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Dearest Mary, The plans came yesterday. Mamie and I looked over them and took them over to Bessie where we left them hidden away in her bottom drawer for her to look at at leisure; she had too bad a headache - and stomach ache - to examine them then. She is very wretched and Annie is wretched also but with the clear weather I hope Bessie will revive. I do not think we can write about the plans but when I see you there is a good deal I should like to say. I do not know about Bessie and Mamie. I am sure you will try to forgive me for not approving of them quite as much as you do. You would not have to try if you knew how much I hate to disapprove of them. You have been so sweet and good to me, Mary, that we must try to agree to disagree, if we do. Let us once discuss the plans fully and perhaps your arguments may overcome my objections - indeed I feel so little impulse to object that my convictions will I fear find an unadroit mouthpiece in me. I feel for the school as a mother is said to feel for a delicate deformed child - it has cost so many throes, so much of Gǣdear timeG��s wasteGǥ, and that now when it is settling and establishing itself (as we hope) for life we must all do our best by our troublesome offspring. I confess nothing seems to me at present more of a trial than differences of any kind. Your note from the Vendome came last night and was very nice to get. Thank you for it. I am glad you are again in New York and I hope your quest is satisfactorily finished and that things will soon be a great deal brighter. The time goes so slowly that I suppose I could write letters every day and feel that things to be chronicled had happened. Mamie has been reading StevensonG��s Memories and Portraits while I clipped extracts and I understand for the first time why he is the GǣLyly of the timeGǥ. It seemed to me an absurd epithet before. She has received her final recall today and goes down tomorrow without reprieve to go, I fear, to the Elberon. She asked me to give you her love. Stevenson says one thing so true, and I trust you will receive it as an explanation and an apology for the monotony of my letters. The subject of all talk is: Gǣthat I am I, that you are you, and that there are other people dimly understood to be not quite the same as either. Wherever talk may range it still runs half the time on these eternal lines. The theme being set each plays on himself as an instrument.Gǥ , but at present there is neither much music, nor excellent voice in this little organGǥ so I will stop. Remember my letters are written in accordance with my promise and do not need answers - only take care of yourself as an answer for that you should be you is important to I that am I. Lovingly yours Minnie C. Th
Letter from M. Carey Thomas to Mary Elizabeth Garrett, August 22, 1888
M. Carey Thomas informs Garrett that they have received "the plans" and have given them to Bessie. She says she cannot speak about it in the letter, but will tell her in person. She says she feels like a mother of Bryn Mawr. She discusses the books Mamie is reading.
Thomas, M. Carey (Martha Carey), 1857-1935 (author)
Garrett, Mary Elizabeth, 1854-1915 (addressee)
1888-08-22
7 pages
reformatted digital
North and Central America--United States--Pennsylvania--Montgomery--Bryn Mawr
North and Central America--United States--New York--New York
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, August 22, 1888
M. Carey Thomas informs Garrett that they have received "the plans" and have given them to Bessie. She says she cannot speak about it in the letter, but will tell her in person. She says she feels like a mother of Bryn Mawr. She discusses the books Mamie is reading.
Thomas, M. Carey (Martha Carey), 1857-1935 (author)
Garrett, Mary Elizabeth, 1854-1915 (addressee)
1888-08-22
7 pages
reformatted digital
North and Central America--United States--Pennsylvania--Montgomery--Bryn Mawr
North and Central America--United States--New York--New York
BMC-CA-RG1-1DD2
M. Carey Thomas Papers, 1853-1935 --http://archives.tricolib.brynmawr.edu/repositories/6/archival_objects/98852
BMC_1DD2_ThomasMC_Outgoing_0144