Stanford Student Letters and Memoirs

[written] 5 (ROSE) 10

[typed] Sunday evening, October 13, 1895

My dearest Nannie-

Theodora tells me she has written her second letter to you this week and reminds me I am lacking in my record. So doubt she has told you all important events of the week so I shall act as Bulletin Supplement. We are all excited over examination I in French Revolution next Tuesday and my mind is densely befogged in Feudal Rights and Incidents not to mention direct and indirect taxation. Last Monday was rather a gay day for me. Alex Cotton and Howard Trinecto two of Grace Clark's friends were down from the city visiting "Baby (?)" Cotton, and they succeeded in taking up the 2nd and 3rd hours Monday morning by"treating" at Rices - the ice-cream center, and in squandering time generally. I had gone to French the 3rd hour, when there was a knock and Prof. Davidson said some one wished Miss Payne whereupon I walked out to find Grace, Laura, and the three boys, plotting an impromptu watermelon feast to which I immediately went regardless of French. We are reading, by-the-way, "La Mare au Diable" by George Sand a very pretty little story. Monday aftermoon Alice Cowen asked me to go riding in her pretty dogcart, and of course I went as I missed two rides with her before. We had a lovely ride to Menlo Park and around the university. Tuesday, I think it was, that Theodora, Laura, Miriam and I went to an interclass football game. Don't be too shocked to hear that we are all enthusiastic, for the first time in my life I found myself madly applauding. The joke of it is I don't more than half understand the game, and always cheer for any but my own class. I don't remember much about Wednesday so guess I studied. Thursday, squandered most of my morning with Tom, who had just heard from his father. He felt very flush so we went down to "Rices". I