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1907-12-06T00:00:01Z-1907-12-06T23:59:59Z
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415 R. at V.C.
Dec. 6, 1907
Dear Family:-
Typed transcription of page 1 of letter………………………….
I think I must be crazy, for here it is Friday and I haven’t yet written you a mid-week letter!
Tuesday afternoon I got silly and went in the pool! It was more fun, and you needn’t be scared about its depth, for the water is only up to my mouth at the deepest end. I gambolled gaily around and had a fine time. That evening Mary C. and I were blessed with an invitation to Miss Taylor’s to dinner! Weren’t we proud? Prexy and Mrs. T were both out to
Dec. 6, 1907
Dear Family:-
Typed transcription of page 1 of letter………………………….
I think I must be crazy, for here it is Friday and I haven’t yet written you a mid-week letter!
Tuesday afternoon I got silly and went in the pool! It was more fun, and you needn’t be scared about its depth, for the water is only up to my mouth at the deepest end. I gambolled gaily around and had a fine time. That evening Mary C. and I were blessed with an invitation to Miss Taylor’s to dinner! Weren’t we proud? Prexy and Mrs. T were both out to
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dinner, so we had a fine time and acted as silly as anything. There was a nice open-fire in the sitting-rooms, and I can tell you we hated to have to leave it for the convivial joys of a register and steam heat.
Wednesday afternoon Katherine Taylor and I had the nicest walk. It was a [unreadable], cold, gray day, with a powdering of snow on the ground, and we came back just about sunset -- time to hear a recital of “Peer Gynt” and the music that belongs to it. The man who gave the recital was a Norwegian whose English pronunciation was very hard to understand, but the music was simply beautiful.
Wednesday afternoon Katherine Taylor and I had the nicest walk. It was a [unreadable], cold, gray day, with a powdering of snow on the ground, and we came back just about sunset -- time to hear a recital of “Peer Gynt” and the music that belongs to it. The man who gave the recital was a Norwegian whose English pronunciation was very hard to understand, but the music was simply beautiful.
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Beulah Baker sang one of the extracts that was simply exquisite; I don’t think I’ve ever heard her sing better.
Yesterday afternoon Miss Taylor came over to see if I would come to tea and meet Miss Lucy Bartlett. It seems that [Fayette] when he was here had palavered to her about me, and so she labored under the delusion of wanting to see me. She seemed very attractive, although I didn’t get much of a chance to talk to her, as a whole lot of Seniors came in to pay their party calls, and I was on the other side of the room from Miss Bartlett. She ask for Jean right away, and
Yesterday afternoon Miss Taylor came over to see if I would come to tea and meet Miss Lucy Bartlett. It seems that [Fayette] when he was here had palavered to her about me, and so she labored under the delusion of wanting to see me. She seemed very attractive, although I didn’t get much of a chance to talk to her, as a whole lot of Seniors came in to pay their party calls, and I was on the other side of the room from Miss Bartlett. She ask for Jean right away, and
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wanted to know what she was doing, etc. I went to dinner with Dorothy Jessup in North last night, and as usual had a fine time. Right after chapel, Martha Bowie -- 1908’s president, had a meeting in her room of all the class presidents, and we did have the nicest time. We just discussed different things about “our respective classes” that happened to come up.
Tonight the Kneisel Quartette [Quartet] is giving a concert down-town and I am going, with Margaret Brady. Poor Mary can’t go out at night on account of her ear, which is better but not well by any means.
Please tell me what you want
Tonight the Kneisel Quartette [Quartet] is giving a concert down-town and I am going, with Margaret Brady. Poor Mary can’t go out at night on account of her ear, which is better but not well by any means.
Please tell me what you want
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me to do about my ticket going home? Am I to use mileage and [Thirty]-day excursion to N.Y [New York] from Poughkeepsie,so that I can check my trunk all the way through? The travel slips have to be made out by Monday, but I’ll make mine out and then go change it if necessary later. They’re more bother, anyhow, than they’re worth. You see I can’t use a trip-ticket because they won’t check [on] that.
I am awaiting the arrival of the trunk momentarily. I guess it will get here soon.
Two weeks from today! Hooray!!
Lots of love
from
Marjorie
P.S. This letter is addressed to
I am awaiting the arrival of the trunk momentarily. I guess it will get here soon.
Two weeks from today! Hooray!!
Lots of love
from
Marjorie
P.S. This letter is addressed to
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Jean because I happened to have an envelope addressed to her already, it belongs to the family (The letter, not the envelop.)
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POUGHKEEPSIE
DEC 6
5 30PM
1907
Miss H. Jean MacCoy
Overbrook Ave. and 58th St.
Philadelphia
DEC 6
5 30PM
1907
Miss H. Jean MacCoy
Overbrook Ave. and 58th St.
Philadelphia
