Bessie B. Nesbit
Mount Holyoke College
South Hadley, Mass.Happy Palm Sunday
Sun March 17, 1940
Dear Mama & Papa,
Greetings! Thanks for your swell letters. I am just waiting for this coming week end. Just think - soon I'll be home. There is only one fly in the ointment & that is a French blue book which is due for Thurs. I shall leave at ten on Fri. morning. I still can't believe the Religion mark.
Friday night Sally and I went to Drums along the Mohawk. It was simply terrible. I never have seen such a blood and thunder picture with actors like Claudette Colbert & Henry Fonda. It was just plain awful.
This morning Stelle, Marion, Lissa, Sally & I went to the village church and heard Mr. Manley. He was very mediocre. I spoke to him afterward and he invited me to come over to the parsonage some time. He wanted to know why I had been "hiding my light under a bushel so long." I enclose the bulletin.
[Enclosed was the bulletin for the March 17, 1940 service at First Congregational Church in South Hadley.]
The chief trouble with the sermon was that Mr. Manley looked all the time as if he were laughing inwardly over a good joke which he didn't think it was wise to impart to the congregation.
We have been having a lot of fun teasing Lissa about the history teacher with the Eng. accent. I think that everybody here at college, every girl that is, regards him as pretty good game. Could you possible [sic] spare me a couple of dollars this week because I have some debts I would like to square before Spring Vacation[.]
I must close now & study Chem.
Love,
BessieP.S.
Thanks for the stamps.
B. N.