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January 5, 1920
Dear Mrs. Meyer:
I fully intended to write you a real letter yesterday but the day was a full one. Marjorie Reynolds from Sturgeon Bay was in the city and I called at Miss Mudgett's in the morning and took them to Church and brought them home to dinner with me. They stayed until five o’clock, then I took a nap for an hour and somehow the evening seemed to be filled with odds and ends.
I finally had to go down to the station to meet a girl whose train was delayed and was not expected until 1:40. I did not like to ask a girl to do it and so I went myself, but fortunately she was able to catch another train out of Milwaukee which brought her in here at 11 o’clock, so it was not such a long wait.
The new family is arriving today, thirteen of them have come already and eight more are due today and tomorrow. There are six others from whom I am awaiting a definite word so I think the new group will number about twenty-five. The twenty-one counted above are just those who have already come and those whom I am expecting today and tomorrow morning. it is crowding us to the full but we are very glad. The house has not been as full for years. Harris Hall has a waiting list and we are doubling up in every way here. We had agreed to entertain, over Thursday night, the young people’s secretaries of the Northwestern Branch W. F. M. S., about fifteen of them and I hardly know how we are going to manage it.
I think I will give up my two rooms which will care for three and Mrs. Avann can take care of a couple and Dr, Lesemann take care of a couple and then with our other two or three rooms which we are reserving for transients, we can probably manage. The Northwestern Branch officers are to be here for dinner Thursday night, a group of about forty, I think, I think it is very worth while having them even though it involves considerable extra work for us here.
Mr, Meyer told me yesterday about your letter from Portland and inasmuch as he did not expect to come to the School yesterday, he mailed it to me and I am looking for it on the afternoon mail. I am so sorry that you have been having this hard, hard trip to Portland and more especially inasmuch as it seemed to be fruitless. I do not like to think of your working under such a strain and do hope it will not be too much for you.
Object Description
| Title | Letter from Belle L. James to Lucy Rider Meyer, January 5, 1920 |
| Date | 1/5/1920 |
| Creator | James, Belle L. |
| Collection | Lucy Rider Meyer Papers (Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary) |
| Description | This is a typed letter from Belle L. James to Lucy Rider Meyer. This is general correspondence about daily matters. |
| Subject |
Correspondence Secretaries Meyer, Lucy Rider, 1849-1922 |
| Collection Source | Chicago Training School Collection, Series 1.2 Box 2 Folder 10 |
| Series Title | Lucy Rider Meyer Professional Papers |
| Folder Title | Correspondence - Belle L. James 1911-1921 |
| Type | Text |
| Physical Format | Letters (correspondence) |
| Digital Format | application/pdf |
| Language | eng |
| Rights | For permission to reproduce, distribute, or otherwise use this image, please contact The Styberg Library by phone (847)866-3909 or email styberg.library@garrett.edu |
| Method of scan | HP Scanjet N6310 |
| Identifier | 02_10_38_CTS_LRM.pdf |
Description
| Title | Page 1 |
| Collection | Lucy Rider Meyer Papers (Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary) |
| Transcript | January 5, 1920 Dear Mrs. Meyer: I fully intended to write you a real letter yesterday but the day was a full one. Marjorie Reynolds from Sturgeon Bay was in the city and I called at Miss Mudgett's in the morning and took them to Church and brought them home to dinner with me. They stayed until five o’clock, then I took a nap for an hour and somehow the evening seemed to be filled with odds and ends. I finally had to go down to the station to meet a girl whose train was delayed and was not expected until 1:40. I did not like to ask a girl to do it and so I went myself, but fortunately she was able to catch another train out of Milwaukee which brought her in here at 11 o’clock, so it was not such a long wait. The new family is arriving today, thirteen of them have come already and eight more are due today and tomorrow. There are six others from whom I am awaiting a definite word so I think the new group will number about twenty-five. The twenty-one counted above are just those who have already come and those whom I am expecting today and tomorrow morning. it is crowding us to the full but we are very glad. The house has not been as full for years. Harris Hall has a waiting list and we are doubling up in every way here. We had agreed to entertain, over Thursday night, the young people’s secretaries of the Northwestern Branch W. F. M. S., about fifteen of them and I hardly know how we are going to manage it. I think I will give up my two rooms which will care for three and Mrs. Avann can take care of a couple and Dr, Lesemann take care of a couple and then with our other two or three rooms which we are reserving for transients, we can probably manage. The Northwestern Branch officers are to be here for dinner Thursday night, a group of about forty, I think, I think it is very worth while having them even though it involves considerable extra work for us here. Mr, Meyer told me yesterday about your letter from Portland and inasmuch as he did not expect to come to the School yesterday, he mailed it to me and I am looking for it on the afternoon mail. I am so sorry that you have been having this hard, hard trip to Portland and more especially inasmuch as it seemed to be fruitless. I do not like to think of your working under such a strain and do hope it will not be too much for you. |
