Darling,
Today, I have been so happy all day. I got three lovely
letters from you written Saturday, Sunday, and Monday and thank you so much,
dear! After all the nice things you said about my letters I am ashamed and
embarrassed about that letter that I wrote night before last. Pardon me, dear
for being so blue in a letter to you but I did feel so down. I wish when you
feel blue that you would unload to me. I wouldn’t mind at all and it does help.
You have no idea what a definite plan for the near future
can do for one’s disposition. Today I haven’t felt a particle of blueness. I’ve
felt like singing and dancing all day. In fact June and I had a giggling spell
in the front room this evening. I haven’t felt better in weeks. I was so glad
to hear all that news about the campus. I am certainly glad that Sigma Pi Tau
made D.U. They certainly deserve it. I hope they get a good pledge class. When
you go to their “house warming” you will have to notice and tell me. I am
certainly glad that the Alpha Phis are doing so well. And darling, I don’t
think you have anything to worry about! Good heavens, with nine swell kids
sewed up by Monday of rush week by the time you get this letter you will have a
wonderful class just the size you want of the best on the campus. I am sure
with you at the helm this is going to be a boom year for the Chi Psis. You can
do it, dear, I know you can. I have all the faith in the world in you.
I have faith in myself, too, now. I feel so good!! I am going
out there and make that house attractive and make my family look forward to
their meals and I am going to to mess around in a flower garden. But my biggest
job is getting Mom out of the blues. One of her biggest disappointments is
having to take Eleanor out of Mrs. Williams school. Mrs. William’s school is so
small that she hasn’t been able to guarantee a permanent house for Eleanor. But
if her plans work out she will be able to. Then Pop has a life insurance policy
made out to Eleanor, which will take care of her if Mrs. Williams can do the
rest. Then Mom’s care in that direction will be at rest. She has always worried
about Eleanor being taken care of and she has also always worried about Eleanor
being a burden on us (us being June & I), too.
If Eleanor is down there we can always see her as often as
we want because Mrs. Williams welcomes visitors and she can come home at
Christmas and summers. But as long as she is in that school we know that she is
getting every possible advantage and chance to improve. Eleanor hadn’t seen Pop
for four years and she didn’t even know he was coming and yet she knew him the
instant she saw him! That’s more than lots of normal children do at her size.
Sleepy is so thrilled at the prospect of seeing Eleanor that
she gets tears in her eyes when we talk about her. I’m a little worried about
whether Eleanor will recognize her. She used to talk about June, Mom, and Pop
to me all the time but never about Da (what she called Sleepy) but she must
remember her because she saw much more of Sleepy than she did of Pop. It would
break Sleepy’s heart if Eleanor didn’t remember her because she worships
Eleanor. We’ll just have to wait and see. Please excuse the blots. The desk was
inky.
Did you say that you were starting law school with Bill
Neighbor? Did he decide to come back to school after all? Has he expressed any
opinion in your presence about Ginny’s hair? Did Bill Weeks and Hauela start
right in where they left off? Hauela broke off with the boy down here that she
was mad about before she came up to school and she said that Bill had one
likewise in Portland.
I have gotten so interested in everything that I have
written to find out about subscribing to the Emerald for this year. Then being
an alum entitles me to Old Oregon for a year. But that doesn’t tell me
everything. By the way how is the student body president? Very busy these days?
Lover, I hope I don’t keep you too busy answering all my
questions and I don’t want you to bother about them if it prevents your telling
about yourself and your interests because those are the things above all else
that interests me most because you see dear, I love you.
Goodnight, dear
Ann
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