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1904-03-13T00:00:01Z-1904-03-13T23:59:59Z
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VC 1905
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Sunday afternoon
Dearest Mamie,
Your letters about clothes and other things came, and I suppose the materials will arrive tomorrow -- I’ll take them right down to Miss Badgley when they do. I can’t talk about clothes to-day though -- it is so heavenly outdoors, and I was out in it from nine this morning till half past twelve. Such a glorious walk I haven;t had in ages. Now I’m sitting right in the sunlight fairly drinking it in.
I heard some interesting news the other day which perhaps isn’t news to you. The [Wignn] girls
Dearest Mamie,
Your letters about clothes and other things came, and I suppose the materials will arrive tomorrow -- I’ll take them right down to Miss Badgley when they do. I can’t talk about clothes to-day though -- it is so heavenly outdoors, and I was out in it from nine this morning till half past twelve. Such a glorious walk I haven;t had in ages. Now I’m sitting right in the sunlight fairly drinking it in.
I heard some interesting news the other day which perhaps isn’t news to you. The [Wignn] girls
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are both engaged, Gladys to Mr Elliot, and Iris to Alyn Wilhaims. You must tell me all the gossip Mamie -- I have to go to Cerene for interesting scandal usually!
I’ve decided about my vacation and I’m so happy in the thought of it I don’t know what to do! I can just scarcely wait for the time to come. Forty two Vassar girls, most of them Seniors, with Dr Harley and Miss Haight as chaperones, are going to charter a little hotel at Rocksmore in the Catskills, just a little way from here. We will have the
I’ve decided about my vacation and I’m so happy in the thought of it I don’t know what to do! I can just scarcely wait for the time to come. Forty two Vassar girls, most of them Seniors, with Dr Harley and Miss Haight as chaperones, are going to charter a little hotel at Rocksmore in the Catskills, just a little way from here. We will have the
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place all to ourselves, and girls who have been there before say it is ideally beautiful there, way up high right in the midst of the mountains. The fare there is a dollar each way, and the hotel rates eight dollars a week! We’ll all go together on Friday to stay the twenty fifth and I imagine I shall want to stay the whole ten days (until Wednesday April 6) as the others expect to. There is baseball, croquet, ping pong and mountain climbing there -- Dr Harley has planned some lovely walks, and altogether I expect to have the time of my life -- just imagine the joy and bliss of forty two delightful girls together in a beautiful place, with nothing to do but have a good time!!! Sally Duke and Margaret Thistle are going. The manager of the party is Nancy Owen, a Southern girl from Kentucky, and one of the very most attractive and popular of the seniors. It costs about eleven dollars to that at college over vacation, and it won’t cost more than five dollars over that to go to Rocksmore, and just think of the fun! Do by all means send the Bishop’s Carriage -- I want to read it and
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also to have it to lend to some of the girls. This is all now, Slews of love
Peg.
Peg.
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Afterthoughts
I went to a fudge party last night in Helen Morganthou’s room and had a [bully] good time -- people when they ask me to parties nowadays always add “and will you bring your banjo Peg?” I’m really getting very proficient as an accompanist. I’ll have to take it to Rocksmore I guess, which place by the way is right out of Kingston, so I’ll probably have a chance to see some of the annals of our ancestors.
I went to a fudge party last night in Helen Morganthou’s room and had a [bully] good time -- people when they ask me to parties nowadays always add “and will you bring your banjo Peg?” I’m really getting very proficient as an accompanist. I’ll have to take it to Rocksmore I guess, which place by the way is right out of Kingston, so I’ll probably have a chance to see some of the annals of our ancestors.
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Plan for sp. Vacation
Rocksmore Arrangements
POUGHKEEPSIE, MAR 14 930AM 1904 N.Y.
Miss May Louise Shipp
1010 North Delaware St
Indianapolis
Indiana
21.
Rocksmore Arrangements
POUGHKEEPSIE, MAR 14 930AM 1904 N.Y.
Miss May Louise Shipp
1010 North Delaware St
Indianapolis
Indiana
21.
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INDIANAPOLIS, IND. MAR 15 2-PM 1904
