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

WWP17427

Date

1908 February 3

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 afraid that this can be only a very short letter as I have just reams of work to do this morning and besides there is absolutely nothing to tell you about for nothing ever happens in this monotonous place. We have been just going on in the same old way with nothing exciting happening at all. I am just living for the twelfth when Mother comes and my! it certainly is a long time coming. I am also living for the time when my “box” comes, which Mother said she was going to have sent me soon after she left. I have never been so hungry in all my life and if I don't get something good to eat right soon I don't know what I will do. Don't you pity us, Day-day; we have the awfullest old watery soup three times a week for lunch and absolutely nothing else except bread and tea. I wouldn't drink the soup if I was starving and so I do starve on bread and tea. For Sunday dinner, instead of the nice chicken and rice and peas etc that we used to have last year they give us awful old stew-y indistinguishable meat and for dessert tapioca pudding! Isnt that just too disgusting—and for a Southern school too! But I oughtn't to fuss about Sunday dinners because I always have a dandy one at Aunt Annies. That's the only thing that saves my life and I eat like a big old pig when I get there. I hope you will weep a few tears of sympathy when you read this pathetic account of our sufferings. I hope that next time I write I will have something to tell you about and won't have reg to dwell on things like this. Here is one piece of news anyway—Aunt Annie and Annie have both had the grippe and Aunt Annie is still not well at all. Annie, of course, has missed another week of school! It seems to me that I never write you a letter without telling you about Annies staying away from school. Isn't it a shame? Oh, Detty darling, I just love you so, so much and I wish I could see you and give you in person the greatbig hug and kiss that I am sending you in this. Goodbye darling, sweetest dear, With a heartful of love from


Nell.

Original Format

Letter

To

Sayre, Jessie Woodrow Wilson, 1887-1933

Files

http://resources.presidentwilson.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/NWtoJWS19080203.pdf

Citation

McAdoo, Eleanor Wilson, 1889-1967, “Eleanor Randolph Wilson McAdoo to Jessie Woodrow Wilson Sayre,” 1908 February 3, WWP17427, Jessie Wilson Sayre Correspondence, Woodrow Wilson Presidential Library & Museum, Staunton, Virginia.