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Dearest Mary, I have by the clock only one miserable twenty minutes to write to you in and I scarcely know where to begin. We went to New York on Friday and got back last night at 10 P.M. I found your letter waiting and this morning Dr. Matzke Prof. Rom. Lang. at Univ. of Indianna [sic] whom we think of appointing in McCates place took up all my time; since I have been rushing through the most necessary correspondence and now all my long afternoon has gone. Your telegrams were not answered till late because when I arrived it was too late to send a night message. Nothing was said about any past or present or future plans of the Univ. Osler simply spike for 5 minutes about newer remedies of disease; it would have been important to [illegible] our fund in; Martin only about oysters, ditto. As Mrs. Martin was away I did not ask him and I was thankful afterwards. My note and messenger boy failed to find him; his house was closed. M. Elliott spoke on Romance studies and although I had asked him it was equally impossible. Altogether the whole occasion was naive and Arcadian and simple, wholly genre. Nothing was decided about when Fund should be handed over except as soon as it can be collected and before another meeting of the Committee on account of our arch enemy GÇ£old father McLaneGÇ¥ as Miss Davis calls him it must be handed over. You see unfortunately our pledges run till May 1st so the Committee really does have to exist till then, when one comes to think of it. BessieGÇÖs Executive Committee does not amount to anything for if we steadfastly refuse to go on it she says she will not either; it must rest on our shoulders. Do no worry about this. Now Mary dear I have just five minutes left to tell you you must not come back yet a while. Please do not - nothing is doing of any kind. The 15th of March is no date at all. Please stay long enough to let the baths have a fair show. I am so sorry about the long walk and its effect and about the difficulty of writing to me. Goodbye - I will continue tomorrow. Have I chosen right for my 20 minutes? I thought you would prefer med news to personal news. Yours lovingly Minnie C Th Answer to letter Feb 28 Mrs. Bartlett said Mr. Bartlett had offered to do nothing, and she could not press him and then she explained to me at length why. She said she felt ashamed to see a member of the med fund committee etc. I thought her genuine and I believe he may still give $1000 or something like that. Nothing more can be done, I am sure. Yes by all means write to Mrs. Tome if Mrs. Bartlett effects nothing. Mr. Grafflin both Mamie and I feel incompetent to deal with. We are sure he was interested primarily in getting the Church bought. I will however ask Bessie to find out through her last Committee (not mentioning your name of course) Yes, Mrs. Bartlett promised to see Mrs. Stranatan etc and try hard. Both Mamie and I think time should be extended and some such paragraph said I have already said in your name to Mrs. Washington and in my own to Mrs. Sterling. Please return immediately Mrs. Locklands [sic] letter I went to send it to Mrs Wister. It is tolerably wrong the newspaper article, but let it go. It will probably do more good than if right. Bessies [sic] letter was funnier than any letter of hers I have ever read - but how absurd of her to expect anything else when women like us deliberately stand aloof. Olive [illegible]GÇÖs words just express it. But I fancy it is quite bad when I find it impossible to work with the Collegiate Alumnae or even to touch them with the hem of my garment. Even the Pres. of Vassar who spent a day with me last week is as second rate and vulgar as he can be and knows as much about the college work or courses as any other stray clergymen. Mrs. Meyer is a Jewess and is they say a woman without much judgment but with great enthusiasm. I had a long talk to her last year. I fancy she would make a telling speech; but Barnard is experiencing the usual trouble of annexes. This year I hear from students there only the tutors of Columbia will teach for it. I only set Mr. Johnson a masked copy of Enemy Cost as my answer and attack etc had long since given out. Ought we not to have Godkins Editorial republished in slip form? My dearest Mary, is it not too bad? Another day and still no letter to you and your Saturday letter came this morning too Yours with love I will write this evening
Letter from M. Carey Thomas to Mary Elizabeth Garrett, March 01, 1891
Thomas writes that her time is being taken up with the hiring of a new professor and responds to Garrett's questions about the last medical school Committee meeting. She advises Garrett to stay away for longer and preserve her health, since no urgent business requires her attention at the moment. Thomas summarizes the Committee's most recent discussions and then writes about the difficulty of finding people in the administrations of other women's colleges who share her priorities and intellectual rigor.
Thomas, M. Carey (Martha Carey), 1857-1935 (author)
Garrett, Mary Elizabeth, 1854-1915 (addressee)
1891-03-01
16 pages
reformatted digital
North and Central America--United States--North Carolina--Madison--Hot Springs
North and Central America--United States--Pennsylvania--Montgomery--Bryn Mawr
BMC-CA-RG1-1DD2
M. Carey Thomas Papers, 1853-1935 --http://archives.tricolib.brynmawr.edu/repositories/6/archival_objects/98852
BMC_1DD2_ThomasMC_Outgoing_0313