Tougaloo, Miss.
Mar. 4. 1906.Dear family,
The six short days of vacation are over and gone, the New Orleans people have told us all about Mardi Gras, we have had a flying visit from the future (probable) president of Straight, and have settled down to the stretch of twelve weeks until Commencement.
I made two trips to Jackson to see a dentist, one by freight going and mule returning, the other by horse power each way. The other ladies of the party visited the legislature while I was at the dentists; they are having an extra long session as the code is being revised. The air was so blue with tobacco smoke that the visitors didn't enjoy it much. Another afternoon Miss Gordon and I went horseback riding, and another afternoon Miss Williams and I called on our "parishioners", thro' deep spring mud.
A week from Tuesday, as you see by the other enclosed program [no longer with the letter] we have another concert given by a man from New York, an unheard event at Tougaloo; some one has given the school a Steinway Grand piano, and this Dr. Hanchett is a great friend of Dr. Beard's, so the two things worked together in our interest.
We had some visitors last week from the A.M.A. school at Clinton, twelve miles from here. It belongs to Tougaloo, and will eventually be moved here, but I think we have about all the divisions and departments we can manage now.
Miss Macdougall has been reading in her Springfield Republican about the small pox at Putnam. Is there an extensive epidemic?
I hope those measurements for the boys next summer's sizes will arrive this week. There are less than ten weeks of school now. Miss Mac had her twenty-fifth birthday spread last week too,
With love.
Susie.