Stanford Student Letters and Memoirs

[written] 4(Rose) 8

[typed] Sunday evening, Oct. 6, 1895

My dear Nannie,

I have just two sheets of paper left so will take an exercise in condensing. One of your postals, the North Platte one, did not reach us till to-night as it was taken from the box by one of the girls who misplaced it. Another that your letter refered to has not come to us yet. How crowded with human experience your trip was. I am so glad you arrived safe and sound and found poor Aunt Tad with something to keep her mind occupied. Theodora and I have had a happy week. N Nothing out of the ordinary nature till Friday evening when four girls- Edith Straight, Kitty Haskell, Marylyn Maine and I, and Herbert Straight, a Mr. Bell, and Young and McNeil and Strohnere went bicycle riding by a harvest moon. It was the most beautiful thing I ever did. It was as bright as day and we rode clear to Redwood City and back- fifteen miles! Before we got home I could mount and dismount with ease to say nothing of colliding with equal felicity with my partner Mr. McNiel. We had an awfully jolly time. Saturday Laura and Grace Clark came down in the evening to study but we went to the Sophomore and Freshman football game and had another good time. In the afternoon Bessie Blossom, Kenneth Macintosh and I went over to the musuem , but Mr. Nights had gone to New York to study law so it wasn't any fun to look at the museum and jugs. In the evening quite against my will, I went to the Fresh.-Sophomote reception and had only a "fair to middlin"time. It was some fun to awe the little Freshmen but that was all. Their badges were a minature bag of salt. The soph. were a little red mortar board. I, as an Xmas junior needed no badge! This morning Edith Straight, Kit Haskell and Alice Hayes and I went to Palo Alto to church and stayed to communion. Miss...(Second page missing).

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