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Tell everyone a merry Christmas from me, especially the Hughes, Loomises, Durley's Baileys, Gertrude and the Kennedys and Lora if you see her, Pattersons, Mr.Sampson, Mell and Emery and really I can't name them all but mean them all. O Yes! the Lymans.

And I hope my own dear sister may have a very pleasant Christmas.

Your loving
Lucy Allabach

Palo Alto, Cal.
December 26, 1892

Dear People,
This is my second Christmas at Palo Alto and it also has been a very pleasant one. Our little card party, Christmas Eve passed off very pleasantly. The house had a very pleasant and cosy aspect when lighted and trimmed with holly berries. Of course the crowd was a good looking one and a merry one also. We had four tables arranged, three downstairs in the two little parlors and one up in our study. We had expected to play six-hand, but the eight from the Theta house were unable to get here and also some others, because of the very rainy weather we have been having. We played cards till about ten, then instead of prizes we made the booby feed the winner lemon ice on her knees. Then the whole company wrote poetry about the winner, who happened to be Miss Morton, our next door neighbor,