September 18, 1923 Cleveland to Northhampton, Massachusetts

 September 17, 1923

Dear Helen:

    Your mother's letter, saying that you were coming thru Cleveland took me by surprise, I do now know why, because in your letters you wrote saying that you were probably going East to school,so that it was not so unusual to receive a letter saying you were coming thru. Nevertheless I was stunned and this may account for the fact that I did not say much at the depot that Friday evening. Besides you three girls had so much to say to each other that it was rather difficult for me to get in a word once in a while, but I certainly was glad to see you and Mary Louise again. It seemed like a page out of history to see you two standing there after having seen you last more than a year ago several hundred, not to say thousand, miles away and as I sit here writing and smoking my pipe I can see a room all lit up and several couples dancing back in old El Paso. Well that is enough of that.

   How do you like it there at Smith. Has college opened? I'll bet you and Mary Louise are so busy getting settled down and getting sued to your new surroundings that you have hardly any time to think of anything else. The first few days you will feel somewhat lost, perhaps, but you will soon get over that no doubt in spite of the fact that you will have to study hard. However by working hard your good times will seem so much better then. It may interest you to know that several girls whom I know here in Cleveland will be freshmen at Smith this year. The are "Jo" Rudolph, Dorcas McEwen, Charlotte Kind, and if you meet them tell them hello for me. I have not seen them all summer so I do not know any more than that they are going to Smith. Just wait until college is in full swing and you will certainly enjoy the life. I wish that I were going to college East so that we could all see each other oftener, [er crossed out] but as I am going back to Case this year it will be impossible . Should we see each other some time I hope we will more time to talk to each other than at the depot last Friday, as that was something short.

    Did you bid Jim Turner a fond farewell when you left ? However, that is no doubt a useless question as you certainly must have, if not I am ashamed of both of you.

    This stuff must be wearing on your nerves, besides he evening is geting old and feeble so I will close.

    Please remember I am alive and write mesome time before you thru college.

As ever

Fred.

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