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[typed] Easter Sunday April 18-97

My dearest darling Nannie

Have just come home from church and had dinner. The service was
a very lovely one though the music was poor. Yesterday Lolie came
down an just for the afternoon and brought the shirt waists and dear
lovely things. The collars are just what I have been wanting but
can't get anywhere in the city. The white stock is lovely with my
blue tailor suit - it and the cuff buttons with some white viotets
Lolie brought me constituted my Easter trimmings and I liked them quite
as well as any millinery display, I saw there. The little white tie
and the blue neck ribbon with the festoons of roses and the white
ribbon I kept too - also the longest petticoat - so you see I came off
with very much the lion's share especially as the shirtwaists are all
too small for Theodora and are just right for me except very long
waisted which makes no difference. A week ago today Gertrude came and
I have had a lovely week with her - a great many pleasant things came
up for her to do which she will tell you about, no doubt. Dr. and
Mrs. Jordan and Edith dined at Roble the night after she came and Mrs.
Baker asked Gertrude and me to sit at the same table with them though
only graduates were supposed to be there.

After dinner Dr. Jordan told the girls the story of the university
and it certainly is a pathetic history when one considers the brilliant
beginning and the clouds that so soon fell upon it, but now all the
greatest crisis are past and thanks to the wonderful self- sacrifices
of Mrs. Stanford and the clearheadedness of Dr. Jordan all is well.

Friday Prof. Anderson asked Gertrude and me to luncheon - an
invitation which we accepted in spite of its being Good Friday.
Mr. and Mrs. Washburn were there and it was the pleasantest thing
imaginable. Prof Anderson is lovely in his own home and Mrs. Anderson
appeared so bright and was so witty - we staid till four o'clock and
walked home through the Stanford grounds. Prof. Anderson saw Mrs. W.
off on the train and them caught up with Gertrude and me. The walk
is one I shall always remember - Prof. Anderson was so perfectly de-
lightful telling the [illegible] story of his teachings and his beginning-

Dr. Jordan found him his first position and they have been brother
professors before they came here. I have never talked with him about
my teaching and have always been afraid to broach the subject but I
screwed up my courage and suddenly asked him if he thought I could
teach. He paused quite a long while and you can imagine what the
suspense was - then he said "I think you are admirably adapted to
teaching" and after another long pause (I am horribly conceited to
tell this) he added "It would be enough for the pupils to just sit
and look at you", I replied something about that might not earn me a
salary but I was in such an ecstacy of delight that I did little more
than mumble. He went on to say a great many more lovely things and
to tell about the first time he met Mama and how he was struck by
her intellectual ability and with her beauty of character and how he
regretted that he was not able to accept her invitation to stay at our