{Lutheran Theological Seminary and Waterloo College Waterloo, Ont.}, Nov. 25, 1923
Dear Mother:
Your nice interesting letter of the 20th inst was gladly received a day or two ago and was much enjoyed. I was especially pleased to know that at your age you were in the enjoyment of a reasonable portion of health and strength and were able still to extract pleasure out of life. May this be your experience for years yet to come! And while I am on this subject I will say that I was very much interested in hearing about old Dr. Bikle, who gave me my start particularly in the classics. He was one of the finest Latin teachers I ever sat under, and I learned to read Latin almost like English under him. I was glad to hear that he is still “in the land of the living.” I believe, however, you are mistaken in his age. According to my calculations he should be 95 instead of 85 now. Is Harold, whose birth-day you mentioned, attending Lenoir College this year? or what is he doing? Carolus is getting along fine with his College work. He writes out all his German exercises in the German script and writes it with the same facility as he does the English. He is improving rapidly also in his French, in which he was not doing so well till I took him in hand and helped him out with it. I think, he is now the best in his class on that subject. He is also doing well in his Latin and other subjects. He is taking quite an interest in music now too and can
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play quite a number of hymns with fine expression. He does this all by himself as Bonnie has been so busy that she has not been able to start the children in their lessons this year yet. Tell Herbert I received the papers he sent and read them with much interest. I could easily recognize that the material and the logic were his. I was pleased to know that Blanche was doing so well, now that she is back in old North Carolina again. We received a letter from her last week in which she said she had a school and a few music pupils, but, out of modesty I presume, did not mention how much she was making. If her husband were half the hustler that she is they should get along swimmingly now; but I suppose, if he supports himself it is about all that can be expected of him. Last week I received the announcement of Carroll Henderson’s marriage, and I should acknowledge it, I suppose, but will have to defer it for the want of stamps and the wherewith to buy therm. However, payday is due again the last of the this week when there will be relief again for a time. I may get a little preaching to do next month. Pastor Roberts asked me to preach for him on the 3rd Sunday in Advent and Dr. Maurer would send me to Morrisburg during the Christmas vacation if I care to go. This would involve my being away from home during Christmas which I don’t like. On the other hand I sorely need the money I would make. So I don’t know yet just what I will do. I was down at Church this morning and was well pleased with Pastor Roberts' sermon on 2Pet. 3:4-5. It was a very good sermon. I am glad you have a Pastor now whom you can respect and listen to with edification. I met Dr. [S?] the night I preached in Holy Trinity when I was home a year ago. Of course I remember him also from the early days when he was yet a student at Lenoir College.
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We had quite a snow storm here Friday. It snowed all day and left 3 or 4 inches of snow on the ground. This stayed with us until to-day and the ground is still about half covered, but with the bright warm sunshine of to-day it has been melting rapidly. We have, however, had on the whole the mildest autumn this year that we have had for years. To-morrow night our combined Faculties – College and Seminary – are invited to attend a banquet given by the Rotary Club of Kitchener at the Dominion Tire Caffeteria at which a University Extension Lecture is to be given by one of the Professors of the University of Western Ontario, London, Ont. They are sending automobiles over for us. Bonnie says she is glad I am going to this, as she says I have my nose always in a book and thinks I am too much given to study. However, I find time nearly every night to have a game or so of chess, generally with Robert. Last night we played three games and he got two and is quite proud that he is champion over his father. But he is a cracker-jack at it and goes over and beats the College boys. They often pay him a penny or so to come over and play with them. As I am writing Ruth is singing “Tausendmal Tausendmal Dank Iafür, Grosner Koning, Wank sec dir.” Little Catharine is getting to be very active lately. She threw out her fist the other day and knocked her mother’s glasses off - damage $3.00. She is the best, the happiest and most contented baby we have had. I am enclosing the second installment of Mr. Jaman’s Russian Bolshevist history. Don’t know whether you are interested or not. Herbert may be interested in it. Well, I must close for this time. With love to all, I am, Most sincerely yours,
[signed] Carroll H. Little.
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P.S. Glad to have had a word from Aunt Cal.
