Eleanor Randolph Wilson McAdoo to Jessie Woodrow Wilson Sayre

Now very, very glad I was to get your first precious letter and also your second precious letter. I am so sorry that I didn't write on Sunday and particularly sorry after I read your pathetic vindication (Goodness! Is that the right word?) and appeal. No I'm not sick and I have written every week, I think—So there! Anyway, if I haven't I won't ever be bad any more, and I will try to write every Monday because I never have a minute on Sundays. Isn't it a shame that that should be about the busiest day in the week? I am going from morning to-night—right after breakfast we dress for church, then go to Sunday school, then right to church—then after church I go down to Aunt Annies and stay there to dinner and spend the afternoon just getting back in time for evening chapel. From chapel we go right to supper and after supper there are chapter meetings and so forth that take up practically all of the evening since we have to go to bed at 9.30 on Sundays. Isn't that a nice quiet Sunday? But yours is almost as bad with Bible class and all. Oh, I would give anything to see my precious Detty teaching a Bible class!! Do you still blush?We have been having the usual quiet uneventful time. Everybody feels tired and rather let down after the worry and work of exams. I haven't heard from any of the others yet but I'm not worrying about them because I don't care much if I do flunk them. What do you mean, Day-day, by saying that you are doing bum work in college this year? As if you ever have done bum work in your life. I don't believe it! I have just heard a sad piece of news—that is I heard it three nights ago and have been brooding over it in disgust ever since. Miss Thomas broke the news to me that in order to get an English certificate I would have to make up and take an exam on all the Junior English that I missed last year!!! It isn't quite as bad as it sounds for what I missed is only about half of a book we studied last year—but still oh my, it seems as if I am always making up back work. I have only just finished making up Senior English work I am going to try to do it in two weeks that is before Mother comes! Oh Detty I can hardly wait for her to come! The time is going so slowly and oh I am so happy about her coming! I wish you could her too, sweet, darling sister mine. I love you oh too much for words ever to express it—and oh I am always longing so to see you and stay with you for always and never go away again. Goodbye my sweetest, I must do some studying. With a hreat big hug and great, long kiss for my Detty.