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

WWP17317

Date

1904 May 15

Description

Eleanor Wilson McAdoo writes Jessie Wilson Sayre in Italy with news from Princeton, and to wish her good health

Source

Seeley G. Mudd Manuscript Library, Princeton University

Language

English

Text

My own, little, precious, darling Jess

I am oh so so sorry that you have been so sick. Oh I do so hope that you are much much better now and will be perfectly alright when this letter reaches you!We were so so glad to get the cablegram yesterday saying that you were better and giving your address. Oh I do want to see my own little sister and my precious darling mamma so badly. I'm just counting the days till you come back.
Every body here were so sorry to hear about you and all the teachers send their love particularly Miss Fine.
Have you gotten any letters from the girls yet? I gave them your address and they say that they will write.
How is darlingmamma? I do hope that she is perfectly well. And all the rest too?Our team has simply been doing bumly. They have been beaten almost every game that they play outside of Princeton and only beat the games here by a tscores of 1–2 or 3–4 and so forth.
We played Washington & Jefferson last Wednesday and beat them by the score of 1–2.
It was very exciting because Washington & Jefferson got a run in the first part of the first inning and it stayed that way all through the game till the end of the ninth inning when we got two runs.
The Washington & Jefferson pitcher was simply horrid. He got mad at the umpire several times during the game and then in the ninth inning got simply furious and shook his fist in his face and shouted at him and so, lost his temper and didnt pitch well and so Stevens made a fine hit way out and brought in two men. Whereas if he hadn't lost his temper they probably would have lost won the game because there were two men out when Stevens made his hit.
We played Cornell again at Ithaca yesterday and were beaten—7–8.
I don't know anything more about the game as I haven't seen any account of it yetThat last paragraph is simply fearful. I hope that you can make some sense out of it.
The freshmen beat LawrencevilleSaturday afternoon too I guess I've told you enough baseball news, haven't I? so I'll tell you something elseI spent Friday night over at the Hibbens and had a lovely time. I had invited Beth over here but her mother was going to be alone that night so I went over there instead. I'm going to leave her here next Friday.
We went to Seniors Singing Thursday night with Annie and they sang finely. They have some of the funniest new songs. They sing ever so much better than they did last year because they don't take near as long between every verse song like they used to We went again Friday night with Mrs Hibben and the singing was terrible. I suppose it was because Dr van Dyke was going to lecture that night and they wanted to go to it, and then besides Mr Truesdale wasn't there to lead them as he was Thursday night. But they only sang very half heartedly for about fifteen minutes and then broke up.
School is going on in the same old dull way with nothing going on at all except a few excitements supplied Philena and Lucretia and the other bad children in the scool school. For instance the latest exclusive was that Josephine Rust told the children that she was engaged and they immediately told it to every one and put up posters about it all over the school until Josephine in tears told Miss Fine about it and Miss Fine cleared it up.
There it's nine o'clock and I must write to Margie, so goodbye my own little precious love. Get well soonsoon give my love to darling mamma and to you dear little self and to all the rest.

Your loving little sister
Nell.

Original Format

Letter

To

Sayre, Jessie Woodrow Wilson, 1887-1933

Files

http://resources.presidentwilson.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/NWtoJWS19040515.pdf

Citation

McAdoo, Eleanor Wilson, 1889-1967, “Eleanor Randolph Wilson McAdoo to Jessie Woodrow Wilson Sayre,” 1904 May 15, WWP17317, Jessie Wilson Sayre Correspondence, Woodrow Wilson Presidential Library & Museum, Staunton, Virginia.