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Dearest Minnie, Your postals and the two boxes of tea came last night. It is a shame that you should have spent it, but I shall enjoy it very much, but I should take much more satisfaction in it if you could share it with me. I am so glad you really got off. I fell asleep last night thinking of you both and hoping that the drive Sara had been as magical as ever, that the Tristan and Isolde was as perfect on Friday night as by all accounts it was on the first night it was given last week. How I wish I could have been at both! Monday, 2nd I was too tired after going over rather a fussy big mail last night to go on with this and today am a victim to dyspepsia so will only send a few business notes. First, I am so sorry I did not write at once as I meant to, to say to of course order the electric clocks just as soon as you ready to, and also to order the rest of dressing rooms. You know the only reason the clocks were not ordered last year and put in before school opened was because you said you thought you could find out better about them and asked me to let you do it, and then, not unnaturally, I suppose you forgot about it. I am so sorry about the measurements for book cases. I was sure I had left them lying together. At the same time they are ordered, donGÇÖt you think it would be well to order a mineral cabinet for the science room (the [illegible] room) to run along the wall under the window, made of gum to correspond in height and finish with the closet that is already in there at the front of the stairs, but properly planned for a mineralogical collection? Miss Brickford could tell you about the details. Could Margaret work this out with her and have the drawings made? Then my beautiful old rosewood one could be varnished. DonGÇÖt forget about reading table also for library. Perhaps one of the Library Bureau tables would answer well for that. I think they make them almost any length and they will finish wood to match. You can tell probably by catalogue. DonGÇÖt you girls think the book cases and other furniture for that room ought to be oak? It is so much more substantial as well as so much prettier. I hope the casts arrived safely. Miss McDowell said Margaret was there the last afternoon she was and that she said they seemed to be in good condition. Also I hope you will all like them. Is there anybody you can write to in Boston to get working drawings of the pedestals for the things we have that need them for theirs. They are the best I have seen, as to proportions and they are such hideous things when they are wrong. I should think if you do not know anyone that Mr. Robinson, who has charge of the Classical casts, would willingly have it done at our expense. Of course the cheapest way might be just to have them made there and shipped to Balto. You could give the list (after getting the list of the new ones, if any) of the things that need them - exclusive of course of the Parthenon [illegible], for theirs is with the rest of the predominant structures naturally. There are very few. There are some broken casts from the Freres Chretiens lot, I think, 6 or 7, that were put away after you spoke. Can Margaret get Gureschi to come up and look at them some day and let him take away any that are worth mending to mend, of course arranging about the price with him? If you girls were going to be at home this week and to have a few spare hours, it would be quite delightful if you could get all these new casts in place. You could have Cain to help at any time. But if you do not feel like it, I will see to it after I get back. I hope there are some things that will look well in those places over the mantel in reception room. And now about the Medical School for a moment. If the money is not to be given until May 1st, would it not be better to correct the press on that point, as if they go on saying March 15th, when that date is past the outside public will think it over and done. I enclose a couple of clippings from Balto. papers and you will of course notice the item in the Boston WomanGÇÖs Journal of last week in which they mention the date. Surely as it is to go on for 2 months longer, you will think it best to issue some sort of an appeal, through the Associated Press or in some way, for if nothing is done and no public explanation is made of the continuance to May 1st, when the March 15th date has been given so much publicity, the thing will be in a very [illegible] prehensible shape to people and I fear nothing will come of it, whereas it is just possible that a well organized press campaign might bring some result. I hate to have it drag on so hopelessly. I do hope your St. Louis people will do something. I see that the Times have been in Balto. and have been dining at Mr. PrattGÇÖs with the BartlettGÇÖs. How I wish we could get some of the people who appear on enclosed list so subscribe. Miss Hitchcock is I think a friend of Miss HobbGÇÖs and the one whom she was so anxious to have asked to serve on New York Com., hoping that she might become interested. Of course, we couldnGÇÖt ask her, as it was after it had passed out of our hands. Both she and Miss Thorne I should think might be prevailed upon and also the Misses Cooper if properly approached. They are the ones who are on our N.Y. Com. and are very rich and do not take any part in the maintenance of the Cooper Institute, so that they have not that tax on them. Mrs. Percy H. Pyne is also very rich. Look over the list and try to have some use made of it. Have you heard anything more from Miss Tuckerman? You must not send me so many novels they are too much of a temptation. These last stories of KiplingGÇÖs I am perfectly delighted with. I think it is time to stop both for the sake of your patience and your eyes. Lovingly yours, Mary E.G. Where shall we put the State of Exilers and the Elensis bas-relief? Have you the GÇ£Odd NumberGÇ¥ in the French?
Letter from Mary Elizabeth Garrett to M. Carey Thomas, March 01, 1891 - March 02, 1891
Mary Garrett writes to M. Carey Thomas, thanking her for the letters and the tea that Thomas sent to her, and wishes her well on her time off. She then discusses the furnishings that still need to be purchased for the Bryn Mawr School. She also addresses the Medical School fund, proposing that they have the press correct the date they had given as the deadline for the funds, so as to not confuse the public. She also asks Thomas look over the list of potential donors and see if something can be done with them.
Garrett, Mary Elizabeth, 1854-1915 (author)
Thomas, M. Carey (Martha Carey), 1857-1935 (addressee)
(approximate)1891-03-01 - (approximate)1891-03-02
14 pages
reformatted digital
North and Central America--United States--North Carolina--Madison--Hot Springs
North and Central America--United States--Pennsylvania--Montgomery--Bryn Mawr
BMC-CA-RG1-1DD2
M. Carey Thomas Papers, 1853-1935 --http://archives.tricolib.brynmawr.edu/repositories/6/archival_objects/98852
BMC_1DD2_ThomasMC_Incoming_0206