Dr. Mary Sherwood,
Dr. Lilian Welsh,
The Arundel, N. Charles St.Baltimore, Md. March 7, 1920
Dear Miss Turner,
I thought you were wise not to turn out so early in the morning the day I left S. Hadley. I want to thank you for your many kindnesses to me while I was a "resident lecturer" at Mt. Holyoke and for your friendly sympathy in my failure to please everybody. I was really quite touched by the reaction of your girls to what seemed to them discourtesy to a visitor. I don't think the girl who wrote the letter signed "1921" meant any discourtesy. I had asked for frank suggestions and she thought the students were not getting what they had a right to expect. I found letters at the College here waiting for me from Mt. Holyoke and Dr. Underhill sent me a bunch which had been sent in her care. College girls are such nice things after all I have decided to go out of business as a lecturer on sex hygiene given as a separate course to college students - it is not fair to them.
I hope you can make satisfactory arrangements for next year. Miss Botsford told me she wants to teach and is not decided about going into public health and hygiene. Under those circumstances I should think her best plan would be to stay with you. Do you want Miss Whiting? We should hate to give her up, but if you want her I think she should be given her choice. Miss Winchester you may have with pleasure. I say this about Miss Whiting without consulting Miss King - who would never forgive you if you took me at my word. She really is so helpful and satisfactory.
I want to speak a good word for Miss Oyer [?] and Miss McDowell's desire to go to Augusta for as long a period as possible. It looks to me as if the weather would settle the question, but they are possessed with the wish to have some of the winter sports with their friends in Augusta. How young they seem?
I shall look forward to seeing you in Baltimore with pleasure. Dr. Sherwood was keenly interested in learning all about the people she met in Mt. Holyoke, and thought my report of your mother's condition was surprising - she really seemed unchanged to me.
I am hoping to hear of the great success of the Faculty performance. I hope the weather was more propitious than it was here that night.
With many thanks and kind regards,
Sincerely yours,
Lilian Welsh.