Viewing page 97 of 195

This transcription has been completed. Contact us with corrections.

6
whether or not you will be able to decipher it is a question.

Madeleine is out with her baby. They will have their Christmas dinner and tree Sunday, when her husband can be here. I don't know what I shall do, but if I don't go to Maynard - which is doubtful - I think I shall ptake [[take]] myself in town, for, though I live upstairs, Mrs. Pettergill feels uncomfortable to be feasting and leaving others out, and I don't want to butt in.— I certainly have had my Christmases this year - and she has already given me a very nice present - you saw my hand-bag - didn't you? I think I may go in to the library or to a lecture or to see the Otts. It will be over sometime during the P.M. and I can return in the evening.

I went down to see the


7.
baby have her bath this morning. She is light-complexioned and weighs at 3 months about 10½ or 11 pounds. Her mother undressed her and laid her on a table in the bath room where she threw up her little arms and stretched and smiled. Then her mother put her into a big dish pan full of water and bathed her. She kicked and had a beautiful time, only crying a little when she was taken out. I wish you could see her.

I came out on the car from Sullivan Square last night with the mother of one of the boys I had in high school who is now a junior in Northeastern. His mother is a widow and works in town. Kenneth was a fairly good scholar, but did not work consistently. He is doing well now, though, I guess. I am glad.