Rev. Dr. William M. Nesbit
230 Portsea Street
New Haven, Conn.
Naugatuck, Conn.Jan. 21, 1941.
Dear little Girl: Papa is dictating this letter. "Your immediate ancestors are tickled pink at the news contained in your epistle just received. We feel certain that taking Miss Hussey's course is the correct solution of your problem. We had not mentioned this course in our communication of yesterday, because the Catalogue with which we were working described it as coming in the First Semester. The study of Hebrew Poetry will add to the breadth of your literary knowledge - and of course will increase your knowledge of the O.T. Miss Hussey is a very fine Semitic scholar - and knows her subject somewhat as Miss Laird knows hers. Also she likes you and she knows your family, which does not harm. In view of this decision, you can consider the voluminous manuscript of advice which your parents jointly toiled upon - last evening and into the wee sma' hours - of the morning as superceded (Mama says "Old Stuff"). You should however appreciate the production because of the arduous labor and concentrated acumen which produced it."
W.M.N. Am so glad that you are going to have a course with Miss Hussey - To-morrow, I am sending you some eats - which I hope will arrive on Thursday. Papa has to go to Epworth League - so he will post this.
Love.
Mamma.