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Dearest Mamie
Thanks so much for the General Joy Program, and dag nab the Reader for not taking your Henry James article! The samples of your new gown are altogether fetching and those colors will be particularly becoming to you. Yes, I guess you’d better send the cape if you think it’s not too dirty to wear. As I remember it though it looked rather gray.
I spent yesterday afternoon
Well, here it is Sunday night and another twenty four hours has gone by, but nothing has been [doing]. I have eaten three meals, read two stories in McClure’s, part of Bernard Shaw’s Candida, and part of a Fabian Society tract by said author on the inconvenience of being a millionaire forsooth. The rest of the time I just sat.
Got a note from Eloise in which she said she was crazy about our “little two by four home.” Hope she’ll hurry up and come to Poughkeepsie. And don’t you give up coming. Has Mrs Griffiths gone to New York yet? Politics is the topic of conversation at V. C. just at present. I’ve decided there are too many republicans, so I’m going to vote for Parker.
Ruth McCullock was telling me yesterday about Constance’s saying she’d like an opera coat for next winter -- Mr Lewis sent to Chicago for the most beautiful one he could get, and he said
Monday morning
Thank you for sending the cape Mamie. You’re a duck and no mistake. Don’t do to much and get all tired out. Farewell
Slews of love to you both
Peg.
[Fabian Society]
POUGHKEEPSIE N.Y. OCT 17 5PM 1904
Miss May Louise Shipp
1010 North Delaware Street
Indianapolis
Indiana