So. Hadley, Mass.Dear Carrie:
I am very sorry that I did not see more of you while you were here. I hoped that I could see you a long while to talk to. I could not find you in Chapel Thursday morning, and waited in my room all morning (as I had no lessons) hoping that you would get a chance to come to see me before you left. But I suppose you had all you could do for the morning.
I hope that your aunt and sister will excuse me for the abrupt way in which I left them in the hall Wednesday night. It did not occur to me for a while how rude it must have seemed. I went down a little while later to see them but they were gone.
I am very glad that I had the chance to meet your sister of whom you have told me so much and I wish I could have seen more of her.
I have been to each of my classes once. I am afraid that Greek is going to be rather hard for me. There are only five in the class and all except Loretta Collins and I have had at least two years of Greek in college. I have hardly had enough of zoo to know how I will like it. Perhaps you do not know that Miss Broeksmit has left and a Miss Morgan is taking her place. I have Miss Rowland in psychology just as I wanted. Miss Hewes in Civil Government is lovely too. Taking classes with Miss Wallace, Miss Smith, Miss Trueblood and Miss Williams I think I couldn't possibly have a better set of instructors. Don't you think so?
It is really surprizing [sic] how many of our 1908 girls have left. I hear of new ones every day. I hope that most of them will come back again even if not to our class.
We had the loveliest Y. W. C. A. meeting this afternoon! I think I enjoyed it more than any other except the first one in our Freshman year. Mabel Easton led and then a lot of Freshmen got up and told what their "goal" was. They made a very good beginning indeed.
This morning Miss Dickinson sang a solo, this afternoon Freda Rand did, and this evning [sic] the Sophomore and Senior choirs sang. Jessie Brown 1909 takes the part that Ruth Hanna had.
I am enjoying my room-mate more every day. Yesterday we fixed up the room as well as we could with so much in so little space. Even though we are crowded, I hope she won't go for a little while at least.
This afternoon Jessie Teall and I called on some Freshmen whom we found to be very pleasant.
I have not been feeling very well satisfied with things lately. I am afraid I have been a trifle homesick, but to-day it is so different. I think it must be the lovely services that we have had that make me feel so happy. I think I have been more homesick this year than I have since I came to college two years ago.
I know I shall miss you this year, especially in the lovely walks I took with you, but if staying out this year will make you stronger for your work it will be so much better for the next year and the year after.
I hope you will write to me often and tell me how you and your sister are enjoying yourselves. I shall do my best to write often and you will understand, if I wait rather long sometimes, that I am too busy.
I would like to say more to you now but I must stop as I have to write a birthday letter to my sister and it is near bedtime.
With love to you and your sister and your aunt I must close.
Lovingly
Mattie.September 30, 1906.