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[typed] Saturday Jan 9-'97

My dearest Nannie -

My dearest Nannie - I forgot I called you that once and absent
mindedly have written it over again but I mean it a whole page full.
Your letter came just about an hour ago and I have been grinning
over it since and reading parts of it about the pictures to the
girls. Helen Younger has been moving down from the 4th to the 2nd
floor so we are near neighbors. She has been fixing up her room and
I have been helping her. Her room-mate - Mary Caldwell a freshman
& relative of Marguerite Sabler - has almost as many pretty things
as Helen has, & their room has assumed already a very Bohemian &
artistic air, it has been great fun, & we have fixed pretty studies
by burning the edges into rich brown odd shapes - a trick I picked
up from one of the boys at the Rho Eta House. This is such a glo-
rious day. We certainly are having a heavenly winter! Last Monday
I started out to make calls in Palo Alto in my new suit that I like
immensely. I found Mr. Teggart was sick in bed, I suspect she is
on the verge of enlarging her family. Mrs. Angel, Dr. Angel told
me was in Boston and as he said had gone shortly after the ("Opera"
or card party they gave. Mrs. Gilman - Mrs. Cullen's sister - was
not at home neither was Miss Darrah the excellent Education teacher.
In the evening Alice Colt and I called on Dr. & Mrs. Stillman & of
all my list they were the only ones home. Tuesday we registered &
made out our programs for this next semester and Wednesday lectures
began again. We are beginning Hamlet. It is so far now most dif-
ficult & thorough Shakespere study. I am not going on with Hudson's
class as it makes too many hours and though it is deserted devoted
to Tennyson I think I can make a study of it myself some time. Other-
wise my course is almost the same except that I take Renaissance
Art History under Prof. Krieber instead of 18th cent. Hist. We begin
with Giotto. The girls feel very sad at the thought of leaving this
semester and I am happy in the thought that It is not my last quite
yet. Mrs. Baker our new matron is lovely she knows so many people
we know - the Cullens & the Lathrops & knew of Mama thru some of the
faculty ladies here. Did I tell you of the lovely call I had on
Mrs. Jordan. She inquired about you, & wished to be most warmly
. Did I tell you about Mr. Delamater's death just before
Christmas. It was the end of quite a long illness & feebleness.
What do you think Theodora is doing! She wants & must have the 400
paid Louise as soon as possible and in order to do so we couldn't
draw on our allowance. So Theodora is sending me 30.00 out of the
40.00 she earns each month, of course when I earn or get the money
I shall repay her, but think of my sister sending me thro' college!
My last letter from her said she was having a happy time with her
little "tads" coming back. She is really fond of her work and got
some useful hints from Miss Darrah & the teacher's institute. Oh
the Sohrab & Rustum paper is not worth sending. It was written at
the end of the term in a great rush & my main ideas was to get off
my hands. Helen took more pains with hers, and if I can persuade
her to let me send it I shall. Am going to call on Mrs. Fairclough
this afternoon.

Bye-bye
Your loving
Toodles.