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Hinman Bigelow Letters: Express Your Gratitude (4 Mar 1919)

This letter was written on 4 March 1919. Hinman Bigelow writes a letter about his plans for vacation as he continues to be a jerk to his poor mother.

March 4th,

Dear Mother,

I received your very interesting letter also the $3. But that won't pay my debt and get a pair of "puts" and leave me any allowance, so you send the money I asked for! If I send you some negatives to be taken to Haworths on the Boardwalk do you think you could do it right? Well I will try you out, just take these negatives and say to them that you want one of each printed and then get them, pay for them out of my next allowance and send them to me as soon as done.

Don't take any of them! If you want any of them leave the negatives there afterwards and get the ones you want, but rush the originals.

About this coming vacation, Bob Card, Kemble and myself have decided to stay in Mercersburg and get off all our conditions, and after that to run down to Philadelphia to visit Card for a day or so. Well that will save a week and a half of board at Craig Hall, besides getting my conditioned subjects above grade. Well send me a check for twenty five and I will stay and do this. It is an awful sacrifice to be penned up here, never allowed out at night and down to town only two hours a day. Some prison but I will stand it for it will get me back into the good graces of Dr. Irvine.

Here is my expense outline.
Allowance for week and half	$7.00
(Remember this vacation)
Trip to Phila and back	20.00
Tip to waiter	1.00
"     "   Bidy	1.00
	$30.00

That is running pretty close considering I will have to get my suits pressed out of that. I promise I won't visit anybody in Philadelphia except Aunt Hattie for about half an hour! Bob and his father have a day all planned for me. He is the fellow that lived in Elkins Park, who I was going to see this summer. Bob's folks are very respectable people and I will be perfectly safe in their care. Or maybe if you want I will drop in on you for 1 day?

I must have a little vacation or I'll go wild being penned up like a convict.

Well write soon and express your gratitude for my act.

Your loving son,
Hinman

P.S. If I took the whole vacation, I would be conditioned and would spend at least $25 more dollars for board and clothes and excitement! So consider faithfully!

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Hinman Bigelow Letters: Kiddish Attitude (25 Feb 1919)

This letter was written on 25 February 1919. Mercersburg Academy headmaster, Dr. William Mann Irvine, writes Hinman Bigelow's mother about Hinman's promises to do better in school.

February 25, 1919.

Mrs. Anna C. Bigelow,
Philadelphia, Pa.

My dear Mrs. Bigelow:

Your kind letter of recent date has been received. I permitted your son to read your letter and we discussed the same very frankly. He assures me that he is trying to keep away from the guard squad. I want him to clean up his guard record and then get no more guard. He also says that he is trying to study more faithfully than ever before. He is anxious to do some jumping in the spring term and he realizes that he must clean up his record or he will not be eligible for the team. I certainly hope that he will hold to his good resolution.

Don't worry too much about the boy. Simply do your best and with our backing we hope that we can pull him through in good style. He has a lot of fine qualities and it is just a "kiddish" different attitude on his part that makes the trouble for him. If he can change this attitude so that he will be more ambitious the battle will be won.

With very kind regards, believe me,

Most cordially yours,
William Mann Irvine

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Dear Valentine...

Dear Valentine,

If I can't have you, no one can.

xoxo

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Hinman Bigelow Letters: Guard Sheet (18 Feb 1919)

This letter was written on 18 February 1919. Mercersburg Academy headmaster, Dr. William Mann Irvine, writes Hinman Bigelow's mother about the long list of guard and demerits he has acquired during the winter term.

February
18--1919

Mrs. Anna C. Bigelow,
Philadelphia, Pa.

My dear Mrs. Bigelow:

I herewith enclose a copy of your son's guard record for the winter term. As you will recognize, it is a pretty bad record. In truth, it is one of the worst made in our school during the present term. I have had several conferences with your son. He always promises to do better. When he goes back into the school he forgets some of his promises. Disobedience, insolence, obscene language and impertinence are certainly not complimentary to any boy's record. Your son really ought to be a leader in the school. He has the ability to make everyone respect him. At the present time with such a record the best boys of the school cannot possibly respect him. As I told him, he acts like a boy who is eight or ten years of age and who had not yet learned the lesson of self-control.

In our interview this morning your son promised not to get any more guard and I certainly hope he will keep that promise. I want you to write him a most urgent letter on receipt of this communication. You will note the fact that he has eighty hours of guard and four demerits standing against him and six demerits will automatically dismiss him from the school. He has been with us for a number of years and I feel humiliated that a boy who knows Mercersburg as he is supposed to know it should act in this way.

With kindest regards, believe me,

Most cordially yours,
William Mann Irvine

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Hinman Bigelow Letters: Specimen of Loyalty (17 Feb 1919)

This letter was written on 17 February 1919. Hinman Bigelow isn't happy with the reply his mother sent him, but he has finally given up asking for the car. That doesn't mean he's done asking for money though!

Feb 17th. 1919,

Dear Mrs. Bigelow,

I received your very sarcastic and poorly spelled letter.

About the passing of my English, if I don't pass it I won't come back after Spring vacation so if you don't send the money I am out of luck!

Also I must have at least $3 extra for the debate Feb 22nd. next Saturday so please send it as I must get my suits fixed up and everything.

You are right, I did have auto fever.

As for any trips, if I am so fortunate as to make the team again, I will go on every possible trip to represent the school, you say no trips of any kind well that is a poor specimen of loyalty to the school.

You may leave the sarcasm out of your letters or I will use some of my own also some letters that might to interesting.

Also I want to have some photo's taken at the photographer as all the fellows are doing it and I never have had any so you may send me $8 to get a dozen. Don't forget! Which do you want taken in citizens or uniform?

Well don't forget to send the things I asked for $3.00 for a pair of new puttees everyone has to have two pair.

Yours,
Mr. Ted Bigelow

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Rest In Peace

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