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Merry Christmas
Wayland Sunday, Dec. 21, 1958
Dear Eva:
Your letter came yesterday and Thanks for the check. Here is the Christmas solution. The Dinosair was $30, so your share is $15.00, and now that is your Christmas present, unless you would prefer that we exchange $15 checks - better in sentiment than practice (also more economical - a vulgar word to use in regard to presents). But do something special or get something special for you or the house, for $15.00.
You guessed wrong - Clara came yesterday, and Edie came to get us. It would have suited me better to have another day at home, but Edie could come on Saturday because Roger was at home, so she came bringing Ming and Vanya. As it is, I left too much undone and forgot too many things - I never had a worse scramble. I typed until 11:00 Friday night and then worked on the corrections of the Grammatid paper Saturday morning. Fredda came and took me and my Corona to Clapp and to buy gloves to give to Nora Smith, my former cleaning woman who acts as night attendant to Bertha Putnam. I hadn't time to wrap them up for her. I forgot to give Helen Fuller the big candle stick I got for her at the Candle Shop last summer, I forgot to pack all the unwritten cards - about 30 odd with the address typed, so they will not be sent or sent late. I remembered the 2 loaves of Norwegian Christmas bread - yeast bread - which I made Friday and the nuts and anacodas, and all the presents, I hope. I am not giving much except to myself this year - my trip, no clothes. I hope I'll do better another year.
Thursday I went to Amherst by bus; either the bus was unusually bad or the motorman was poor, but it was an awful ride. Lenette brought me back, I am glad to say. We had to go over the Discussions, and it took some time as I thought she wanted to make it too elementary, and she thought that I wasn't making it forcible enough. We compromised partly but I would not give in completely because I thought she didn't know the literature and was overestimating its value. However, I had to retype it - I expected that - but also to do more re-writing than I had counted on.
Geoffroy is coming on well and is now out in society; he had been to the Faculty Club and gave a talk. The new car is in Amherst, a big station wagon, but came without power steering and Lenette doesn't want to do so long a drive without it. The Ford Co. located a car with power steering in New York state - one of the strikes is in the power steering plant - but they - G & L - objected to a red & white car, so the car is being brought to Amherst to have the power steering transferred to their car - a light blue. They were expecting to get it in a day or two. Lenette wants to get more or less used to it before starting.
I had to go to Holyoke Friday to do banking - get express checks among other things. I looked for plastic bowls in which to eat our evening soup, for Clara + me on the trip and had a hard time finding any that I liked. I got two, but they look too much like Vanya's dish to please me. Edie has some nice ones for the children but said she couldn't get any more. Those in Holyoke belonged to dinner sets and were too good (and too small) or too much like a dog dish.
I had to spend one afternoon going to see Dr. Halton for my ear. He thinks it will be all right. I hope so or I can't use my hearing aid in it. That day I got packages of nuts - 4 kinds in separate boxes, and some pears. As I got oof the bus in S.H. the bag broke and all the packages - 5 - spilled on the ground. I gathered them up in the torn bag but by the time I had gone half way down our lane, the bag tore some more and the pears rolled out. When I bought avocados at our A. & P. I appreciated the way Mr. Bell did them up and even got a little cardboard basket for me to carry them to Clapp.
Edie went to Holyoke to meet Clara at the 1:03 but found that the train was over an hour late, so she called up and said she would come up and load and then go back to Holyoke. (I brought up blankets, sheets + towels) as I had suggested at Thanksgiving. Fredda was there and she said she would go to Holyoke to see Clara and could bring up the big bag which was for the Trip. We got back just as Clara's train came in. Then Edie noticed that Vanya had been left at Dickinson, so we all had to come up.
Edie, Clara, Elizabeth and I went to church this morning - cold - it was 7° at 9 o'clock. Very good music. Purcell's "Trumpet Prelude" with a good trumpeter and other nice things including 2 Bach numbers. We are to go to the outdoor pageant at 5:00 this evening dressed in our warmest clothes. Clara and I might pass it up, if it weren't that Elizabeth is in it as Mary, selected because she could be depended on not to giggle. As I looked at the Children's choir this morning I saw the point - most of the girls wouldn't be eligible.
You haven't said what you are doing for Christmas. I hope it is something pleasant. Much love, Alma.
Wayland Sunday, Dec. 21, 1958
Dear Eva:
Your letter came yesterday and Thanks for the check. Here is the Christmas solution. The Dinosair was $30, so your share is $15.00, and now that is your Christmas present, unless you would prefer that we exchange $15 checks - better in sentiment than practice (also more economical - a vulgar word to use in regard to presents). But do something special or get something special for you or the house, for $15.00.
You guessed wrong - Clara came yesterday, and Edie came to get us. It would have suited me better to have another day at home, but Edie could come on Saturday because Roger was at home, so she came bringing Ming and Vanya. As it is, I left too much undone and forgot too many things - I never had a worse scramble. I typed until 11:00 Friday night and then worked on the corrections of the Grammatid paper Saturday morning. Fredda came and took me and my Corona to Clapp and to buy gloves to give to Nora Smith, my former cleaning woman who acts as night attendant to Bertha Putnam. I hadn't time to wrap them up for her. I forgot to give Helen Fuller the big candle stick I got for her at the Candle Shop last summer, I forgot to pack all the unwritten cards - about 30 odd with the address typed, so they will not be sent or sent late. I remembered the 2 loaves of Norwegian Christmas bread - yeast bread - which I made Friday and the nuts and anacodas, and all the presents, I hope. I am not giving much except to myself this year - my trip, no clothes. I hope I'll do better another year.
Thursday I went to Amherst by bus; either the bus was unusually bad or the motorman was poor, but it was an awful ride. Lenette brought me back, I am glad to say. We had to go over the Discussions, and it took some time as I thought she wanted to make it too elementary, and she thought that I wasn't making it forcible enough. We compromised partly but I would not give in completely because I thought she didn't know the literature and was overestimating its value. However, I had to retype it - I expected that - but also to do more re-writing than I had counted on.
Geoffroy is coming on well and is now out in society; he had been to the Faculty Club and gave a talk. The new car is in Amherst, a big station wagon, but came without power steering and Lenette doesn't want to do so long a drive without it. The Ford Co. located a car with power steering in New York state - one of the strikes is in the power steering plant - but they - G & L - objected to a red & white car, so the car is being brought to Amherst to have the power steering transferred to their car - a light blue. They were expecting to get it in a day or two. Lenette wants to get more or less used to it before starting.
I had to go to Holyoke Friday to do banking - get express checks among other things. I looked for plastic bowls in which to eat our evening soup, for Clara + me on the trip and had a hard time finding any that I liked. I got two, but they look too much like Vanya's dish to please me. Edie has some nice ones for the children but said she couldn't get any more. Those in Holyoke belonged to dinner sets and were too good (and too small) or too much like a dog dish.
I had to spend one afternoon going to see Dr. Halton for my ear. He thinks it will be all right. I hope so or I can't use my hearing aid in it. That day I got packages of nuts - 4 kinds in separate boxes, and some pears. As I got oof the bus in S.H. the bag broke and all the packages - 5 - spilled on the ground. I gathered them up in the torn bag but by the time I had gone half way down our lane, the bag tore some more and the pears rolled out. When I bought avocados at our A. & P. I appreciated the way Mr. Bell did them up and even got a little cardboard basket for me to carry them to Clapp.
Edie went to Holyoke to meet Clara at the 1:03 but found that the train was over an hour late, so she called up and said she would come up and load and then go back to Holyoke. (I brought up blankets, sheets + towels) as I had suggested at Thanksgiving. Fredda was there and she said she would go to Holyoke to see Clara and could bring up the big bag which was for the Trip. We got back just as Clara's train came in. Then Edie noticed that Vanya had been left at Dickinson, so we all had to come up.
Edie, Clara, Elizabeth and I went to church this morning - cold - it was 7° at 9 o'clock. Very good music. Purcell's "Trumpet Prelude" with a good trumpeter and other nice things including 2 Bach numbers. We are to go to the outdoor pageant at 5:00 this evening dressed in our warmest clothes. Clara and I might pass it up, if it weren't that Elizabeth is in it as Mary, selected because she could be depended on not to giggle. As I looked at the Children's choir this morning I saw the point - most of the girls wouldn't be eligible.
You haven't said what you are doing for Christmas. I hope it is something pleasant. Much love, Alma.
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