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Dear Girls, The thermometer has been at 100* today, and even at 100 -+ * and now at 5 oG��clock it is nearly 97*, but school must not be neglected in consequence. I enclose the photograph of an applicant received today. Precious and altogether lovely as it is, we have decided to risk sending it in the mail. Please return it as she may ask for it. She says she is Parisian and one of her endorsers says her knowledge etc. are much superior to the GǣpluralityGǥ of our teachers. By all means we say, let Mlle. LePoids come, but we hope the thermometer will be lower. I wonder how what you call intense heat does compare with ours! We look for Miss TraverG��s letter with interest. My letter for Huxley was dispatched eight days ago. Miss LockeG��s letter is not encouraging. I do not envy Mamie the task of replying to it. By the way, is Minnie quite sure that the schedule is still in the pigeon-hole? In her envelope the other day came the schedule. We had kept a copy, so shall I return this, or have you a duplicate? I will write Harry today about the advertisement, asking him to have it put in for a month. Will Minnie please send me some more Bryn Mawr programs, as my last went today? Miss PrudellG��s ten S.C. shall go to her tomorrow. I regret to inform you of the calamity that has befallen this unhappy committee in the shape of a very unsuccessful text in the dove-plate. The size is all right, but the text is not elegant. When it is cooler, we will see about changing it. Julia has sent the postal to the interesting James Hunter, directing to care Miss Brackett and says when she has recovered from her prostration of today, she will send Minnie the directions for the orange balls. 10 P.M. MinnieG��s and MamieG��s letters received. I think we had written - one of us - before, that we hoped Mamie would ask her to come. Of course any date we can make to suit, as we are in the spot, partly for this very purpose. The 28th will suit us perfectly for Mlle le P. and the 29th for Mme. with the long name, whom we decidedly approve of seeing. Julia will also write to Mlle. Diedrich, but can not very well arrange for the time of interview until we know the time for Mlle le Poids. Please write saying what you have done about this. We could arrange for Mlle. D. to come on early and see us by say 10 A.M., then return at once to Philadelphia; but you can arrange much better all that, as you are dependant upon trains, while we can be in at any time. Of course you will manage so that the two French individuals from Newport will not encounter each other on the train or at the hotel. Please let us know by what train Mlle. le P. will arrive and all particulars, so that we may arrange to meet her and engage her room at the hotel. In regard to the plumbing, I am very sorry that Mamie is annoyed but I do not see how we could have done differently, except in writing a report more promptly, as nothing could have been done. You left on Friday and on that same afternoon we saw Walther here and found that Mr. Thomas was to go through the school house with him the next day, Saturday. Brown did not return to town until the week was begun, when we could hardly call in an expert to interfere with work already in process and under the management of BessieG��s and MinnieG��s fathers and MinnieG��s uncle, when it was their house and not ours and they said it was to be done in the best manner. We did as much as we felt we possibly could, in going over it fully ourselves and finding out its exact condition before the work was begun and afterwards and talking the whole thing over with the plumber. Minnie had not mentioned to us that she would get her father to interfere if we could not or did not get Mr. Brown, and had said that she had done as much as she could she thought in the matter, and feared she had already made herself disagreeable. I only go into the explanation because we have not been careless and I donG��t want it thought we have been so and in order that a comparison of dates may prove that we did all we could without interefering unwarrantably. Of course Minnie could have interfered with better grace with Mr. King or Dr. Thomas than we. So much by way of explanation. Tomorrow morning we go again to see how it is progressing and hope to find it all satisfactory. Here I must suspend my interesting communication. I will report further tomorrow. Affectionately, Mary E.G.
Letter from Mary Elizabeth Garrett to M. Carey Thomas, July 20, 1885
Mary Garrett writes to both M. Carey Thomas and Mamie Gwinn, who are both at Blue Ridge Summit. She writes at length about candidates for the Bryn Mawr School, hoping that Thomas can arrange for the candidates to come to the School to be interviewed. She also informs Thomas and Gwinn of the current state of the plumbing at the School. No envelope included.
Garrett, Mary Elizabeth, 1854-1915 (author)
Thomas, M. Carey (Martha Carey), 1857-1935 (addressee)
1885-07-20
8 pages
reformatted digital
North and Central America--United States--Maryland--Baltimore Independent City--Baltimore
North and Central America--United States--Pennsylvania--Franklin--Blue Ridge Summit
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M. Carey Thomas Papers, 1853-1935 --http://archives.tricolib.brynmawr.edu/repositories/6/archival_objects/98852
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Letter from Mary Elizabeth Garrett to M. Carey Thomas, July 20, 1885
Mary Garrett writes to both M. Carey Thomas and Mamie Gwinn, who are both at Blue Ridge Summit. She writes at length about candidates for the Bryn Mawr School, hoping that Thomas can arrange for the candidates to come to the School to be interviewed. She also informs Thomas and Gwinn of the current state of the plumbing at the School. No envelope included.
Garrett, Mary Elizabeth, 1854-1915 (author)
Thomas, M. Carey (Martha Carey), 1857-1935 (addressee)
1885-07-20
8 pages
reformatted digital
North and Central America--United States--Maryland--Baltimore Independent City--Baltimore
North and Central America--United States--Pennsylvania--Franklin--Blue Ridge Summit
BMC-CA-RG1-1DD2
M. Carey Thomas Papers, 1853-1935 --http://archives.tricolib.brynmawr.edu/repositories/6/archival_objects/98852
BMC_1DD2_ThomasMC_Incoming_0027