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be fulfilled, I am afraid. Though I certainly aimed that they should when I made them. 

I haven't any very bright prospects this evening, even when I think of Earlham, I think of how awkward I will feel, how the girls will be above me, how that I will not have a lot of fine clothes like some of the girls, how I will want to take music and can't! Oh unworthy creature! I ought to be thankful I get to go! But I cant [[can't]] help but think of these things sometimes.

But I intend to work hard - and be a great painter. Although I know that American painters are almost always poor. 

I wish the wind wasn't from the north, I am afraid it won't rain. Louise Gougill says she has a new little brother. Aunt Mollie has a baby girl.

I haven't read hardly any