Mt. Holyoke College.
So. Hadley, Mass.
Oct. 26, 1897
Dear Charles,
Time is beginning to make tracks, only four more weeks to Thanksgiving and we shall be in Exeter again. I am talking of going to Springfield a week from today and stay over Wednesday with Persis McCurdy. She was up yesterday with Dr. McCurdy took dinner with me then we went around to the new buildings and over the golf ground, which are back of this buildings. [sic] In the evening I made three calls. The chapel is getting the smaller stained glass windows in. The inside is so filled with stageing [sic] that it is hard to judge of how far along it is. We hope to celebrate Founders day in about three weeks. Dr. Judson Smith is to offer the dedicatory prayer. He stopped here after the meeting in New Haven, as smiling as ever. This evening Mr. Clapp of Boston gives the first lecture of the course planned by the inter-class committee. He speak[s] on The Winter's Tale and we are all expecting a treat. The next is by Woodrow Wilson and the last is not yet decided. It is twelve o'clock. The mail closes and dinner is announced in half an hour. Our wise matron has been telling the girls that she was limited to $1.75 a week for their board and that she used eight eggs a day for the one hundred and twenty people. She is a peculiar one.
Thank you, guess I will help myself to your grapes or have source of my own. You ought to have one of your devoted sisters to keep house and cook for you. Don't you wish you could? I have made one sketch from my window. The leaves have left the trees so fast that it is hard work telling whether the sketch is or is not natural - I hear Dr. Lowell in the hall she is going to Springfield next Monday evening to hear [...]
I still say that you cannot build up a Psychological laboratory in a short time as it is something that has to grow. If you had several thousand dollars to work with of course you could make more show. I should be glad if you could get a years leave of absence for rest and study next year. You could visit the different laboratories and see what they were doing. But that isn't the question on hand. You must rest a good deal and keep on your usual work. You say that your work has increased in value every year. Why not take it for granted that it will this year. Don't let Dr. Buchner's bravado rob you of yours. He said this summer that he didn't know anything about child study, it didn't appeal to him at all, a lot of cheek was a good thing etc. Well I must stop for more reasons than one.
Good bye
Seraph.