1317 N. Charles St
Balto, Md
May 31, 1922.
Lady dear,
Helen Vincent is just back from college, & reports that you are looking better than she has seen you in years. No news could be sweeter to my ears. How wonderful that you are going abroad this summer. I enclose a letter from Miss Ball. [no longer with this letter] Sounds cheerful underneath the last paragraph.
I am returning Mary Corsa's letter in regard to Mary Daboll. [also no longer with this letter] Mary came & spent an hour or more in my office. It is the same story of last year except the boys are left out. I think she feels that marriage & a home is what she should have had. She is not depressed. I wish she had tried the dentist job, but she preferred summer camp which gives more freedom. Vague plans for music lessons in Boston next winter, & a few pupils. Tried teaching a few in Pa. "Not my forte, but bores me less than anything I can think of." I am afraid the poor girl is tinctured with her father's instability, laugh [sic] at him [?] as she does. He's now studying to be a Swedenborgen preacher at 60 pt. [?] Mary has diffuse interests but no goal or real ambition. As soon as work & patience are required she falls down. The worst of it is, that her failures do not sting her into achievement. Her attitude seems to be, "I'd be glad to change, if you'd do it for me." The thing gets no rise out of her. And to me that makes the outlook bad. Caring is a quality that one cannot put into a human being.
I think of you often these days, with genuine admiration for your sweet spirit & poise in the rocky pathway of life. God makes one person in a thousand like you.
My brother was married last Sat. A teacher in N.Y. H. School[.]
There is much to tell you, which cannot be written. I shall see you in September.
My great love to you.