Templeton. Mass.,
Nov. 4, 1903.Dear Lucy:-
I don't think that you will get much of a letter to-night for I am so sleepy that I don't know where I am at, there is company in the sitting-room, (Miss Wilkinson and Mrs. Briggs and Mrs. Maynard I guess) and it is eight o'clock, and the Fair is to-morrow night. I will send you something that I said I would long, long ago. I think it never would have been finished if we hadn't had. [sic] Friday off. You had better send yours home and have it washed. I went to E. Templeton Friday. Grandma is about as she was when you were here. Cousin Mary Marean was there. I got G+ on my English exam. and 99 on my Latin. (I got 97 in my Greek exam.) I beat Johnson on Latin. He got 96 Amber seems all right now only there is still a little quirk in his tail. I should think that you had quite a time Halloween. I didn't do anything except play in the leaves with Ruth & go over to the library with her. I have been in to see the company and Miss Wilkinson says that she calls Kit Amberetta sometimes. Isn't that the greatest?
I fear you will never get any more to this letter for I put it down last night & forgot it to-night and now it is seven o'clock and I must get ready for the fair but perhaps I can write a little in the morning[.]
X X X X X X X X With love
X X Mary.P.S. I will add a little to my letter now. It is Friday night and the Fair is a thing of the past. It was fine. We didn't go to supper but went up early enough to have some fun before the entertainment[.] The play was real good. The main part of it was this. Miss Butterfield (Mrs. Minnie Seaver) kept boarders. She belonged to the Woman's Aid. Club. Flossie French was her daughter. Mrs. DeBoise was a boarder. She invited the (another society) to spend an afternoon at her house & didn't say anything to Mrs. Butterfield about it. Annie was her daughter. Mrs. B- found it out and was awfully mad because the two societies were not on speaking terms. The afternoon that they were to have come it rained and the Woman's Aid was put off and Annie & Flossie thought that they would help matters so they asked the other society not to come until the next day so they both came at once. The[y] kept them separate until tea-time then they had to come to-gether[.] Then they had a big fight with words until the postmistress came with two letters one for each society from a missionary that they were both working for and finally Annie made peace between them and they decided to become one society. They ended by singing "Auld Lang Syne". It was very good
Auntie says to tell you that she has had to dig dalhias [sic] in a snowstorm. It has been snowing quite hard.