Teachers College
Columbia University
New YorkDepartment of Nursing and Health
October fifteenth,
Nineteen twenty-one.My dear Miss Turner:
Your letter gave me much pleasure and I have since received the copy of the Life of Mary Lyon which I assure you I shall read with greatest interest. I am sure that it will bring renewed inspiration for efforts in my own field.
I must repeat again that the day in South Hadley was a wonderful experience and will be a golden memory. Beginning with the delightful ride over with you in the morning and ending with that glorious sunset, it offered a series of unusual and delightful experiences.
I want to express if I can what the conferring of the degree of Doctor of Science meant to me. I can best perhaps do so by saying that to me the most sincere religionist is the scientist, searching through every branch of knowledge for the truth. I was deeply touched that I was to receive the degree of Master of Arts but I think you will understand that that of Doctor of Science moved me even more profoundly for it was to me much what a Bishopric would be to an ardent churchman.
I am sending to you as a little souvenir of the occasion that book I spoke of, "The Manhood of Humanity". I trust that you will find it interesting and suggestive.
Hoping that we may have the pleasure of meeting again in the not too distant future, believe me
Faithfully yours,
Annie W. Goodrich