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Wednesday March 13
Dear Mamie
If you got no letter from me between Tuesday March 5, and Monday March 11, the mails are at fault for I wrote one the middle of last week. I appreciate your missing the usual two letters a week, but I cannot appreciate your sending me a succession of snippy horrid notes such as I’ve gotten in the last two days. You needn’t talk about notes instead of letters! I’m sorry you dislike my being sleepy much of the time, but as that is the
case I can’t remedy it. I have been exceedingly busy ever since I came back from Roxmor, and I thought you might realize that and be tolerant of notes -- especially as I wrote so many letters from Roxmor. I have done absolutely nothing but routine class and study work. I have seen no people, heard no news, and thought no thoughts -- interesting subject matter to transcribe on the whole -- distinctly it is not so! My one bright day of gladness has been Falstaff, and Miss Keys conversations about the same.
Edith Tallant came in
just now with a copy of In the Bishop’s Carriage which she said would be mine if I’d write a review of it for the Miscellany -- funny isn’t it that I should happen to get the copy sent by the Bobbs Merrill company to the Vassar Miscellany! That book and the Shipp family seem fated to bump into one another. It certainly is racy and bound to be popular -- but why, oh why does the Bobbs Merrill Company always have such fiendishly ugly covers for its books! “The Yoke” isn’t quite as bad as the rest, but most of them are truly awful. The only really decent cover they ever made was for the Main Shakespeare and Other Essays.
It won’t be long now until the Founders Dance. Of course I won’t have a very exciting time having no man, but Fanny Bell may have two and in that case I am to help entertain one of them. They are her cousin Martin Faris, and his partner in law, Robert Fulton. I s’pose U’ll have to have my
white dress pressed for the occasion. The girls have begun singing outdoors between dinner and chapel these days and it is most enjoyable.
We have more interesting reading to do in French -- much biography, and essays; Voltaire, and part of Rousseau’s Emile -- that extraordinary book on education, beside Hernani and other plays and books actually set down in the catalogue.
You know, as the time approaches for me to be a
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high and mighty senior, my mind misgives me for everyone says I look so young that I won’t inspire freshmen with any awe at all unless I wear black and [uncertain], and my hair done just as high as I can on the top of my head.
Betty is already absorbed in The Bishop’s Carriage -- she is excitedly telling Barbara French about it this minute. It is cold and un-spring like again to day, and my nose is getting red with a cold. I
wish it would hurry and get warm and stay warm. Oh, my, Betty’s reading it out loud and it’s too exciting to miss!
Farewell
Slews of love
Peg.
Mad at her sister
Fanny Bell will get her man for Founder;s Day
Courses in [M]
Bishop’s Carriage
POUGHKEEPSIE, APR 14 10AM 1904 N.Y.
Miss May Louise Shipp
1010 North Delaware Street
Indianapolis
Indiana
INDIANAPOLIS, IND. APR 1230PM 1904
Dear Mamie
If you got no letter from me between Tuesday March 5, and Monday March 11, the mails are at fault for I wrote one the middle of last week. I appreciate your missing the usual two letters a week, but I cannot appreciate your sending me a succession of snippy horrid notes such as I’ve gotten in the last two days. You needn’t talk about notes instead of letters! I’m sorry you dislike my being sleepy much of the time, but as that is the
case I can’t remedy it. I have been exceedingly busy ever since I came back from Roxmor, and I thought you might realize that and be tolerant of notes -- especially as I wrote so many letters from Roxmor. I have done absolutely nothing but routine class and study work. I have seen no people, heard no news, and thought no thoughts -- interesting subject matter to transcribe on the whole -- distinctly it is not so! My one bright day of gladness has been Falstaff, and Miss Keys conversations about the same.
Edith Tallant came in
just now with a copy of In the Bishop’s Carriage which she said would be mine if I’d write a review of it for the Miscellany -- funny isn’t it that I should happen to get the copy sent by the Bobbs Merrill company to the Vassar Miscellany! That book and the Shipp family seem fated to bump into one another. It certainly is racy and bound to be popular -- but why, oh why does the Bobbs Merrill Company always have such fiendishly ugly covers for its books! “The Yoke” isn’t quite as bad as the rest, but most of them are truly awful. The only really decent cover they ever made was for the Main Shakespeare and Other Essays.
It won’t be long now until the Founders Dance. Of course I won’t have a very exciting time having no man, but Fanny Bell may have two and in that case I am to help entertain one of them. They are her cousin Martin Faris, and his partner in law, Robert Fulton. I s’pose U’ll have to have my
white dress pressed for the occasion. The girls have begun singing outdoors between dinner and chapel these days and it is most enjoyable.
We have more interesting reading to do in French -- much biography, and essays; Voltaire, and part of Rousseau’s Emile -- that extraordinary book on education, beside Hernani and other plays and books actually set down in the catalogue.
You know, as the time approaches for me to be a
Open configuration options
high and mighty senior, my mind misgives me for everyone says I look so young that I won’t inspire freshmen with any awe at all unless I wear black and [uncertain], and my hair done just as high as I can on the top of my head.
Betty is already absorbed in The Bishop’s Carriage -- she is excitedly telling Barbara French about it this minute. It is cold and un-spring like again to day, and my nose is getting red with a cold. I
wish it would hurry and get warm and stay warm. Oh, my, Betty’s reading it out loud and it’s too exciting to miss!
Farewell
Slews of love
Peg.
Mad at her sister
Fanny Bell will get her man for Founder;s Day
Courses in [M]
Bishop’s Carriage
POUGHKEEPSIE, APR 14 10AM 1904 N.Y.
Miss May Louise Shipp
1010 North Delaware Street
Indianapolis
Indiana
INDIANAPOLIS, IND. APR 1230PM 1904
