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[typed] March 29 '97 Monday afternoon

My dearest Nannie

Your dear good letter reached me this morning and I am so glad you
are in New York feeling like a bloated millionaire; tho' I suppose before
long you will be going back to . A week ago Saturday Theodora and
I went to San Jose just for the afternoon to see about selling the furniture
your dear precious letter was such a help and comfort. In my judgment
it is by far better to dispose of those things that we nomads can now not
afford to move with us or store. We did little in San Jose beside having
a satisfactory wi talk with Mr. Gosbey whom I like very much. As you said,
the things of Mammas are ones to dispose of as we choose and the proceeds
do not go into the estate. The books, pictures, busts, grandma's chair,
tea, chair and his d chair are probably all that we shall save.

Theodora went back to San Mateo and I here when our weeks vacation
began. Sunday Mary Brunton and I were asked to dine at the Sigma Nu house
where we also spent the evenling. The next day (Monday) the Sigma Nu's
came for a number of us in a four-in-hand and we went into the hills for
a picnic and home again by five o'clock. It was a lovely drive and we
went through Woodside - the little village where the football men have
secret practice a week before Thanksgiving and our way back was by Redwood
City and the county road. The next Thursday Epsilon Chi invited Mrs.
Rice and Mrs. Plate to go with us up to King's Mountain House in honor
of Mrs. Haskell who goes home soon. We had a coach and four and started
quite early. It proved to be a cloudy day but the drive was the most
pleasant. We rode through such lovely woods and saw quantities of wild
flowers - cyclamen, soap lily, tulium wild violets white and yellow
and maidenhair. We reached King' mountain at about twelve and had such
a great big dinner not to mention the view which was beautiful. The
Mountain house is right on the summit and from its ridge we saw HalfMoon
bay and the ocean. The fog began to settle into big drops and while we
were at dinner it rained quite hard. I made things a little more exciting
by losing my purse with a couple of dollars in it but Billy the driver
found it, which made me feel very rich. We simply flew down the mountains
in the way back and came home through Belmont reaching the campus about
half past six very dusty, happy, and hungry after a forty mile lark.

Mrs. Rice was a Utica girl and went to Miss Kelly's school along
in the fifties. She did not know Mamma but knew many people whose names
were familiar to me. Saturday and I went to cheer up Lolie- it stromed
the minute I reached San Mateo and I found her in the midst of her flock
keeping demerit hour. She looked too pretty for anything in her new black
taffeta shirt waist and was surprised out of her wits to see me as she
didn't expect me till Sunday. We are enthusiastic about taking summer
school work at Pacific Grove so many are going down and we can do it econ-
omically taking botany and possibly entomology. Kitty and Jessie Haskell
with possibly their older sister Florence, Mrs. Beedy, Ida Wehner and her
mother , Gertrude Payne, Lolie and I are the possible party.

I came back Sunday evening after having been at the service in the
morning - it is such a pretty one, all the boys uniformed and gloved.

Kitty Haskell and I are enthusiastic about teaching. You see we
take our degrees or rather finish our work Christmas so our experience
begins at the same time. Dear Miss Darrah has asked us down to her home
to talk schools with us - she is so lovely - one of the brightest women
and an educational leader, she offered to write any letters I might need-
which will mean a great deal to me. The snow is way down in the hills and
the wind is stinging cold but the sun is out and I guess the storm is over.
Tomorrow Helen comes back and brings a plum pudding and pineapple jelly-
just think of that. The Encina boys have been taking their meals at Roble
as they always do in vacations, and some of them nearly always dine with us
to make it jolly - there have been two or three pokey little dances too.
Bye,bye my dearest nannie Your Rose. P.S. Miriam sends love so does Alice
Colt and all of Epsilon Chi.