Miss Clemes will probably not be appointed here. I concluded not to assume the theological responsibility and we are about to put in another candidate whom I had held in reserve - and I donGÇÖt know what to say now that it comes to the point - whether to pay her passage and say $300 as trial this year - giving her the secretary work and promising nothing beyond the possibility or whether to let her go, still I thought I would write to you at once so that you might at least make no permanent secretary arrangements until we had thought further about it. I have asked Aunt Hannah to ask Lord Mount-Temple for the plans - of course requesting her to say nothing about it. It was chivalrous, worthy of a paladin of old, to avoid saying the name of Annapolis in your note. I wonder why I always mis-spell to you - no sooner did the postman of Champery start down the mountain with my letter to you on his back than I remembered that I had made Mr. Hoffman feminine - perhaps it is because I am thinking of your golden room. I am sorry you could not go to Annapolis but perhaps I should be truthful enough to tell you that it looks now as if I could not have got off possibly, but instead I will write you a nice long letter on the typewriter - if I feel tired enough to lie down so long - I thought over what you said about Bessie McCall; it never had occurred to me that she would notice whether I went or not. I decided that I could not go - you see because I can defer lectures it does not seem right to do what I should be displeased at any oneGÇÖs else doing - and our lectures here are never deferred, except for illness; then too it is not undergraduates but graduates, four of them, who do nothing all day and night but study Anglo Saxon and what would happen if their daily meal of me were deferred I do not know, but I wrote her instead a very cordial letter and have parted with my dozen spoons, alas. This was intended to be a line but it is many, and I fear, not to [profit?] as my associate secretary has been talked to throughout it. Will you tell me whether Jennie Delane is to visit you this month and if so whether she will be in Baltimore next week or the week after, that is Saturday the 22nd or Saturday the 29th (do not tell me if she is not to come, that is you need not write in that case) because I shall come home either on one or the other and I have seen you so little for the last few months that it would be a pleasure to have another talk although not such a long one. I hope you were not very tired as for me I have had to sit up every night since till 12 or one and I have got up every morning at half past six, so it did not matter. One thing very nice I have discovered - my graduates altogether represent a total of 147 years (40 + 40 + 35 + 32) and I know a great deal more than they do. It might just as well have been the other way. Yours lovingly, Minnie C. Th