_Mrs. Olmsted Morrison to Colonel Ralph Gray._
MY DEAR COLONEL: Of course it is to you, Henry’s oldest friend, that I
write first to tell the charming news that his daughter Helen is coming
to us in a week. She has “finished her studies for the present,” so she
writes, and we are at last to see the dear child. We are delighted to
have her come, and feel that she must meet you at once. You will
certainly find her to your taste, as she is so highly educated and not
at all like these society girls whom you justly condemn as utterly
frivolous.
We have arranged a little dinner-party for Thursday, the twenty-fourth,
and positively count on you to come and put us all in a good humor with
one of your inimitable war stories.
Most cordially your friend,
MARIAN V. MORRISON.
Friday, November the eighteenth.
_Mrs. Morrison to the Reverend Percival Beaufort._
MY DEAR MR. BEAUFORT: Will you give us the great pleasure of seeing you
at dinner on Thursday evening, at half-past eight? Only severe illness
has kept me from asking this favor long ago, so that I very much hope
nothing will prevent your accepting now. Eleanor tells me to remind you
that the Young People’s Guild has been changed to _Wednesday_ evening,
so at least _that_ will not interfere with your acceptance. If you come,
virtue will not be its own reward in this case. I have a niece whom I am
particularly anxious you should meet. She is intensely interested in all
charities--especially London charities--and is very quiet and charming,
if not exactly pretty. But I am sure you agree with me that beauty is
often only a snare!
The girls particularly wish to be remembered.
Most truly yours,
MARIAN V. MORRISON.
Friday, November the eighteenth.
_Mrs. Morrison to Professor Albert Radnor, Johns Hopkins University,
Baltimore._
November the eighteenth.
MY DEAR PROFESSOR RADNOR: Can we persuade you to abandon your lectures
and experiments long enough to dine with us on the evening of the
twenty-fourth? I know we are very frivolous and not at all the people to
interest _you_, however much _you_ interest _us_, but I fancy I shall
have someone here whom you will be glad to meet. I want you to know my
niece, Miss Helen Hammersley. She is an immensely clever girl--has
taken her degree at one of our famous women’s colleges, and has just
returned from a year of Oxford and the Bodleian, so that I feel
reasonably sure she will be able to _listen_ intelligently to you, at
any rate. She is greatly interested in your specialty, and will
certainly esteem it the greatest privilege to meet such a noted
authority on the subject as yourself.