A Letter written on Jan 12, 1920

Constantinople College
American College for Girls
Constantinople

January 12, 1920.

¢ British Military Post.

My dear Miss Turner

It was delightful to receive your little xmas greeting sent on the wing while you were investigating Hospital Training School Courses. Is Mount Holyoke College planning to have a hospital? We are, you know, so I thought perhaps you were laying the foundations for the same thing. Perhaps our medical classes will begin next year and we shal[l] gradually get the hospital for the training of nurses.

It was mighty good to learn that peace and harmony reign in the Biology Department this year I trust also that Gypsy has put on a little more flesh than she could boast last summer. Recently Miss Jennie Wallace sent me a group taken at Woods Hole and it was excellent of Gipsy and Elizabeth. Often and often I live over again the lovely drives and remember the wonderful pleasure which Elizabeth Adams gave to me. She certainly made many heavens possible for the "Doctah" and me, and I would jump at the chance for another ride accompanied by a bag of Falmouth doughnuts and "hermits"! How long ago those days seem already! Ah well! I hope to repeat some of them next summer. On one of those beach rides you generously loaned me ten cents to buy pop-corn from the automatic doll at the Heights and it has rested on my conscience ever since. Fortunately I have some U.S. stamps to enclose [no longer with the letter], and now my sleep can be sweet. If we could eat some hot American pop-corn together this minute, that would be more fun. You have no doubt heard the sickening news that the deep-sea fishes of the Aegean Sea are completing their education by using the long-anticipated and much-prized microscopes. which you worked so ardently to procure. At first my heart was like lead but now I believe that your the generosity and that of other former students will be like a wonderful seed which will one day produce a whole tree of microscopes, even tho that seed be planted on the bed of the ocean. With that philosophy, recently acquired, I refuse to grieve over much.

Two or three days ago I received a good, long letter from Emily P. and it gave me quite a shock to learn that Miss Harper is no more. She was a good neighbor during my sojourn in the Purington home and I always enjoyed crossing swords with her. She seemed so full of life that it is hard to think of her as no more. My heart aches for her mother.

I wonder how the endowment fund is getting on. I wish Mr. Frick had remembered Mt. Holyoke in his will. He had enough to spare but perhaps another great giver will materialize. Will your new building be started next summer? That will be an exciting and strenuous time for you all.

We are rejoicing in our big faculty and large and attractive student-body and I get so busy and absorbed that I sometimes even forget to get anxious over the probable mandatory of Turkey!! Please give my love to your mother and yourself and accept my warmest wishes for 1920[.]

Love to Gipsy and Elizabeth.

Sincerely yours,
Louise B Wallace.