[Some paragraph marks added for ease of reading.]Templeton, Mass.
June 17, 1906.Dear Sister:-
I will write just a line to let you know that I am still in existence and expect to continue to hold out some way for another week. I have directed all my invitations this P.M. besides studying and trying to copy the music to my Ivy Song but the trouble is I don't feel like doing anything.
Auntie went to Gardner this A.M. to see Miss Coolidge and what do you think she (Auntie) brought me? A string of pearls. They are just lovely. Mine are eighteen inches long. Mama says to tell you that they are wearing beads longer than she thought so yours would be all right, (unless you have strung them over.)
My second pictures were very good but I finally decided upon one of each lot. I can have them Sat. A lot in the class aren't going to get them until after graduation.
Lucius has been down to-night. I was going to lie down about six but he got here about 5:30 so I skud [?] for the lounge so it would be said that I was being down & Auntie faced him. He wanted me to go to the Vespers at the other church with him. Fancy that!
Auntie says that she is going to send your girdle the first of the week. It opens on the left side. There is a feather bone in front. If it is too large you can set the hooks back. You can think of me Thurs. night as eating and eating and eating. We are coming up at half past six & are going to dance until eight & then eat. The Alumni Reception is June 27 & I rather want to go to that if there is anything left of me by that time.
The essay is still flourishing. Mr. B- told me Fri. that I improved every time I said it. We have to practise our Ode & Ivy Song every night after school & to-morrow in school time if it is pleasant we are going to practise the Ivy Exercises out of doors.
Edith Challoner is in town for a few days. She inquired very particularly after you. Annie was home Fri. night. You ought to have seen me, when Mama told me that the Cambridges had invited us up there. I am so tickled I don't know what to do. Thato [sic] graduation absorbs all my thoughts. How about birthdays. I don't know enough to get anything if I knew what to get. Auntie approves of getting Mama a coffeepot. Mama thinks it would be nice for us all to go in to-gether & get Auntie something but what I don't know know [sic] & she doesn't. We shall have to leave things until the excitement is over shall we not?
Auntie has got Mama a dress of thin black goods with a white figure. I found a pair of gloves in Gardner & snapped them up because we didn't think we could get them in other places. So now I shall have five pairs of gloves for they have come from Worcester & are coming from Hartford. Isn't that a joke on us? I guess we can dispose of them.
Well good luck to you in your graduation and reception. With lots of love x x x x x
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