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Write at once whether the Vermonters meets next Friday. Very important that you answer this letter immediately.

F.J.P.

do you more good. Never mind what papa says, whwen the time comes, he will let you go without objection.

You say you drowned your lonsomeness in a glass of soda water! My purse is to empty to permit a similar recourse to commit my homesickness to oblivion. By the by - next Friday I go home, dont I? Friday night is Vermonters, isn't it? Nver mind sending the papers down. Just send the literary page of the Call.

Good bye

Fred.

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Stanford, Sept. 12, '97.

My dear Mama:

Your letter was received last week, and with it the stamps. I thought last week that I would be compelled to send for ten dollars more but by borrowing books I have been able to scare away the ghost and will therefore wait until I go home before getting those ten $$. We were told, and when our professors tell us, it means compulsion, to get two law books costing $10.35, so you see it would take up all my spare cash to obtain the