63 Highland St.,
Worcester Mass.,
March 25, 1906.Dear Lucy,-
I have been saying for a long time that I was going to write to you. I did not know where you were but thought I could reach you through your home.
How do you enjoy your work? I shall enjoy hearing all about it. I suppose you are half glad and half sorry to have college days over. Is Mary planning to go to college still.
Perhaps you will be surprised to find out where I am. I have been here since October 16th studying at Becker's Business College. I have been taking up Bookkeeping but that course is finished now and I am hard at work on short-hand and type-writing. It takes lots of time as I am in a class of one and am working along as rapidly as possible. You know I never did like rules so I want to get to dictation in short hand as soon as I can. I am thinking of getting out a new dictionary. In the typewriting we have a book of printed lessons and each lesson must be all "OK" before we can go on and oh! such mistakes as I have made. They are laughable and help to teach the lesson of patience if I can only remember it after I get it learned. It does seem good to be back in school but I shall be glad to get to work.
I am boarding here in the city with my brother's family so I go home only once in a while or when I take a notion. I enjoy this city and guess I should find Gardner quite or rather quiet. I shall have to learn to spell when I get through with shorthand. It twists everything all up.
I am supposed to be trying to learn penmanship but it is hard to see the results of that yet.
I went down
onto the stores last evening with my sister and such a crowd as you can find. People of all sorts and each one trying to get ahead of someone else. That is natural isn't it. Do you ever hear fromfyour friends at college. Write when you can.Your cousin,
Elsie A. Lamb.