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1909-09-19T00:00:01Z-1909-09-19T23:59:59Z
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VC 1911
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: VCL_Letters_MacCoy-Marjorie-Newell_1909-09_1909-12_041_001_001
Sept. 19, 1909
Dear Family:-
It is the most perfect day imaginable, and the Freshman have no possible cause to weep! They look like awfully nice people, and those here in Raymond are particularly so. I think I wrote that Gail and Kate Worcester’s sister Elizabeth is right down in 305, and she is a dear. I have found the two Southern girls that came from school - Frances Jewell and Dorothy [unreadable] - and they are both coming to see me this afternoon. Prexy preached the most gorgeous sermon this morning - he was at his
Dear Family:-
It is the most perfect day imaginable, and the Freshman have no possible cause to weep! They look like awfully nice people, and those here in Raymond are particularly so. I think I wrote that Gail and Kate Worcester’s sister Elizabeth is right down in 305, and she is a dear. I have found the two Southern girls that came from school - Frances Jewell and Dorothy [unreadable] - and they are both coming to see me this afternoon. Prexy preached the most gorgeous sermon this morning - he was at his
: VCL_Letters_MacCoy-Marjorie-Newell_1909-09_1909-12_041_001_002
very best, and I only wish he would do the same kind of Baccalaureate addresses!
Everything is still fairly confused, and I feel as if I had been here for months already. There really is no news, but work begins tomorrow, and so I suppose things will settle down.
Elizabeth Thelberg is really in college, and is rooming in North, with a friend of hers. “We Juniors” have sung on the steps twice, and can scarcely contain ourselves for pride!
Lilias and I took a walk this morning, and since then I have been removing grasshoppers from my person,
Everything is still fairly confused, and I feel as if I had been here for months already. There really is no news, but work begins tomorrow, and so I suppose things will settle down.
Elizabeth Thelberg is really in college, and is rooming in North, with a friend of hers. “We Juniors” have sung on the steps twice, and can scarcely contain ourselves for pride!
Lilias and I took a walk this morning, and since then I have been removing grasshoppers from my person,
: VCL_Letters_MacCoy-Marjorie-Newell_1909-09_1909-12_041_001_003
and have found 3 already.
I was glad to get Jean’s letter and hope you are all as well and happy as I am.
Affectionately
Marjorie
I was glad to get Jean’s letter and hope you are all as well and happy as I am.
Affectionately
Marjorie
: VCL_Letters_MacCoy-Marjorie-Newell_1909-09_1909-12_041_001_004
Front of card: Miss Marjorie Newell MacCoy
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Back of card: Junior Year
