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[typed] Sunday morning - April 4-(97

My dearest Nannie

Your dear sweet note has just come. All week I have been meaning
to write to answer the questions in your last letter. Yes, the back
view photo and papers came safe and sound. The picture I shall keep
for my own. We have to write a Prometheus Unbound paper but as it is
for Prof Anderson, it will not be returned. All the girls have guessed a
and guessed at the book puzzle you sent - do send the anwer for we simp-
ly give it up.

Monday afternoon

Helen came in yesterday afternoon while writing and we worked on
our Prometheus paper and chatted till dinner. What a wonderful thing it
is.Prof A says the lyric at the close of Act II beginning "Life of Life
your lips enkindle" is the most beautiful lyric in the English verse.
With such a vision of radiant love and such a hope for the redemption
of this evil fraught and oppressed world it seems strange Shelley could
be believed an atheist - but of course he was an atheist only in his
rebellion against conventional religion of his age. It seems to me that
he was far too filled with divine visions to be the ineffectual though
beautiful angel that Matthew Arnold calls him. So far he is the poet
I have enjoyed most in this years study and we are not half through
with him yet. I think there is something fascinating about his boyhood -
do the y you remember the incident told in the memoirs of his setting
fire to the wood pile because he wanted a "little hell all his own"?
Of course that would tickle your "bandin villin"(?)

The past week has been very uneventful. Mr. Pitcher asked me to
go to the GleeI club concert to be given soon but I don't believe I
shall. What a great beig shame you should be ill with grip - of all
unguest-like things- when you go away for a good time. But perhaps
the change will help you recuperate sooner; you know me well enough to
know that I won't worry for I know you will get weell, only I hope it
won't make you desperately blue. Don't trouble about the shirt waist
too much - you see I don't know how expensive they are east - they
are very expensive here, and it does not pay to buy them when they
cost so much. The under-arm seam in my silk shirt waist measure 161/4
inches and is not a bit too long. My collare measure is 13 1/2 which is
the smallest size I could wear. I am so glad you are getting a pretty
suit. Would you have any use for that gray dress of Mama's that she
had fixed to wear to the Islands? The sleeves are about the proper
thing now, and it is as pretty as ever. If you would have any use for
it let me know and I will send it on, as it is just lying in the bottom
of the dress box. Do you know what ever became of that brocaded fren-
adine polonaise Mamma had? It had large velvet flowers in it. I may
be with the rest of Mam's things but I don't remember seeing it there.

Theodora and I happened to mention it last week when we saw each
other. There are just three more things I want and that is a fresh pair
of best white gloves - seeing as I never had any - some flowers to retrim
my bule coughlen had I resurrected last summer, and to trim myself a
leghorn hat with pink roses to go with my organdie. I hope to be able
at the endo of this month to go the city and make these interesting
purchases. The spring weather seems about settled now, and the fields ar
are golden with poppies and buttercups. The poppies show how much rain
has fallen for they are so large and satiny - one of their good years.