Stanford Student Letters and Memoirs

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[typed] he read the "Confession" "Respectability,and Christina and one or two others, just to give us a taste of the shorter poems, the rest was a talk and sketch of Browning. In French we are just beginning Balzac's Eugenie Grandet. In Anglo-Saxon, MSS from King Alfred's Pastoral care and the Legend of St.Andrew. There are various reports and opinions of the Big Game and the seats are now on sale. Oh, I hope we win. Tomorrow we, Bessie Blossom, Helen Younger make our party call at the S.A.E.'s I have just been assorting our French Rev. syllabi, as soon as I can, I'll forward them.

Yours loving Toodles.

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[typed] Monday Morning

It was a tie! Wasn't it too bad that we didn't win, but we came very near it, five minutes before time was called, the score was six to nothing in our favor. All the girls are back now after their outing, and everyone is glad to be back again in Roble. Thanksgiving night the girls roasted apples, cracked nuts and told stories. Saturday night they gave a very informal dance and I wore my dear little fresh dinite sans guimpe and had a lovely time. I enjoyed my vacation very much and got my mending all done and my story copied for miss Hardy and a table cover almost done.of Madge's Christmas. Poor Lolie didn't have a very good time in the city, but her sealskin collarette was a great success. The next three week's are to very full of exams and hard work. Don't worry about us, our eyes are all right and we never think of them. We have Pippa Passes next Sunday. Anderson does not like and compares his love with the love portrayed in Shakespeare's sonnets - sonnet 81 - (I think he ( ) talked too much to be a true man. In French Rev. we have been studying the writers of the period + Voltaire, Rousseau, Diderot and Montesque - now bye-bye.

Yours...Toodles

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[typed] perfect La France roses and a mounted glass covered photo of Reynolds Angels Heads for use, with a fried chicken, biscuits, butter, olives,and pickled peaches - what a feast. We had dinner in our room. Table decorations roses and beautiful violets and maiden hair from Theodora and Miriam Maclaren with slated almonds and box of Maskey's choisest for dessert - just think what those two girls did + its a lesson to humanity and they went on the 8 o'clock train, and afterwards Miriam, Helen, Alice Colt and Felice Cohn came in and feasted on the rest of the chicken, cake, olives, crackers, candy and nuts. After they went I studied my verbs and now it is midnight and I must say good-night but first with unexpressible love to and thanks to my Nannie and a prayer that I may become worthy of all the lessons the past twenty years have taught me not the least of which is you noble generous life. I must not leace out that we have a most cordial invitation from the to spend the holidays with them and also from Mrs. Myrick for Gertrude, Theodora and I to spend Xmas with them, both of which we may accept. And now I am going to sleep to dream of my good-fairy Nannie , of al the things I haven't been, and all the things I'm going to be and of one of the most surprisingly happy birthdays imaginable Your 20 yr. old Toodles.

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[typed] We had such a lovely letter from Mrs. Bliss who has been traveling about in the West Indies. Theodora heard also from Cousin Mary Tuckerman, her family seems to be just the same as usual. Bishop Nichols confirmed a class in Palo Alto today. I didn't go down as I thot it would tire me and I couldn't afford the afternoon for resting. The lenten services have been twice a week in the afternoon just at the time I have gymnasium work, which I couldn't arrange at a different time. What a pleasant time visiting you have had, and now I suppose that you are roaming about Bunpey Hollow & the Lake road but you can't find a more heavenly place that this with its blue hills & green fields flecked with poppy gold. Have not seen Gertrude & not heard from her as I have been a scamp about writing. Mrs. Myrich dropped in on us the other day & stayed over night. She sent much love to you. Prof. Anderson is just the same old dear that he ever was. To-night Sankey sings in the chapel. Theodora & I are going to hear him--do you remember when she heard Moody in Chicago. That reminds me that we got got August Treder's wedding cards. There goes the dinner bell--

Bye-bye

Your Toodles

March 15 - '96 Roble Hall.

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[typed] March 24 '96 Roble Hall

My dearest Nannie--

Your letter came to-night and I simply can't go to bed before I write you even though it be on theme paper. You poor dear Nannie, I am so sorry we have been so bad about writing, there is no excuse for such naughtiness, and I am resolved never to do so again. We are having our weeks vacation now. Theodora has gone to San Jose for a day or two to see about affairs there, and I had decided to stay here, as I had my vacation a while ago, and have not been doing my heavy work all term. I shall probably go down to Mrs.Myncks for a change before the week is up. I find this a gay place in vacation time. There have been two dances already, and tennis to-morrow. The first--the dear divinity has very successfully figured at, and me for itself many compliments, thanks to its sweetmaker. Gradually I am making up what I missed when absent, had a very easy examination in W.Rev. under Dr. Howard last Friday in which I aspire to my sisters standard of 95o/o , Am now, working on a thesis for Prof. Anderson, on the last fourteen years of Milton's life in connection with the Restoration. This place is perfectly beautiful now, the fields are a cloak of gold, and the foliage of the vales so dainty and new, with the balmiest of weather to throw a haze over everything-- ! My Lenten dilema is over, as Said Pasha is postponed till after Easter, a week after the opera comes Junior day, which is going to be the finest day on record, farce in the morning in which Laura, Charlotte Phillips and I figure in one scene only, not being principal performers; In the evening is the Junior promenade which your niece is to lead with Mr. Herme--think of it, and in my same little organdy that Theodora brought from the Islands. There is to be a very fine edition of the Sequoia--the Stanford weekly, for which I have been asked to contribute a best effort, and for the illustrations for its center picture I am to pose. I am surprised at this req uest as I have never written anything that anybody ever heard of. As for the pose the face is not knowable when published, so I don't mind. My shirt waists have quite unexpectedly failed me, and I find I have but three to finish the term with, the winter has been so warm, that I have worn shirt waists entirely. Theordora has given me her three lovely pieces--two pink ones & one blue one and is going to see what Mrs.Brown a very good seamstress will make them for, as I simply must have them, and it is impossible to do any such thing oneself here. We are looking forward to keeping house this vacation, and then the sewing I am going to do! Without buying a single new thing but using the materials we have. Last week we mailed a transferancy, hoping it will be a reminder of the dear old quadrangle, and I do hope it will reach you safely and in time; we have not been able to get a frame for it in San Francisco, someone[written] suggested a ribbon frame as a substitute but did not know that you would like it. I think I could write to my Nannie, all night, but the lights are going out.

They are gone

Bye bye till morning--

Toodles