Dearest Mary, If your house were not the empty shell it is perhaps I should be talking to you in your sitting room just before going to my train, which leaves in an hour-- and so in memoriam you shall have a tiny greeting. I am as tired as a mortal can well be for I left Bryn Mawr at 7:44 a.m. yesterday and talked steadily in the train and then Father met us and me went over the schoolhouse and then I rushed to see Mrs. GwinnGÇÖs and thrice to JuliaGÇÖs on school business, unpleasant of course (by the way you quite understand Mr. Nitze has had Mrs. Colvin and the Justice of the Peace matter indefinitely postponed) home to lunch and a long talk with Father afterwards, then to Dr. HurdGÇÖs (ours). There are a lot of questions for us to decide about her and I and it might be better for you not to see her before I see you. She is to be here all the holidays. Then Mrs. Brune and from her I found out Mrs. Reed is very unwilling to have anything to do with Mrs. Winslow, so I will write her a letter declining and send it to you to read and forward if you approve. I have written to Mrs. Reed, and then the theatre with Harry and afterward another conference with father and today Frank King and talk talk talk. Tome was here, at hospital, all yesterday and nothing is to hoped from him, they think and no more ought to be said to him. Mrs. Tome is playing false. The Pleasants matter is I hope stopped. Father is as energetic as I could wish and everything is in train. He has set just the proper balls rolling. As for my laboratory I have decided the piece is too heavy to lay and I have definitely given it up. He put it on an impossible basis and I am utterly disgusted with being a woman and all the rest of it. I think when I tell you the details you will think I have done right. There is too one misprint in circular and a very serious correction was not made by Bridges GÇ£in the judgement of the trusteesGÇ¥ should have been substituted for in GÇ£their judgementGÇ¥ but it will I hope be properly understood. So it does not matter. I wonder how you got through the reception on Saturday. It was very wrong of Mrs. Fields. Please donGÇÖt go into that sort of thing if you stay longer as I hope you will and please let me know when you have definitely decided for letters etc. This is a horrid, horrid letter but ex nihilo nihil. I leave to return Saturday morning probably; unless you have other orders. And-- there is my train time approaching. You got my arguments reversed-- it is much less assured-- it is a plea for caretaking because you you are loved not because you love. It is ShakespeareGÇÖs GÇ£oh therefore love be of thyself so waryGÇ¥ etc. and please think of it sometimes. Yours, Minnie C. Th.
