Holly Hotel Monday evening, April 29th
Dear Folks,
Received Margaret's letter this afternoon. Will not get away fro a while as nothing has been delivered but our shoes. No, do not start sending mail 'over there' until a week has elapsed since hearing from me. Any coming here would be forwarded.
I wonder if Joe was on one of the boats that collided and returned to port.
Saturday morning a party of us visited the Statue of Liberty and climbed up to her crown. The arm had been condemned and closed. Have been rather tender above the knees ever since! In the afternoon walked up 5th Ave to 50th St and back.
Sunday morning Miss Samuelson, Dunlop and self attended the Little Church around the corner. A lovely shirch with beautiful memorials-windows and paintings, but the service too Hifh Church for me. Miss Samuelson liked it. Spent the afternoon with the Sunday Times and wrote letters to Clara Thomas and Emma Schaefer. In the evening Misses Dundas, Dunlap and self attended Grace Chruch. The music is splendid. I am told the boy soprano receives the highest salary of any boy singer in NY.
It rained a little all morning so I stayed indoors and finished my trench cap for the steamer. This afternoon walked Miss Dundas up as far as Central Park and back. Expect to go to Brooklyn tomorrow and perhaps the Bronx the following afternoon.
Received letters from Mrs. Pearce and Mrs. Edger White. We signed the payroll the other day so I fancy we will be paid before leaving here. Twenty will go to you. Keep enough ahead to pay my insurance and put the rest in War Stamps. Plan to buy my a $50 bond in every Liberty Loan Drive. Glad to know Minnesota did so well.
I'll send cards to English relatives when I get over there.
It looks as if the Germans would get the Channel Ports. D--- them!!!
Did I not tell you that Edith MacKay's father had a stroke and is in a serious condition so it will be some time before she returns to Minneapolis. When at liberty I think she will join the Canadian Unit and go to France. A Canadian nurse was urging her to join a unit with her just as her father was taken ill.
How lovely for Janet and Ada Perkins to be in Washington DC.
So Janet Thomas Hopper has a boy. What color is his hair? Red I hope.
Affectionately, Jane