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Shipp, Margaret M. | to Father, 17 December 1901

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1901-12-17T00:00:01Z-1901-12-17T23:59:59Z
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VC 1905
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vassar:56344,Box 12; VCL_Letters_Shipp-Margaret-M_1901-11_1901-12_012_016
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: VCL_Letters_Shipp-Margaret-M_1901-11_1901-12_012_016_001
Tuesday evening Dec 17.
Dearest dad,
Four more days! Cans’t live till then? I don’t know whether I can or not but I’ll try to for your sake! I herely send you the check for my trunk which I intend to send ahead on Thursday so it will not be in the grand mix up that there will be at the station on Friday.
When you get the

 


: VCL_Letters_Shipp-Margaret-M_1901-11_1901-12_012_016_002
trunk (it will come on Friday I suppose), sister has a key and can open it and take my clothes out so they will not get mussed but under no conditions must she open any of the little packages inside!!!
I haven’t time to write any more now, except that I think sister ought to take Eloise to the station when you go to meet me.

 


: VCL_Letters_Shipp-Margaret-M_1901-11_1901-12_012_016_003
You know Mr Lyman always takes me when Eloise is going away or coming home.
Good bye now, honey. If I have time I’ll write again but this will probably be my last effusion for the present.
With Peggie’s love.

 


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Plans to going home
Eloise Lyman
POUGHKEEPSIE DEC 18 9 A 1901 N.Y.
Mr Joseph P. Shipp
1010 N. Del. St.,
Indianapolis
Indiana

 


: VCL_Letters_Shipp-Margaret-M_1901-11_1901-12_012_016_005
INDIANAPOLIS. IND. RECEIVED
DEC 19 PM 0[1]