A Letter written on Oct 15, 1899

Mansfield Mass.
Oct. 15, 1899

Dear family,

There is not very much to write today, but I will begin a letter so that you will get one all right Fri.

My rhetoricals last Friday were the best we have had yet. But that is not saying much in their favor. Mr. Stone says they are a vast improvement on last year. Nov. 17. I am going to have a Dunbar Day, and Nov. 3 and Tennyson Day.

Last night I wrote to Aunt Ellen asking her I might go to see her from Oct 26-29.

Yesterday afternoon Miss Kinne and I took quite a long bicycle ride, that is, long for me, about three miles. I enjoyed it very much, but you ought to see the bruises I have.

This afternoon the other people in the house made candy. I went to bed instead.

This evening we are going to the Epworth League meeting at the Methodist Church, and then to the Cong'l meeting.

Mon. night

Your voluminous letter came this morning. From the fact that it was mailed at Union Putnam I judge that you went to the Convention, and I expect your next will tell all about it.

How many nuts have you picked up? I have not heard you say anything about them. Tonight I kept some children after school to recite their Book-keeping lessons, then I came home, changed my dress, got on my wheel and rode down to Miss Copeland's; she is going to South Hadley to make a little visit, and I have sent some candy by her to Laura.

I forgot to write that I went down there one evening last week on the electric car and spent the evening, looking at pictures most of the time. Miss Copeland is an amateur photographer, and has lots of pictures of So. Hadley scenes. She had a plate of very fine fudges too, which I enjoyed heartily.

Mrs. Copeland is a very nice motherly sort of a woman. They have a very nice house on a large cranberry farm.

Wed. night.

If this hasn't been a hot day for the middle of November October! The thermometer has been at 80° in the schoolroom and we have been stupid accordingly. It must be very hot around the mud-hole in summer.

A very cordial letter from Aunt Eleanor came last night, written Tues. morning. Uncle Robert had not returned then. He must be making quite a visit somewhere. I shall go there the 26th and stay till Sunday night.

I wish you would make for me a collection of all the pieces you come across that would be suitable for my children to speak. They seem to think I have an inexhaustible supply on hand, but I did not bring my books of poems with me except Dunbar; not even Browning, and there is very little material in the library here. Only one book can be drawn at a time. Miss K. and I are trying to read together Holmes "Guardian Angel", but I hardly think we shall finish it. Bad day for the wedding wasn't it?

Lovingly
Susie.