Letter, Kate Gleason to James Gleason

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William Gleason,
Manufacturer of Machinists Tools,
Office, Brown’s Race,

Rochester, N.Y., March. 6th. 1889
My Dear Boy,-
As it turns out your eloquence was not needed on Miss
Crane. As it generally is, mine alone was sufficent to charm her.
If it is easy for you to come on with her, that will make things more
agreable all ‘round but if you get through before she does as she
intimates is likly to be the case, I would advise you not to wit for
her for it would be advisable for you to come out of Ithaca on the
first train you can take. I have told her that Father is anxious-
ly waiting your return to take care of the shop so that he can
take a western trip and that will smooth things over so that she
won’t mind your not waiting for her.
The Era’s account of the freshman
banquet was highly interesting. At first I was astonished to see that
you did not seem to have the principal toast of the occasion but re-
flection convinced me that you were not asked on the same principle
that Dr. Shurman was left out,-your genius would have so overshad-
owed the others that all subsequent efforts would be unutterably flat.
I am trying to induce my paternal relative to let me go to Mount
Vernon, O. after an order for an 84” X 84” that a concern down there
are inquiring for but he does’nt give me any encouragement and if
the firm fails to capture that order you will know the reason why.
Emma wrote me that she was thinking of coming home this next Sat=

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urday night but that Mrs. Slick and “the boys” were bringing a
great deal of pressure to bear on her to induce her to prolong her
visit and she might have to weaken though at the time she wrote her
back-bone was firm as Gibralter. However if she is as near coming
home as that, she will probably be here the week after and we will
have you all together. If I had supposed the term would be so pro-
longed, I would have sent you more money in that last draft but I
somewhere acquired the idea that the term closed before Inauguration
Day. Think it must have been because you spoke of going with the bat-
talion to Washington for Inauguration and I did’nt suppose the bat-
talion would contemplate that trip in term time. You will probab-
ly glad our eyes sometime about the last of this week or the begin-
ing of next. If you cannot stand off your creditors, let me know
and I will send you some more spondulics. If the country is in
a walkable condition when you arrive so that we will have an oppor-
tunity to reach the neighborhood where rail fences abound, I will
be able to show you some things that can be done in the line of vault=
ing by a finished gymnast. I am so far ahead of everybody else I
know in that line that I prance about like Goliath among the Phil-
istines.
Very lovingly,
Kate.