Letter from M. Carey Thomas to Mary Elizabeth Garrett, May 14, 1889

Dearest Mary Here are some time tables - of course the 4 P.M. is the ideal train that connects for dinner; likewise at Powelton Ave leaving New York at 4:30, or indeed the 6:30. Whatever train you can catch I will meet in Philadelphia. I should very much like you to come on sometime Saturday so that we might have a whole day Sunday. You see even if you could catch the 9 A.M. limited on Sunday morning, you would have to wait over in Philadelphia till 11:45 and it is half past twelve before you get here. If you miss that it is night before you get to Bryn Mawr. So try to take at least the 6 P.M. Remember how the whole of my Tuesday afternoon went in a Committee meeting and 2 hours of Wednesday in a business talk with you which had its alleviations but was still business. Bessie writes that she cannot come till Wednesday so of course I should be delighted if you could stay but Monday is not Sunday even then as I have 2 lectures. Mrs. FranklinG��s letter I enclosed Julia in a Committee Letter. She may possibly come and with her Miss Scott and the great unknown GǣarchangelGǥ we can face the world. Will you not excuse great haste. Five students have punctuated even this short letter. Did I tell you BessieG��s misunderstanding of something you had told her gave me a bad first half an hour with her - and my watch having stopped must have made you think me exceedingly careless, as I had told you I had an engagement at 12. I forgot to explain. Tuesday afternoon