Mt. Holyoke College,
So. Hadley Mass.
May 29. 1894.
Dear Folks,
I will say that now just after supper I have just come to the knowledge that I have "cut" one exercise today and forgot it entirely it was on Mineralogy work on the section cutter.
I came home with the belief that I had finished all required work for the day and so calmly cleaned my room, did my domestic work there ate supper then thought of what I had done. Well, I'll settle it somehow.
Commencement is three weeks from tomorrow and studies and examinations will end the Monday before and Saturday before (so they say) is to be given to us for packing. I wish we could finish up lessons, then have our day for packing after that.
Tomorrow I expect to devote to finishing up my story and copying it. It isn't due until saturday night but I must get it done and off my mind tomorrow. I can't make it worth the paper it takes then but it must be done.
Miss Helen A Pratt is here she writes for the Congregationalist under the name of Helen A. Somebody else and Leslies Magazine. She is here visiting to write this college up along with Vassar and one other I don't know what one[.] This piece is to appear in Leslie illustrated by views which the girls have taken with their cameras.
Miss Hooker by request is also writing this college up for the Century.
Mrs Mead said at supper tonight that we mustn't go off in companies of only two along the lonesome country roads but must have at least five or six. it wasn't safe in these times and especially tomorrow. There were too many people around whom it wouldn't be safe to meet.
We had strawberries for supper tonight and have had them several times lately.
Last night Seffie and I went out in a boat and studied a little while and coming from the boat house picked some dandelions and had some dandelion greens and vinegar and sugar. It was good I assure you. I had some to go to bed on.
Our Glee and Banjo club have gone to Worcesester [sic] to give a concert tonight I believe Miss Cowles was to go as Chaperon.
I hear that they are to give Mrs Green and her daughter two of the very best rooms in the building next year. It seems very strange that the matron or less even than that should be so privleged [sic] as to have the best room in the building besides sitting always at Mrs Meads left hand at table. It is a pretty high place for her. [Perhaps Clara E Greene, superintendent of the domestic department 1893-1894]
The girls are having a time dancing tonight as usual when they havn't [sic] any thing else to do, although there is'nt [sic] as much as there was of it when the gymnastics were here. Charles don't seem to know whether he will come up and see us or not this year.
Miss Greene wanted I should come to her office today to ask me if I had had an examination in Sem. Rhetoric or had taken it I believe I informed her that I had[.] They hadn't credited me with what I had done last year when I was here. But thats no worse than not crediting some of the Juniors with more than one term Bible which has happened.
Later in the evening.
I went up to the office and got your letter which came in the evening mail. I think you are having quite a high time. You may have to appear in probate court yet.
One of the girls by name Miss Lord has been out to an entertainment tonight and she brought us two pieces of all kinds of cake that they had it was beyond expression when one tells how good it tasted and was. She is a young lady who has taken quite an interest in town affairs and studies Astronomy and Physics with Seffie and altogether we see a good deal of her.
Well it is morning and I must send this off and Seffie has gone off to study astronomy. I have just soaked out my pen and got it to going beautifully.
Well must close now
M. A. Bliss.We dont celebrate any except sing America on the front porch.