Margaret Woodrow Wilson to Jessie Woodrow Wilson Sayre

I am so sorry you have been sick. I have just heard from Nellie today about it. Aunt Annie told me Friday that Papa had just had a cablegram saying that you had had diptheria but were well. I was so shocked. Nobody wrote to me about it until to-day. I couldn't write and ask them to tell me about it because Aunt Annie asked me not to say anything about it to the family until they told me about it, because strangely they didn't want me to know. Nellie took for granted that Aunt Annie would tell me. You can imagine how I have been feeling, not hearing from or being able to write to my family about my darling sister. Now that I have received her letter I am worried because it is indefinite and I can't glean from it exactly how you are. She says in one part that you are much better but can't sail. In another part that you are alright. If you were alright you could sail. I am so disapointed that you are not coming as soon as you expected to darling. I hope by the time this letter reaches you you will be entirely well. I am going to write to Nell after lunch and ask her to tell me more about it so I won't be worried long. When Aunt Annie told me, I wasn't worried because I thought you were alright. Would that I could fly to Italy and see you on to Princeton where I would not be in suspense as to what is happening.
I find that it impossible to make up all my work. I have so much. So I am going to leave the odes of Horace to the Summer. Miss Van D said that she thought it would be bad book for my eyes, and for myself to read so much Latin at once. I am going to try to make up everything else. I am afraid though that I might fail.
The seniors, our seniors begin to sing on the steps of Goucher Hall tomorrow evening and have invited the freshman class to sing with them. I fwill feel so proud to sing with the Seniors; it will feel so funny to sing on the steps just like the boys. I am simply so crazy to see you and dear Mamma again, in short for us all to be together again that I can hardly think of anything else.
My thin paper has given out so I will have to finnish on thick paper. Commencement here is going to be very exciting. Also something even more exciting must come before. The examinations begin Thursday of next week; but I don't have any until June second except a sort of examination in Latin Prose which we will have Friday. It will count as a final. I am not very afraid of that.
We are going to have our banquet in the Belvedere the famous new hotel here. I don't whether you have heard of it or not. It is the most fashionable hotel here. I was going to say “swell” but I remembered what you told me.
There isn't anything else to tell you dearie. For everything is very quiet here now.
I forgot about the picnic. The Southern went on a picnic the other day. I was so glad to get into the country. The country around Baltimore is perfectly beautiful. We sat on a wall overlooking a stream and dangled our legs while we eat sandwiches and thingsMr Alexander came to see Annie the other day for which Aunt Annie and Little Annie were very glad. Aunt Annie asked me if I didn't think it a remarkable coincidence that little Annie had just that day finnished counting fifty white horses. You know the story is that the first man you shake hands with after doing that you will marry.
I really must stop now for it is lunch time. Goodbye darling little Jessie. Give my love to dearest Mother and the rest keeping a whole lot for yourself.