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Dearest Minnie, At last you can retrieve my reputation (to that extent) with Bessie by proving to her that the letters all went to Dr. Stevenson! Her letter came today and rather seems to prove that B in some way got mixed about the desire for a letter for the WomenGÇÖs Club. It seems too bad that you should have spent so much time over it all probably to no purpose. Dr. S.GÇÖs letter does not sound very promising. I return your enclosures, although I doubt whether you want most of them. Please mark enclosures GÇ£returnGÇ¥ or GÇ£destroyGÇ¥ so that I may know. I wonder whether all the enclosures arrived in the envelope I enclose received tonight? Once more you see it arrived open and contained only Mrs. DavisGÇÖs note, Mrs. SterlingGÇÖs letter, the form of notice and the Kate Field things (about which you are certainly very good), and nothing at all from you. I am disgusted that my Nation has not come this week. WonGÇÖt you please let Miss Child address a copy of The Nation with your letter, one of the Evening Post with their editorial and one of the last Nations for Mr. William Johnston, 21 Water Street, Liverpool, England Putting in the corning of each GÇ£from Miss GarrettGÇ¥, and mail them as soon as may be. Mr. Godkin certainly has done well. If you would only ask him now to follow up his editorial by an appeal for the Fund in Post and Nation! Nothing would do more good, I am sure. DonGÇÖt you want to write a letter to the Associated Press asking the Press throughout the country to appeal also, or to get someone to do it, if you are not willing. Certainly the meeting was successful judging from the financial result. The difficulty will be I fear inside of Phil. that people will object to its being confined to local institutions, but the scheme sounds practical now and was worth some trouble. I wish I could do more, but I can only say $250, and I think it is better to say conditional on the whole amount being raised. Let us hope that the J.H.M.S. will some day have some of the beneficiaries! I enclose an item you have probably noticed. To go back for a moment, certainly this is not only the moment, but almost the last moment to get the press to do something for us so please try hard. I cannot as yet give a very cheerful account of myself, but am hoping for better things. It rains unfortunately nearly all the time. Yesterday I tried the one drive for the first time, but the storms had made it frightfully rough. I shall try sometime this week to get my courage up to riding, as I can go with Miss Day and Miss Thurston when they begin. I sent home for my habit, but I donGÇÖt feel either they have a very enterprising about it, but it is a the one way for me to get exercise enough to be a benefit, for I can walk so little and of drives there is but the one. The little Italian string I am delighted to have. Darkest England I had invested in at the Station the night I left and had read with very decided interest. Are you sure you donGÇÖt want it for someone else? I hope tomorrow evening may bring your letter of today, but fear it can hardly come before Tuesday, as mails are slow and uncertain here. With love for Mamie, Yours, Mary E.G.
Letter from Mary Elizabeth Garrett to M. Carey Thomas, February 15, 1891
Mary Garrett writes to M. Carey Thomas, commenting on a matter of tension between Garrett and Bessie King regarding the sending of letters to a Dr. Stevenson. Garrett encourages Thomas to talk to the press about the Fund and their scheme.
Garrett, Mary Elizabeth, 1854-1915 (author)
Thomas, M. Carey (Martha Carey), 1857-1935 (addressee)
1891-02-15
9 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_0201