Eleanor Randolph Wilson McAdoo to Jessie Woodrow Wilson Sayre

I am a wretch as usual and haven't written to you on Sunday. I am so sorry but I have got a good excuse this time for you know Margie was here and I stayed all the time I possibly could with her. I even had to get up early on Monday morning to write to Mother, as I had to spend every minute of the rest of the day studying for and taking an awful old English test on back work, I had missed. I sure did study hard and consequently I got through alright. But there is another one to take next Monday and I have to study all this week on that. Isn't it pathetic? I certainly am a badly treated person. Oh Jetty, it was so grand to see Margie, wasn't it? She looked so sweet and pretty and she was so dear. She is going to have a perfectly glorious time in Chapel Hill and I certainly did want to go with her. I went to Aunt Annie's, where she was staying, for Saturday dinner and spent the evening there. Then on Sunday I went there again to dinner and after dinner we came up here and I showed her all around and introduced her to the girls and took her to afternoon chapel and supper. Then after supper Miss Thomas and Margie and “us” sat in the parlour and had a fine time talking and laughing. They all like Margieso much and she liked them so much and she was just crazy about Miss Thomas, as I knew she would be. It was all so lovely and I did get so homesick when she went away. I must tell you something so funny and cute that Margie did. When she met one of the girls, a perfect dear and one whom we have been rushing ever since last year when she was a prep. and couldn't be asked, Margie said, “And this is one of the four, isn't it?” It didn't matter at all,—her saying that—because we have been sure of Bessie and she of us for almost a year, but it was so funny and cute and Bessie was so embarrassed and Janie, who is “one of the four”, couldn't resist the temptation and said, “Not yet, but soon”! Margaret was so amused and so were we. Oh, Detty, how I wish that you could come down here too sometime and meet everybody and have them know you! Wouldn't it be fine! Nothing has happened this week, worth telling. I have been working very hard, both at my lessons and at rushing. We have only a week now before we send out the invitations and the excitement is rising to a high pitch. I can't help wishing at this period of proceedings that there weren't any such things, even here in this place, where it is all so quiet. Because, I declare, we are all so worked up and worried that we looked almost pale and thin. None of us has been through it before and we aren't used to it.Margie said that nothing was happening with you yet and oh I'm so glad, because it would be so hard on you if you had to resign. Oh, my own, sweetest sister, how I love you and adore you, and oh If I could only see you now how happy I would be! It is exactly five weeks and two days now and that's not much is it? Are you going home Thanksgiving, dearie? I hope you can. When you go be sure to superintend the getting off of my box because I don't want it to fail to get here! I must get this off on the five o'clock mail, and that means that I'll have to stop immediately on if not sooner. Oh Jetty, imagine you teaching a Bible class!! I wish I could see you, and be in it, too.Good-bye, my own dear—With all of my great love for you and a kiss from