Eleanor Randolph Wilson McAdoo to Jessie Woodrow Wilson Sayre

Title

Eleanor Randolph Wilson McAdoo to Jessie Woodrow Wilson Sayre

Creator

McAdoo, Eleanor Wilson, 1889-1967

Identifier

WWP17430

Date

1908 February 17

Description

Eleanor Wilson McAdoo writes Jessie Wilson Sayre with news from St. Mary's School in Raleigh, NC.

Source

Seeley G. Mudd Manuscript Library, Princeton University

Language

English

Text

My own precious Jetty

I'm late as usual and by this time I suppose you have gotten used to it and don't expect to hear from me until Thursday or Friday. Oh Jetty, it has been sofine to have Mother here. I have been just as happy as the days were long and oh, they did go by so quickly. She is just the sweetest, dearest, most perfectMother that ever was, isn't she? Oh my I do love her so hard that it hurts. Weren't you delighted and surprised when she stopped over to see you? I am so glad she did. I am simply crazy to hear from either you or her and find out that she really got there safe and what time she got there and every thing. I do miss her so much and have been pretty homesick since she left. All the girls were just simply wild about her. They thought that she was just the sweetest, dearest loveliest thing that had ever seen, and she thought that they were lovely too and said I had such very nice friends. So it was just fine, altogether. I spent both the nights that she was here with her and it was just perfect bliss. We slept in one big bed together and just hugged each other tight. You know we couldn't get a room at the eExchange Hotel and so Aunt Annie got Dr. Goodwin who lives across the street to give us a room in his house. He was very glad to do it, in fact practically offered it before he was asked. But it was so funny being in this big grand house when we had never even seen the people that lived in it, because Mrs. Goodwin was sick and we didn't see her until the second night and then only for a minute. The first night we couldn't find the bathroom and we wandered hand in hand around that house in the dark. It struck me as so funny that I gave an awful snort and most bad “hystyrups” as Helen calls them. Helen is sitting in the room near me darning my stockings and every now and then she makes an extremely startling remark. The first one was, “Wouldn't it be funny if I was married to a monkey”!—and the last one was “Wouldn't it be nice to have a little baby to play with!” That was too much for me and I toppled out of my seat and went over on the floor chair and all. She knows that I have told you her first remark but not the second. She says she doesn't know what she'll do if I do tell you that she said that!! And she says give you her love—just lots of it. This is the next morning now. I'm afraid that my letter will be very late., and I'm so sorry.
I got your dear letter this morning and enjoyed it as much as ever. Yours eletters are so lovely, Jetty darling. But oh I was so disappointed to hear about Mothers not being able to stop in Baltimore and see you! I am so sorry dearest. I know how disappointed you were. But what time did she get home and why did you say that she went “straight on to NewYork”. I didn't know she was going there. You must have meant Philadelphia. The only thing that keeps me from feeling too disappointed and sorry about you not seeing her is that you are going home for Easter and will see her then. Won't that be fine. What fun you must have had the dance! How I wish I could have been there. It must have been glorious fun with so many extra men so that you could split dances, and all. I'm so glad you went. Ill have to stop now and tdo some work for I have a class at eleven. I am well and happy though very homesick for Mother as is natural. We have been doing nothing exciting. I wish we would so that I could write you a more interesting letter. Good-bye precious. With a whole heartful over flowing with love and kisses for my Jetty from

Your devoted little sister
Nell.

Original Format

Letter

To

Sayre, Jessie Woodrow Wilson, 1887-1933

Files

http://resources.presidentwilson.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/NWtoJWS19080217.pdf

Citation

McAdoo, Eleanor Wilson, 1889-1967, “Eleanor Randolph Wilson McAdoo to Jessie Woodrow Wilson Sayre,” 1908 February 17, WWP17430, Jessie Wilson Sayre Correspondence, Woodrow Wilson Presidential Library & Museum, Staunton, Virginia.