Constantinople College
% British P.O.
June 1. 1914.Dear Miss Turner -
To-night, after dinner, a cablegram came to my hand and with trembling joy Mary & I opened it, and then we hallooed and buzzed around to share our joy. Our two trustees, Mr. Plimpton & Mr. Walker of N.Y. - fairly beamed & Dr. Patrick's eyes shone like stars. I think mine are shining like comets and I feel a deep delight away down in my left ventricle and in the curves of my diaphragm. [smiley face] Already Mary has pulled out a catalog & is rubbing her temple to decide how we shall expend our great wealth. We are tremendously grateful to you for your unselfish labor - a labor of love which will bring forth great fruit some day. I imagine the dear "Doctah" considerably increased the amount & as for all of my old students - I wish I could grip the hand of every one of them & make them know how rejoiced I am! This is a big boost for our biology and it is beautiful to have it from Mount Holyoke. Mary and I shall climb & climb, now, with renewed enthusiasm. Next year I am to be relieved from teaching psychology and so can devote more time to my true love. The psychology has been wholesome mental discipline &, as Miss Hazen used to say, I hope it has been "blessed to me."
Our elaborate Dedication Exercise will come June 3rd., and the generous gift from my former students will then receive public recognition in applause which ought to be heard in South Hadley!
When I see you this summer I shall try to make you realize how full of gratitude I am. I do hope you can visit us some time & see the Orientals traveling on the pathway illumined by scientific study. With hearty thanks to you all - I am
Lovingly yours -
Louise B. Wallace.