A Letter Written around Feb 13, 1955

Dear Pat,

I didn't realize that I hadn't written for so long. I've been so busy, what with reading all I have to read and so forth, that I've had no chance to write to anyone but mother, and even she's gotten only one letter this week. I was so pleased to hear [from] you this evening. It's been a long time since we've gotten together, and it'll be good to see you when you come to N.Y, if you have time to defy the law of gravity and drop up to see me. I'm going to get your tickets on Monday, so rest easy about that.

How goes the Workshop's play? I tried out for "Pride and Prijudice" [sic] for our Workshop. As a matter of conceited fact, I had hope of a part, maybe. Notices were to be posted Friday at noon. Friday noon came, and no notices. The grapevine said that they'd be up by 4:00 PM. Over I trotted to Millbank. There was a notice, all right, a lovely little notice which thanked everyone who tried out for the play and regretted to inform us that the play was not going to be. Instead, there'll be 3 student-directed one-acts. You will pardon the expression CRAP!

If we don't hear from that juice-headed witch soon, I'm going to clobber her. Mase must have made up his mind by now. I kind of think he wants to stay, and yet, the most best solution, speaking absolutely impersonally, would be, I think, for him to go. Not that I want them to. (Excusa de penmanship, please) Oh, well.

Heard Burl Ives the other night at McMillin. He was very good and sang some very unusual songs. Most of them I'd never heard before, and they were lovely, some very fine and some very funny.

Warden went out tonight with a real brick s-house (BSH for short) we're hoping she has fun.

Victorian Poetry is deelightful! How I wish you could audit it just once! Prof. Robertson is wonderful. He even inspired me to open my generally tight-shut little mouth and say something half-way intelligent. Which is a greater achievement than you might think, because, talk though I generally do, I prefer to be one of the listeners in class - Also I feel so stupid at times that I don't dare say anything! But I have fun.

I'll write more later.

Lurve,
JFT [Jane Foster Thornton]