beautiful. What in the world was the idea, six months, or thereabouts, from my birthday? I fear you spoil me! Did you mean to return one of the two? You didn't say so, but it certainly seems silly to me to have two somewhat alike, both for dress. So I shall return the long one. The shape of it is more practical, bit it is not nearly as pretty as the other one. In case you can't return it, what would you think of my giving it to Helen Reid for Commencement? The bill came along with them, so I know they are expensive--yet I cannot think of any way better to show my appreciation to her for all her kindness Freshman and last yr. then by giving her something particularly nice, especially since I am sure she will never get any any other way. She adores pretty things, and never has a thing that is either good or pretty. What would you think of that? She brought her mother over to meet me last night. She came up to help her decide about next year. The long and shortof it is that she will take the fellowship provided she does not have to pay the commission to the teacher's agency for getting her the job$75. Either they are quite poor, or else colossally tight, but I think the former. Her mother was wearing a suit that Helen has worn up here for two years. Why all this discussion, I don't know, except that I was terribly impressed with the unfortunateness and peculiarity of her situation. Marse's sweater is very pretty. The white accentuates my sylph-like form a little, but it is a little unusual, so i think I'll keep it instead of having him exchange it for a plain one. Tell him I'll thank him as soon as I have a breathing moment. I really like it very much. It is safe to say I'll want Miss Alice for a Wk. anyhow, porbably ten days. I'll need some fixing on Satin petticoats, and maybe a new one or two--probably new white ones. If you could rather have Miss Lendle do such things, suit yourself. I know you don't like having Miss A. for meals. I don't think there will be much forher in the way of dresses. Of course I know no more about the time than you do. If possible for her, have her arrange her time so that she can come as soon as I come home. The sooner done, the better.When is Confirmation? I must write to Evelyn G. for it. I'm using the Religion bks. Will return them next wk. Let me know if you got the race ones. I hate to bother you, but it helps me more than you can imagine. Sent a new and empty laundry case today. I was not in chapel last night, but I understand that Miss H. was not there. I got a B on the Zo written that I thought I almost flunked last Friday, and an A on the Heredity written of a week ago. That is my first A in that dept. I am going to work out schedule tonight. I am going to write to Dr. F. tonight that I shall stop the treatments unless I hear from him to the contrary--there is no doubt in my mind that I feel worse, quite a lot, worse, in fact, when i am having them, than when i am not. I have felt my best since I started them the five days intermission when I was sick. And I usually feel worse then, so that is proof conclusive. And I am much too busy to feel so uncomfortable. Dr. T's Junior Hygiene lectures are in pregress. Some parts of them or good, but I certainly think she is afflicted with wheels. I shall hash her out with you one of these days. Love, Fannie
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Creator: Aaron, Fannie
Date: 3/8/19
Text: Mar. 8, 1919 Dear Mother, Had a half hour lesson at 9 (to 9:30, naturally). Played 18 holes with Father and Mr. Zies. I had the latter two up. He is awfully nice. He talks French, incidentally. We stayed at the club and had a very good lunch. Mr. Z, Father and I played again after lunch. We were caught at the thirteenth hole in the pouring rain. We were as far from the clubas we could possibly be. I don't know how we stood, but I do know that Mr. Z. didn't beat me. There is a long...
Show moreMar. 8, 1919 Dear Mother, Had a half hour lesson at 9 (to 9:30, naturally). Played 18 holes with Father and Mr. Zies. I had the latter two up. He is awfully nice. He talks French, incidentally. We stayed at the club and had a very good lunch. Mr. Z, Father and I played again after lunch. We were caught at the thirteenth hole in the pouring rain. We were as far from the clubas we could possibly be. I don't know how we stood, but I do know that Mr. Z. didn't beat me. There is a long elbow hole on this course. Bogie is either four or five, four I think. If you get a good drive, it is all right. otherwise you have to play over the woods or lose a stroke by playing safe. I had a peachy drive, [a midiron] shot, and a putt-3! Mr. Zies surely talked. Father introduced me me to two men tonight and they both asked if I was the girl that made a 3. I know why Mr. Wells didn't ([oouldn't]) come down last night; he made a 76. It surely is wonderful here. [The] sweater fits and I wear it every day. [Love Fannie]
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Creator: Aaron, Fannie
Date: n.d. [postmarked 1922-05-22]
Text: Dear M. + F., Just discovered topics are due this Tuesday instead of Thursday, so I shall not write tomorrow. Have worked all day for Psych + the Browning exam tomorrow. Love, Fannie [Tree] Ceremonies were beautiful. Went with Miss Hamilton - 2 whole hrs. of her![This Side of Card is For Address] Mr. and Mrs. Marcus Aaron, 402 S. Winebiddle Ave., Pittsburgh, Pa.

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