Authors

Mary Metcalfe

Document Type

Personal Letter

Transcription

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Dec. 14th

Dearest Mommie.

So far we have not been given an assignment but I am sure that I shall get an out of town assignment, so I shall not be able to plan on Christmas with you + Davie. This being the case you had better make all plans to suit you + him.

Before I forget it, will you please send me my white + black saddle oxfords. I might want them sometime. Send them to 930 H. St.. I guess you might send all my mail there and it will be sure to reach me wherever I am sent on my next assignment.

Yesterday Pat Blaisdell, Helen Wilber + I were shopping around + who should I bump into as we got off the 5th Ave bus but Betsy Stockstrom. Pat + Helen were also in Class 91.

It was very cold yesterday. The wind just went right through us as we walked along.

Today a big box came for me from Peck & Peck. In it was a big box of cookies, a jar of currant jelly, two packages of Old Golds, a box of butter thin crackers, a bag of hard candies, a chocolate bar, a box of mint candies, and a Vmail (1) writing pad.

I haven’t heard from Davie if he got his watch. In case he didn’t, it is at Card & Osborne’s on Connecticut Ave. about three blocks above the Mayflower toward Dupont Circle.

I have certainly have used your iron a lot. It has come in so handy. Also the clothesline + pins in the case + the folding hangers Tantie give me have been constantly in use. I have tried to find some more folding hangers but there are none to be had.

One Sat. I took the 2:20 train to Stanford, then the Long Ridge bus to Wildwood Ave. where Uncle Hugh was waiting with the car. Uncle Hugh + I went to the Round Hill Church on Sunday stopping by the Huylers to see Mother Porter. Jack rode up to church with us but I didn’t see Margaret as she was sleeping. I saw Aunt Margaret for a minute after church.

I still have not seen Catherine + Everett. I guess he is still working odd hours.

How did you know to call me at Uncle Hugh’s on Sunday? I didn’t remember writing you that I would be there.

Have the pictures come yet + if so how are the finished products?

I shall give you a list of the girls who are here in the dormitory so you will know where I knew them when I refer to them. This is the way we are arranged as to beds around the room. 1 Libby Nichols, 2 Peggy Bell, 3 Maxine Bruce, 4 Connie Wetherell, 5 Helen Wilbur, 6 Me, 7 Ellen Thorson, 8 Opal Sneed, 9 Lucille Clark, 10 Lois Latham, 11 Mildred Baptiste, 12, Julia Wall, 13 Dorothy Faris, 14 Marie Tibbitts, 15 Sarah Ruth Cook, 16 Maxine Williams, 17 Margaret Hurley, 18 Janet Ramage, 19 Phyllis Boyes, 20 Patricia Blaisdell, 21 Paula O’Guin. That is all the gals at the Allerton. (2)

I must stop now and fix a few Xmas cards which I want to get off as soon as possible.

Well, gooby, gooby (sic) for now. I shall let you know when I find out what my assignment is to be. I feel almost certain that I cannot make any plans for Christmas so do not try to count me in. You and Davie make the plans and if possible I shall try to get there.

Lots + lots of love,

Chichi

(930 H. St. N. W.)

(Washington, D. C.)

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(1) Vmail is short for Victory Mail or Speed Mail. Messages were microfilmed for expedited mail service.

(2) Allerton Hotel for Women (now known as Renaissance New York Hotel 57) located on 130 East 57th Street in Manhattan.

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