Friday evening May 3rd, 1918
My Dear Margaret,
Your letter written Tuesday reached me today with clippings enclosed. Continue to cut interesting bits out of the Tribune instead of sending me the whole paper. Only one paper reaches me.
We are still here and I think we are all impatient to 'move on.' Do not know how true it is but we hear that the hospital with which we unite is not up to full strength as regards nurses and we are waiting for more to come. The last two days I have noticed new faces in the dining room so they are arriving.
Are you to canvas the county selling W.S.S.?
Have spent the last two mornings indoors knitting and studying French. As I am not through breakfast before nine o'clock the mornings are gone before much is accomplished.
Yesterday afternoon I went over to Greenwood cemetery but it is like looking for a needle in a haystack and I did not think it important enough to trouble the records. Do you remember in what part of the cemetery Uncle Alfred's grave is? It is a beautiful cemetery, so well kept up and such beautiful beds of large pansies and violets.
This afternoon I rode on top of the bus with Misses Dunlop and Dundas as far as 114th St. and Riverside Drive. They were calling on someone at Columbia. I walked from there across to Central Park, down through the Park to 5th Ave and home. Quite a walk, but I felt the need to exercise and enjoyed it. Got caught in the rain just before reaching the Hotel.
We saw the French soldiers who arrived the first of the week being shown the sights from the tops of three buses. When I came home they were all in front of the Public Library-where one of the principle Liberty Loan booths is-being treated to soft drinks. They wear dark blue uniforms, round caps like a small tam o'shanter, and many of them wear several decorations.
There was an affair of some kind in Washington Square the other night at which Caruso sang. We heard him from Miss Dunlop's room but did not know until afterwards that it was he. Papers tell little of coming events but of the past!
Very fortunate that William does not have to go to war or what would mother do!! It is very easy for you to think of me as being on a case in Minneapolis. I hope we are sent to Frances.
I may not write again until Monday evening after Uncle has been.
Is Frances' hot bed a success? I hope the favorable was news continue.
Love, Jane