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Acknowledges Ruth’s arrival in Boston and then Marblehead; mentions enclosing a letter from F.R.

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Acknowledges that Ruth is invited to spend Xmas in Marblehead with Portia; announces intention to send $25 so Ruth can buy a ticket to Washington.

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Advises Ruth to consider carefully whether to stay for Xmas; acknowledges Ruth’s Red Cross work, which could be continued in Washington. [3 x 5 card]

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Hopes Mother Thompson will come to Washington soon; mentions Harold working in Berwich and going back and forth to Philadelphia and Washington.

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Mentions plans to go to Washington and intention to send Ruth a check for $25. [3 x 5 card]

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Describes Suzanne as alone and anxious to have them in Washington; intends to arrive Saturday 4pm; mentions Ruth’s plans for Xmas and tells her to expect a small package.

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“I don’t think ‘Uncle Sam’ will mind if I steel [sic] a few minutes”; inquires about his ‘Flu’.

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Mentions her birthday, August 4, age 29; characterizes friendship with FPS as unique; describes conditions at the camp; mentions Mother’s trip to California, and hoping to see FPS in September.

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Mentions that Harold also is taking a forced vacation.

Scope and Contents Ruth travels back east over the holiday season to visit friends in Marblehead, New Haven, and Poughkeepsie. In January she joins her mother in Washington, DC, visiting her brothers and sisters-in-law and sightseeing. There is much war news; back in Indianapolis Ruth continues Red Cross work and attends parties for officers; her two brothers and Frank Richards are sent to Europe, though not to the front lines; Ruth goes to work for the sugar division of the government’s rationing...

Scope and Contents From the Collection: Diaries, scrapbooks, and letters, circa 1905-1919, of Ruth Thompson of Indianapolis, Indiana. Includes scrapbooks and diaries of Thompson's time at the Bradford Academy, a women's boarding school in Haverhill, Massachusetts. There are also diaries from after Thompson's graduation, when she returned to Indianapolis. These include entries about World War I, including newspaper clippings of people from her area who were drafted. Finally, there are letters written to Thompson by various...

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“To the one that broke my nose”; describes impression Ruth made on her visit to Lyman’s college.

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Mentions places and people Ruth is visiting in the east, as well as her attendance at a class reunion.

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Mentions Fred’s recent visit and “this horrid war”, and asks about his plans for a new lock.

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Reports on time in San Francisco and at the Exposition and on plans for her return home; comments on her relationship with J.H.D.