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HOTEL IMPERIAL
Broadway and 32nd Street
New York
Robert Stafford
Dear Mother -
Your letter referring to vacation received and duly pondered over. I can very easily put in the month of June if you do not get back as Grace Horney, Gladys Lyall, Alfreda Mosscrop and family and Dorothy Parker have all invited me to visit
There besides my wanting to go to Silver Bay Convention (June 20th - 30th) Dorothy is very insistent that I go directly from college west to Chicago with her and let you pick me up there and that would suit us beautifully.
I have written Mr. Bryant tonight asking about the possibilities of my getting a counselorship - I told him it was very probable that I would spend July only up there, for I like very much your suggestion that I do so and then spend August with you on the Cape while the children remain at Quinnebeck. That sounds fine to me - I had hoped in a way
to stay in town this summer, both on account of my teeth and to do summer social work. There were one or two other reasons, but they are very silly and personal and not to be considered at all.
On the whole a month of camp-life to get ‘back a little ginger into my weary self and
then a month with you on the Cape certainly does appeal to me. I hope to be able somewhere to work in a visit to Chicago as Dorothy and Florence are both very anxious to have me come there, and all my other Chicago friends heartily
second the motion.
Now as to teeth. This De. Palmer here who does straightening, also does everything else in the teeth - line so I didn’t put much faith in him. He is terribly busy doing filling, etc. and one has to make appointments 4 and 5 weeks ahead. However, I will write him tonight and ask for a date, go down and see him and report details later -
Alice Flannery is coming up to spend the week-end with me. Saturday is Field Day when our Inter-class Track meet comes off. I’ll enter in the 50 yard dash and a couple of other
events. Oh, Mother, dear, hope and pray that I’ll break the record! If I could win a “V” - I’d die happy -
Did I tell you that Fraulein Kueffuer, my German instructor, advised me to go on with German and furthermore, she said if I was
willing to read four or five books this summer, I could skip a course and go on with advanced German next year! Not that I have any idea or intent in doing it, but I was pleased to be asked.
Room-drawing is
past and over, thank goodness! And after much altercation with my friends, I am in a single on 3rd floor Main right near the nicest girls in college - three of the people who are my near neighbors have been class presidents of 1914! I’m pleased as Punch, although the room, like all Main singles, isn’t big enough to change one’s mind in. However, I’m going to paint my furniture over white and fix up daintily and in spite of the swearing green balsamine, I think I can make it attractive.
I went to dinner at Prof. Gow’s today - and had a beautiful
time. Mrs. Gow is a sweet-heart!
I’m arising at 6:00 these days and going out for track-practice. Just now I’m so lame I can’t go up and down-stairs, but that’s a mere trifle, I suppose. At any rate, early hours are essentiality, so good-night, Have a good [juice] and write often to -
Muriel
GEORGE S. ATWOOD
CHATHAM, MASS.
PLANTER, GROWER AND WHOLESALE DEALER IN
ATWOOD’S FANCY CHATHAM OYSTERS
ALSO LITTLE NECK CLAMS AND QUAHOGS
THESE ARE GROWN IN PURE SEA WATER WHERE THERE IS NO SEWAGE
PRESENTED BY P.J. ATWOOD
Percy sent me this in a letter, accompanying a huge box of arbutus.
8043
Poughkeepsie APR
28 11 00 AM
1913
N.Y.
Mrs. B. O. Tilden
San Francisco
California
Palace Hotel
Broadway and 32nd Street
New York
Robert Stafford
Dear Mother -
Your letter referring to vacation received and duly pondered over. I can very easily put in the month of June if you do not get back as Grace Horney, Gladys Lyall, Alfreda Mosscrop and family and Dorothy Parker have all invited me to visit
There besides my wanting to go to Silver Bay Convention (June 20th - 30th) Dorothy is very insistent that I go directly from college west to Chicago with her and let you pick me up there and that would suit us beautifully.
I have written Mr. Bryant tonight asking about the possibilities of my getting a counselorship - I told him it was very probable that I would spend July only up there, for I like very much your suggestion that I do so and then spend August with you on the Cape while the children remain at Quinnebeck. That sounds fine to me - I had hoped in a way
to stay in town this summer, both on account of my teeth and to do summer social work. There were one or two other reasons, but they are very silly and personal and not to be considered at all.
On the whole a month of camp-life to get ‘back a little ginger into my weary self and
then a month with you on the Cape certainly does appeal to me. I hope to be able somewhere to work in a visit to Chicago as Dorothy and Florence are both very anxious to have me come there, and all my other Chicago friends heartily
second the motion.
Now as to teeth. This De. Palmer here who does straightening, also does everything else in the teeth - line so I didn’t put much faith in him. He is terribly busy doing filling, etc. and one has to make appointments 4 and 5 weeks ahead. However, I will write him tonight and ask for a date, go down and see him and report details later -
Alice Flannery is coming up to spend the week-end with me. Saturday is Field Day when our Inter-class Track meet comes off. I’ll enter in the 50 yard dash and a couple of other
events. Oh, Mother, dear, hope and pray that I’ll break the record! If I could win a “V” - I’d die happy -
Did I tell you that Fraulein Kueffuer, my German instructor, advised me to go on with German and furthermore, she said if I was
willing to read four or five books this summer, I could skip a course and go on with advanced German next year! Not that I have any idea or intent in doing it, but I was pleased to be asked.
Room-drawing is
past and over, thank goodness! And after much altercation with my friends, I am in a single on 3rd floor Main right near the nicest girls in college - three of the people who are my near neighbors have been class presidents of 1914! I’m pleased as Punch, although the room, like all Main singles, isn’t big enough to change one’s mind in. However, I’m going to paint my furniture over white and fix up daintily and in spite of the swearing green balsamine, I think I can make it attractive.
I went to dinner at Prof. Gow’s today - and had a beautiful
time. Mrs. Gow is a sweet-heart!
I’m arising at 6:00 these days and going out for track-practice. Just now I’m so lame I can’t go up and down-stairs, but that’s a mere trifle, I suppose. At any rate, early hours are essentiality, so good-night, Have a good [juice] and write often to -
Muriel
GEORGE S. ATWOOD
CHATHAM, MASS.
PLANTER, GROWER AND WHOLESALE DEALER IN
ATWOOD’S FANCY CHATHAM OYSTERS
ALSO LITTLE NECK CLAMS AND QUAHOGS
THESE ARE GROWN IN PURE SEA WATER WHERE THERE IS NO SEWAGE
PRESENTED BY P.J. ATWOOD
Percy sent me this in a letter, accompanying a huge box of arbutus.
8043
Poughkeepsie APR
28 11 00 AM
1913
N.Y.
Mrs. B. O. Tilden
San Francisco
California
Palace Hotel
