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1908-03-15T00:00:01Z-1908-03-15T23:59:59Z
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: VCL_Letters_MacCoy-Marjorie-Newell_1908-01_1908-03_041_012_001
March 15, 1908
Dear nice Family-
I was glad to get Jean’s nice letter on Friday, and Dad’s nice one on Saturday, and know that you were all having a grand time and that spring was really far along. This week we have had perfectly great weather, and I think we soon will lose even our little scraps of snow in the sheltered places.
Friday afternoon there was a granddaughters’ tea in Senior Parlor that was charminly [stupid] but we had a good enough time till [Miss] [unreadable] came in and she made it even better. That night I went to the dress rehearsal of Beta
Dear nice Family-
I was glad to get Jean’s nice letter on Friday, and Dad’s nice one on Saturday, and know that you were all having a grand time and that spring was really far along. This week we have had perfectly great weather, and I think we soon will lose even our little scraps of snow in the sheltered places.
Friday afternoon there was a granddaughters’ tea in Senior Parlor that was charminly [stupid] but we had a good enough time till [Miss] [unreadable] came in and she made it even better. That night I went to the dress rehearsal of Beta
: VCL_Letters_MacCoy-Marjorie-Newell_1908-01_1908-03_041_012_002
Chapter play, as I couldn’t go yesterday p.m. to the regular performance. It was “Poor Dear Momma” from Kipling’s Gadsby stories and they did it pretty well. Of course they only had a week to work on it, so it didn’t hang together any too well. Val Atherton was Gadsby and she was a perfect fright! The men in the scene at the dance were all good - Louise Hooker was one of the best looking ones.
Saturday morning I went over to the gym. [gymnasium] to try for Omega chapter play, as I had been [bidden] to do, I found they were going to give the Shakespeare “Pyramus and Thisbe.” They made me try for the Prologue at first, and then I asked to try for Pyramus, and then they let us go, and
Saturday morning I went over to the gym. [gymnasium] to try for Omega chapter play, as I had been [bidden] to do, I found they were going to give the Shakespeare “Pyramus and Thisbe.” They made me try for the Prologue at first, and then I asked to try for Pyramus, and then they let us go, and
: VCL_Letters_MacCoy-Marjorie-Newell_1908-01_1908-03_041_012_003
when I was deep in [unreadable] one of the Committee came [trotting] into my room, and said they wanted me to be Pyramus! It will be quite fun, I think, and as rehearsals only last a week, it won’t take too much time. But the best event of the week is that I got a note from Anna Strickland saying that she is to be in N.Y. [New York] next week, and so I think she will come up over next Sunday. Isn’t that grand? I am fairly jumping up and down with joy.
The ticket man is going to be here next week, and I will buy my 30 [day] - excursion from him. Do you want me to use mileage or not? I guess I can borrow somebody’s mileage to check my trunk
The ticket man is going to be here next week, and I will buy my 30 [day] - excursion from him. Do you want me to use mileage or not? I guess I can borrow somebody’s mileage to check my trunk
: VCL_Letters_MacCoy-Marjorie-Newell_1908-01_1908-03_041_012_004
on if you want me to buy my ticket in N.Y. [New York] to Phila [Philadelphia]. They are so forehanded in this place! But it makes the house coming seem even closer. Hooray!
Do you realize that the long looked for and hoped for [Maid’s] Clubhouse is formally opened, and that the [unreadable] is now in charge of it? I am going over it on Tuesday with our nice elevator girl here in Raymond; they say it is perfectly sweet inside, and it is mighty attractive outside. It is light brown plaster - in a kind of Mexican style.
Well, I must stop. Love to everybody, and a “Welcome home” to [Marion] Clothier from me when you see her.
Lovingly
Marjorie
Do you realize that the long looked for and hoped for [Maid’s] Clubhouse is formally opened, and that the [unreadable] is now in charge of it? I am going over it on Tuesday with our nice elevator girl here in Raymond; they say it is perfectly sweet inside, and it is mighty attractive outside. It is light brown plaster - in a kind of Mexican style.
Well, I must stop. Love to everybody, and a “Welcome home” to [Marion] Clothier from me when you see her.
Lovingly
Marjorie
: VCL_Letters_MacCoy-Marjorie-Newell_1908-01_1908-03_041_012_005
Postmark: POUGHKEEPSIE MAR 16 11 AM 1908 N.Y.
Dr. Alexander W. MacCoy
Mrs. William P. Logan
Overbrook Ave. and 58th St.
Philadelphia
Dr. Alexander W. MacCoy
Mrs. William P. Logan
Overbrook Ave. and 58th St.
Philadelphia
