Letters, Junior Year, Semester I , 1919 September-1920 January

This folder contains letters from Henrietta’s first semester junior year. The major themes of this file are Henrietta’s responsibilities in the Book Shop, events on campus, and her battle against bronchitis.

Henrietta details the responsibilities of the bookshop. Henrietta and the other two students (Miriam Brown and Cecile Bolton) who run the store are in charge of ordering stock, counting income and keeping track of the ‘credit’ slips. Henrietta enjoys her new job a lot, saying that she “would feel lost without it”. Events that Henrietta attended includes the senior reception and the “League of Nations” rally in her Chapel. She was also on campus for the Alum conference for the Endowment fund. All the residents of Pembroke West (including Henrietta) had to move to Pembroke East and take their meals into another hall.

During Henrietta’s first semester of her junior, she contracts bronchitis and stays in the infirmary to be treated. Later in the semester, she contracts another illness and stays in the infirmary again. One of the nurses and Henrietta pass the time by making fun of a recent lecture on “How to Choose the Right Husband.”

At the end of January, the college went into quarantine due to the flu epidemic. Henrietta addresses the rules regarding Bryn Mawr College’s quarantine protocol. Researchers should note that there is a gap in time and there are no letters for the month of November.