Letter from M. Carey Thomas to Mary Elizabeth Garrett, February 13, 1891

Dearest Mary, Oh the trials of this life. Enclosed find note from Ume and my occupation for the last two afternoons at a meeting I went to this afternoon $1000 was subscribed. I hoped Miss Tseuda write her speech and draw up her plan which was altogether I flatter myself effective. It went off exceedingly well and the plan we proposed was definitely accepted by the ladies. $8000 to be deposited in the hands of a permanent committee here, the scholarship to be competitive in different cities of Japan and the choice to be entrusted to a committee of Japanese ladies and gentlemen nominated by Miss Tseuda to the permanent committee here. Thus it will be out of the hands of the missionaries. The object of the scholarship is to be threefold - if collegiate at Bryn Mawr, if medical at the Womens [sic] Med. of Penn, if industrial at the Drexel Institute. This was definitely decided on. It has been a terrible trouble but it seems to me the scheme is saaved and a more grateful little creature than Ume I have seldom seen. So if you wish to make a (conditional)(subscription) on the whole amount being raised now is the time, as there are only to be three more meetings and the whole amount is to be raised if possible by the 20th. Miss Tseuda undertakes to raise enough in Japan to pay the journey expenses of the candidates and their incidental expenses; as this will amount to $800 a candidate it is a considerable contribution. Later - Thursday - it is my afternoon and I hoped to be able to get off a little scrap to you - but such hords [sic] have been here that have had no time and now fortified by tea, which on Thursday afternoons is a temptation to me even if no one comes as this afternoon no tea visitors I mean - I will end in the second of time left. I hope you will like Darkest England, and such a sweet little story The Hince by the Midlar Tree I will mail tomorrow. It is all Italy and of all the rest of it in a nutshell - that is all the depths. I will write you a long long letter on Sunday though I have still 60 exam papers to correct. Miss Child is here and is still going over and sending out open letters. Godkin did well for us did he not in his editorial Friday Just a note to enclose GildenGÇÖs letter and my answer reprinted in Evening Post. I am delighted with Godkin. He only waited you see to see how we answered the attack and then followed it by this editorial endorsement which appears in this weeks [sic] Nation. I hoped he would reprint it from evening last and he did. The School circulars are not ready yet. I have ordered them. I asked Miss McDowell to send me some of your writing papers for notices of meeting, and the envelope with med. particulars etc. Mrs. Davis has not answered about meeting yet. As yu saw Mrs. Brune and I were already in correspondence you see. Here is Dr. Hurd. Is she not absurd. Tear up this unutterable scrawl - only keep the love with which it closes. Tell me on Sunday how you are. Yours