Untitled Page 102

[written] Theodora 2 a - b I

[typed] Sept. 8, 1895

My dear Nannie-

Rose has just let me read her letter to you, and while I
have been keenly interested, yet I feel poorly equipped for
writing my letter to you, since she has expressed it all so well:
but I am not going to break my promise the very first Sunday I
am here, and besides we want to know when you can come down and be
with us a few days. Our little room is cozy and we are very happy
in it.

So you didn't approve of the Japan idea. Nothing in this
wide world would have prevented my going had not the business made
it imperative that I be here. Mr. Goshey says that since we could
not make terms with-_____ there would unquestionably be a suit,
which I held up my hands in horror at but he says it is the best
way to settle the whole matter: that their demands are simply
highway robbery and that he nor anyone else would advise us to pay
her outrageous demands. He said that there was nothing that I could
testify to and that I probably would have nothing to do with it.

Rose looks very sweet in her duck suit- and I am wearing mine
too.

Lida Liet has just arrived and gone to the music room to
practice. She is to practice four hours a day besides her college
work!

We are all longing to begin our work - as yet we have only
gotten our courses arranged.

Won't you spend Wednesday with us? Josiah Royce lectures
some time during the day but the hour is not yet named; nor do I
know the subject, but it will be well worth hearing.

Gertrude was going to give you a ticket any way, as she took