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stay at Mrs. Gilman's and enjoyed
every minute of it and are
in love with Stanford. Edith
Cullen! is to marry a Nelson
Phelps sometime before the
year is over; she has been
engaged to him for six years.
ever since she was sixteen.
Friday all of Epsilon Chi went
to San Jose when Laura Mann
Charlotte Philips, Florence
Park & Mary Brunton were
formally initiated. I stayed
with Gertrude and the rest,
nearly all, at the Maclarens
where we had such a lovely
evening.

x x x

Was interrupted by Mr. Pitcher
calling - we spent the afternoon
in walking about the arboretum

To continue with the San
Jose story. The Maclarens did
anything imaginable to make
the evening delightful, and
the next day, I took my
silk waist & linen skirt
to be made at Miss [illegible]
to-gether with a black
taffeta waist for Theodora.

It simply poured all day
so I spent the afternoon indoors
with Gertrude & took the [S? 5?] train
home. She was perfectly lovely.
mended my petticote for me
that isn't wearing well at all -
and was such a trump.

She gave me one of her
framed Rome photos. The last
comunion of St. Jerome. I
have it already hung. This