Edward W. Axson to Jessie Woodrow Wilson Sayre

Title

Edward W. Axson to Jessie Woodrow Wilson Sayre

Creator

Axson, Edward W.

Identifier

WWP17273

Date

1898 November 6

Description

Edward W. Axson writes to his niece Jessie Wilson Sayre about her schooling and a bicycle trip.

Source

Seeley G. Mudd Manuscript Library, Princeton University

Language

English

Text

My dear Jessie

Your letter came some time ago and I was very glad to hear from you once more. Letters are awfully nice things to receive when you are away off by yourself—though they dont seem quite as nice when it comes to answering them.
So you girls are going to school now. It is very different from what you expected isnt it—do you remember how you used to say you never wanted to go to school. Which one of you gets the most whippings? You are beginning Latin you say—are you studying French too? If you keep on taking up a new language every year this way you will be so learned we wont know you. Have you got to amo, amas yet? When I come to Princeton now I suppose I will have to read Latin for three girls instead of only Aunt Margaret.
At the place where I get my meals a little girl eats also about Nellies age—she goes to school too and every morning she asks the waitress please to get her lunch. She told me the other day that her school lasted till one oclock and “that was too long for a little girl like her to go without lunch.” She is a funny little thing—she frequently comes in without her mother but she is so independent she seems fully able to take care of herself.
Did you take your trip to the Millstone—it must be beautiful down there at this time of year. I havent hardly seen a colored leaf this fall—I have been so busy I havent had a chance to get out of Boston. I have ridden my wheel only once since I came. One night a party of us rode out to Brookline, one of the suburbs, where we took a swim in a beautiful marble pool they have there in imitation of an old Roman bath. Then we dressed and took a fifteen mile bicycle ride by moonlight—it was fine.
Well it is late and I must close. Be sure to make us beat Yale on Saturday. With lots of love for Margaret, Nellie, yourself and all.Nov. 6, '98.

Lovingly
Ed

Original Format

Letter

To

Sayre, Jessie Woodrow Wilson, 1887-1933

Files

http://resources.presidentwilson.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/EAtoJWS18981106.pdf

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Citation

Axson, Edward W., “Edward W. Axson to Jessie Woodrow Wilson Sayre,” 1898 November 6, WWP17273, Jessie Wilson Sayre Correspondence, Woodrow Wilson Presidential Library & Museum, Staunton, Virginia.