Letter from Betty to Bess Wallace

Sept.14,1917. Ames,Iowa. Dear Bess: - Will you accept a typewritten letter? I do not know when I will get time to write otherwise. It is time for me to go home but I have to hang round here awhile longer to see that the old library is running right. I certainly am a busy lady these days. Miss Noll our assistant in charge of circulation resigned and Miss Dixon had to drop everything and go away on account of hay fever so I have been running the whole shebang ever since with e.n almost entirely new staff and it has been no joke. I think I will be very glad and contented to be merely the cataloger once more. It is the very busiest time of the whole year, with an almost new set of students and many new faculty and it complicates things to have so many new ones on the staff. I think that we have some very lovely girls though. One of them is from Pittsburgh, one from Madison and one from Detroit but we all seem to have much in common already. In some ways it is going to be an easier year I think for I imagine this staff will pull together well. Miss Dixon told me she was certainly glad to have me remain and the dean said as much and I think they will appreciate my staying and give me a raise next year. I am to have another assistant too. TRUMAN NARA Robina and I gave a tea for Miss Noll the Sunday afternoon before she left. We got quite ambitions and asked