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The Lotus Club
235 Emerson Street
Palo Alto, California

Stanford University Calif.
Oct 11, 1904.

My Dear Birdie:-
Here comes that letter you have been looking for. So you want to know all about the reception at Mrs. Stanford. Well four of us boys from the Club went together, and took straight across on her private drive. It was as dark as pitch but that did not matter, as I knew the way quite well and we sang Stanford songs till they could hear us three miles. [When?] we arrived, we found a few there ahead of us. In entering I shoved the door a little to one side to get by, and in doing so it evidently touched a knob and started a little music box going, which was hid away somewhere in the corner. Mrs. Stanford met us in the hall and escorted us into the Library. In a few minutes the entire seventy of us were there, but we all felt rather awkward, and the girls got on one side of the room and the boys on the other, and we looked at each other. Mrs. Stanford tried to get us to mix but we would not mix that is just yet. She led us into the Parlor where we sang America, but when we got back into the library we were no more mixed than before. But some ladies who belonged to the house learned our names and took us around and introduced us to the girls and soon we all felt at home. Mrs. Stanford and the new organist each made us a speech after which we went to the dining room and had supper. We had plenty to eat, lemonade, ice cream,