Dear Girls,

First of all I want you to know that I have not held up Round Robin. Charlotte Jones brought it to me two days ago. I was not at home, so I don't know where it has been for more than a year. I shall send it on at once.

I have enjoyed reading both vol. IV & V. and I can scarcely realize that Rosalie, Mollie, Mabel, Nancy, Edith, and Claire have children in college this fall. The last three are sending daughters to Goucher 'Tempus fugit'. And I don't feel old either. I have heard little of 1903 members since our reunion in June 1925. We did have a good time. I wish you could all have been with us at Charlotte's but it will soon be time to being planning for 1928 and surely every body must be back for that event. I hear that Alice and Nancy occasionally see Daisy, Lyda, Mollie, and Louise more often. That is fine.

My news is not nearly so wonderful as many have to write about- of course Mother and I felt Annie's death on December 1, 1923 very keenly. She had had trouble with her heart for a long time and though she was home with us sick for several months before she died, we did not realize how ill she was until the end. We miss her terribly. I am still teaching English at one of our Baltimore high schools and mother and I still live at the Gilman Apts. So there is no excuse for any one of you coming to Baltimore and not looking me up. I should love to have seen Mary Reynolds when she was at J.H. Hospital with her daughter in 1922.

I have just returned from a wonderful trip to the Pacific coast. I was away nearly all summer, stopping in Middlebury College in the mountains of Vermont. It is a famous school of languages and I met many people who are famous in the world of literature. We all wrote both verse and prose but you need not expect to see any of mine in print. Still it was very thrilling to be there.

Three years ago a friend and I journeyed over Europe on our own hook and had the time of our lives. I can hardly tell you which country we enjoyed more- I'm going again as soon as possible. There is so much that is wonderful and beautiful in this world- I play golf a good deal and ride a bit, and so with a little dieting, try to keep down my avoir-du-pois.

I know some 1903 children and they are dear, I wish I could see the rest of them. Tell us about them, you mothers, and send pictures along.

Don't you think we should write on both sides of paper because of the weight of final volumes?

Here's hoping I shall see some of you soon-
Affectionately yours,

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