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Bryn MawrNovember 18th
Dear Margaret:
Apparently I had to come to Bryn Mawr to have a moment in which I could write to you! I have been wanting ever since mamma told me of your operation, to lend you my heartiest sympathy - and congratulations! After having appendix trouble last year, my self, I have always looked forward to a free time when I could have my own appendix out - But I suppose I shall be like every one else - and not do it until a particular pain forces me.
They tell me there is always bad pain for a few days after the operation; and I hope you are well over that, and getting to the point now where you can rather enjoy being nursed. I am sorry you had to have it; but unlike some things, it is an operation we all expect to have some time, and it is a good thing to have out of the way. My sympathy is none the less very real. Pain is pain, that's all, a child of the devil, and one doesn't like to have the people one cares for subject to it. I'm glad you are to be in the college in January for part of your convalescence. That won't be so bad as a hospital.
My best love to you and hopes for the speediest of speedy recoveries. I think I could lend you my love better if Lucy Donnelly's pens weren't, to my mind, so awful. My writing is not my own - but my feelings are.
Sometime you must come to Princeton. Don't forget it.
Your affectionate
Katharine G.