Letters, Junior Year, Semester II & Summer , 1920 May-September

This file covers the second part of Henrietta’s spring semester and the summer between junior and senior year is filled with adventures at Eaglesmere and New Lisbon. She also develops her relationship with the Haverford boys.

She goes to a house party in her spring semester, staying in a cabin on the North Branch Rancocas River near New Lisbon. Henrietta goes into further detail about her relationships with the boys from Haverford; Morris, Gil, Bob, and Tom. She notes the sadness that she feels about her Haverford friends graduating soon, and her experiences going to the Junior Dance with Morris. There is a humorous incident with Bob, wherein Bob comments that “he had read somewhere in a poem of the fragrance of a woman’s hair but he had never believed it till now”. In reality, Henrietta admits in the letter she just hasn’t washed her hair in a month and was extremely embarrassed.

Rather than spend a summer at home in Westport, Henrietta passes her time in Eaglesmere, Pennsylvania. Here, she tutors and leads a dance class. These letters include a drawing of the cabin done by Henrietta.