Stanford Student Letters and Memoirs

[written] Mar 15 '97 16

[typed] Speaking of the art questions, Mr. Vickery sent down an exhibit of photogravures of the Hermitage collection in St. Petersburg - mostly Van Dykes, Rembrandts, and Murillos. The exhibit was in Roble Parlors Friday and was very fine with two of his most ladylike men to explain things. What fun the book party was. I am completely mystifyed by the puzzle you sent me as are all the girls. I have not read the .......and think your idea was so cute for it. Don't worry about the board. LI only realize it isn't good when I really have something good to eat out.

In the midst of my sentence one of the girls called for me to go to a feed in her room - cocoa and cake and crackers and jelly. I left them singing to finish my letter. This Lent I am making an effort to do all those things which I ought to do rather than going without for it seems to me everything in this last college year is too valuable to miss though I don't think I shall indulge in any very large function.

Bishop Nichols sermon was so good a week ago very much finer than Arch bishop Weber's last Sunday. It was a very good antidote for any such feelingas as some old sailor is quoted as expressing in his dying prayer "Oh God if there be a god, save my soul if I have a soul".

Next week is vacation which I expect to spend here doing at my leisure some back German and some Chaucer. We are reading the Canterbury Tales now - the most interesting of anything yet, and Dr. Flugel brings such quaint illustrations to class. In Shelley we have had read Queen Mab and now are reading Prometheus Unbound. I have not done much of the assigned work yet but shall get at it now that this Hamlet ex. is over.

Wednesday we begin another Othello in the Shakespeare class. Did I tell you we are on the second part of Faust? Dr. Gretel is such a wonderful interpreter. I wonder if when you are in New York you could get me an inexpensive ready made shirt waist - no. 34. and tell me how much and I can enclose the paper money. I have liked my pink shirt waist best and it hasn't faded much either, though one of my blue ones is getting very shabby. My blue serge skirt I got this Xmas is cut the bell shape and though I didn't like it at first I am getting used to it. The editor of the Sequoia has promised to mail me the number we want but hasn't done so yet. Don't youl like the new small sleeves? Oh my pink organdie waist is lovely - just a baby waist but darling.

The lights are going out so must say bye bye hoping the shirt waist will not trouble you as that is what I am most in need of -

Lovingly Toodles