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My darling, Here I am going to my Jap. Sch. Com.at 3 and to see Edward Bettle at 4:30 and prob reaching home very late and very tired. If I cannot convince Edward Bettle I shall either have to refuse the presidency or wait till there is another vacancy to make my struggle. David Scull claims that with my father and my uncle on the board and myself a woman whom undoubtedly as the Trustees are but human it is difficult to oppose, more difficult that the Trustees would have no independence at all. He says since my election many people have said to them GÇ£Phew wonGÇÖt she just manage the Board. YouGÇÖll do just what she wantsGÇ¥ and David Scull asked me with all gravity whether I thought that pleasant for the Trustees. You see it is complicated to a degree. David Scull was really so absurd and so sincere in his folly it was hard to meet his arguments. Later Club. 4:10 P.M. Well the Japanese Scholarship Committee is over and I have ten minutes before I go to Edward BettleGÇÖs. I am so glad you have decided to go on Sunday. It was the only right thing I am sure. You do not say whether the Dr. thought your Aunt Jodie could go away or not. I wonder if you did not walk about too much or your ankle causing it to hurt you so much and your headache was that my headache I wonder. Still - or had it another cause? This morning I was very tired but got through my office hours - lots of interviews. No time to dictate nor even to find Miss CanfieldGÇÖs letter to send you. Later 7:15 B.M. train going out What will Mamie think and then no dinner till 8 oGÇÖclock. And my dear I have failed utterly. He so disapproves of mixed Boards that he should rather resign than vote for me as Trustee. GÇ£Trustee ex officerGÇ¥ he will - he has practically promised me later. I believe with Alb Smiley away and David Scull and Ed Bettle dead against me I cannot possibly carry it. I think I had better bide my time and devote myself to getting as worldly a Trustee as possible appointed. Stuart Wood is my choice. He is rich, hunts in pink, is intelligent and young. I am sure I must give this special Trusteeship up. They will never offend Francis Cope who resigned on my acct by putting me in his place. It has made me ill almost but now I have done my very best and have failed through the combination of facts above all the fact that most of them would rather resign than have a woman a life member. I think it would be foolish to sacrifice the whole now to gain something I can gain later I am sure. Ed Bettle and David Scull have promised me unqualified support if I follow their advice and I think I must - there is no choice. I wonder if you know my beloved how sorry I am you are so tired and how I wish I could take you out of it all. Goodnight - here is B.M. and I am going to cross the bridge with this to catch the mail. I had to subscribe $20 to that [illegible] miserable Japanese Committee and I am disgusted with things in general. Many kisses my dear
Letter from M. Carey Thomas to Mary Elizabeth Garrett, January 15, 1894
M. Carey Thomas writes to Mary Garrett about her frustration that some Bryn Mawr trustees refuse to accept her onto the board. She writes that she has resigned herself to suggesting a man who will be another ally on the board.
Thomas, M. Carey (Martha Carey), 1857-1935 (author)
Garrett, Mary Elizabeth, 1854-1915 (addressee)
1894-01-15
11 pages
reformatted digital
North and Central America--United States--Maryland--Baltimore Independent City--Baltimore
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_Outgoing_0698