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My haste made me so illegible that I will begin again on a fresh page. I did not tell you all my reasons for wishing you if possible to visit me on the 2nd of February. I wish you at least consider them. Remember that your going abroad will prevent our seeing each other at all in the summer, even an embarrassed hour before the disappointing Holman Hunts. This makes me very anxious to have you at the most favorable time. This time is the only one in all the year that I shall be at Bryn Mawr during term time when I can devote myself exclusively to your entertainment. I wish to show you, while your mind is directed to genus, some few of my interesting people and an hour or two of the new professorsG�� work, and Walt Whitman, and the pictures I liked so much that are to be seen on Thursdays. Mamie and I have talked your visit over. She will go to Baltimore on Tuesday the 1st and stay till Friday when she is going to visit Mamie Travers at the Farm, whence she will return on Sunday night in time to see you before you leave. I despair of keeping you longer but I wish you to stay a week at least. You shall fill out no bills, and assist in writing no lectures. The cold weather is no reason because everyone says the storm you witnessed was so exceptional that since G��58 its like has not been known and our weather there is no colder than here usually, besides I have a new board walk all the way, to the door of Taylor Hall and William, my weather prophet, says after January the back of the cold is broken. You can go to Boston first, spend two weeks there, and stop on your way back, or you can go to Boston on the 8th or 9th of February and put off Miss DeForrestG��s visit for a few days. Ladies of leisure must bend to ladies with a career. If you will do it I will make a great sacrifice. I will hear Miss Davies two days in the interval between the 1st and 2nd semesters (I have just thought of it) probably the 10th and 11th of February. I shall have no lectures to prepare in advance on account of this recess. Please excuse haste and again this pen and ink - philanthropists do not seem to have good ink and your pens, which I have been using ever since you lavished that box upon me, were left in Bryn Mawr. Think over my reasons. Please try to arrange it and do not decide at once in the negative, which is your first impulse. I want you from the 1st to the 8th; and I know you can bend circumstances if you think it even a little worthwhile. You need not fear that the subject of your GǣveracityGǥ will ever come up again. I did not thank you for your New YearG��s note. I do now. It was very nice in you to write it. Things were a little out of touch this afternoon, but you read very sweetly, and I very wretchedly; the Princess and the bookbinder seemed vaguely remote. My absence of mind made me stay too long. I trust you pardoned me. You might perhaps leave the final chapters for Bryn Mawr unless already delivered; it is horrid to give up even so slight an enterprise. I shall have the new interpretation of the Sonnets worked out by that time to present. I was enraptured by finding a contemporary squib in which Shakespeare is called GǣdeformedGǥ, thus proving in the face of Shakespeare critics that Sh. was GǣlameGǥ. But there must seem to you more vaguely and far off than Lady AuroraG��s hat. Yours with regret for such an inky scrawl, Minnie C. Th.
Letter from M. Carey Thomas to Mary Elizabeth Garrett, 1887
M. Carey Thomas discusses the weather, her travel plans, and college matters.
Thomas, M. Carey (Martha Carey), 1857-1935 (author)
Garrett, Mary Elizabeth, 1854-1915 (addressee)
1887
5 pages
reformatted digital
BMC-CA-RG1-1DD2
M. Carey Thomas Papers, 1853-1935 --http://archives.tricolib.brynmawr.edu/repositories/6/archival_objects/98852
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Letter from M. Carey Thomas to Mary Elizabeth Garrett, 1887
M. Carey Thomas discusses the weather, her travel plans, and college matters.
Thomas, M. Carey (Martha Carey), 1857-1935 (author)
Garrett, Mary Elizabeth, 1854-1915 (addressee)
1887
5 pages
reformatted digital
BMC-CA-RG1-1DD2
M. Carey Thomas Papers, 1853-1935 --http://archives.tricolib.brynmawr.edu/repositories/6/archival_objects/98852
BMC_1DD2_ThomasMC_Outgoing_0106