Word: wrote
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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MERTHY NOUGAT.P. S. One of the girls has just read this over, and she said that I had better tell you not to let it drop on anything because it is so heavy it might break something. I don't see what she means, for I wrote it on very light paper...
...know that my last letter to you has got me in an awful fix. I'll never, never write to a newspaper again. Oh, how the Miscellany did give it to me, and to you, too. Of course they don't know for sure that it was I who wrote the letter, but almost every one shows by their actions that they think I am the guilty one. I felt so bad after reading the article in this month's Miscellany that I just went to my room and had a real good cry. Really and truly, dear HERALD...
...awfully glad that I am going away soon, because almost all the girls are mad at me, because they think I wrote it. I would so much like to know what Harvard men think about the letter. I don't believe they think it so fearfully vicious, because honestly and truly I did not mean a single bad thing. I showed the letter to a lady friend, and she said she wouldn't mind at all what the Miscellany said, and then she told me a story about the Duchess of Shrewsbury, but she said something in French, and after...
...have written you so long a letter that I will not try to give you any news. I only wrote to you this time, anyway, to tell you how bad I feel for what I have done. I feel almost tempted to to go into a nunnery, and I suppose that is what I deserve for having dared to tell any tales out of school. Yours in Sorrow...
Speaking of the social delights of Harvard College students, a Cambridge correspondent of the Providence Journal is made to say : "Life was a round of pleasure, a constant succession of parties, sermons, receptions, five o'clock teas, and similar mild dissipations." It is reasonable to suppose that the correspondent wrote "germans" and not "sermons." - [Times, N. Y.] Without the correction the description is more near the truth...