Eleanor Randolph Wilson McAdoo to Jessie Woodrow Wilson Sayre

I just hope ever so much that you'll have a perfectly lovely time, and I do hope that you won't get sea-sick.
I am dreadfully sorry that you I couldn't get more than nine letters instead of twelve, but Ruth Hall wasn't in school and couldn't give me yo her's and Blanchard didn't write any and so I really I couldn't. Was this what you thought the secret was? You don't know how hard it is to keep a secret from you, darling little thing. You just couldn't possibly tell how much I love you.
This certainly isn't a very interesting letter but there isn't anything at all to tell you except that I love you. and will miss you so much.
You'll tell me all about Italy when you get back won't you, darling? I just hope that you'll have heaps of fun.
This letter isn't fit to show amnyone, is it? Don't show it to anybody except darlingmamma! I guess mMiss Fine's will be the nicest of the lot, because she writes such sweet notes.Please excuse these awful blots and markings out. I scarcely know what I'm writing. I suppose that you can't make any sense out of it at all. Goodbye my own darling sweet sweet little sister and tell my own precious darling darlingmamma, goodbye too.