Nov. 3. 1870.
My dear sister,
You write as if you were homesick, but Carrie you ought not to be
for saying so
when you are going home so soon. Don't blame meAfor I feel as though no
be
one had a right toAhomesick but myself who am all alone, I expect there
are very few girls here but t? , knew someone when they came and the
only person I had ever seen before was Miss Hamlin, and as I am not on
her corridor I see very little of her. I wish every day that you had come
with me, for I know that you would like it here very much, and I hope
another year you will decide to comenas "special." Even now you might
enter and take French, Music and any other study you choose or not as
you please. You ask what I mean by Double Latin. It Is learning and recit-
ing two lessons a day and is the same as two studies. The class is for the
benefit of those who are deficient in that study and wish to be prepared for
the Freshman class in one instead of two years for we really do two years
work in one. You may know that we take any lessons when we have beea
through the "Latin Lessons" which we used to study In the six weeks we
have been here and there is a great deal more In this one than In our old
one. Monday Is our first lesson in Caesar and we must translate 3 books
before Christmas.
I received a letter today from Papa In which he told me of the
changes he had been making in the house—rather of the addition he had
been putting on. It Is very nice Indeed, a bathroom with a fixed tub opens
from Mamma's room, there is also a sink or washstand with a pump in it
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which brings water from the small cistern. ThenU making a large stove
room and closet. Had you heard that Mr. Messina t? , has bought Judge
Merrill's place and expects a sister and her family to come out and live
with him. I wonder where tha Merrills will live, as the Judge he has
business in Galveston presume they will spend their winters there and
summers North.
It will be a good thing for you to have Aunt Maria act towards you
as if you were no longer a child, for it will give you more self possession
and courage. But I should think you would be almost afraid to travel from
Buffalo to Binghamton by yourself as you will have to do after leaving
Aunt Carrie there, more because you are nearsighted than any other reason.
But you can put on your glasses aad travel on as fearlessly as we this
summer when we went to Boston alone, and perhaps have someone elss
put under you charge for you know, I wear my glasses nearly all the time.
I found that I could not get along at all in my classes without them, for I
could not tell when the teachers were speaking to me unless they called
my name, and when I was studying Algebra could not sea the examples
which were put on the blackboard. I shall try and take Double French
next term if the Pre*, will let me for they begin "Noel aad Chopssl's"
grammar which I am very anxious to study, and they accomplish as much
from Feb, to June as the Freshman class in a whole year. You do not say
whether Grandma is going West with Aunt Carrie or aat, and only that she
is better. 1 do not know now if she can recognise anyone. On my own
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account I wish to know, as well as to tell Carrie Norton so that she may
illness
write home about it, for Mrs. Whitman has heard of OrandmaAonly from
Carrie. W ill not Aunt Maria write and tell her all about it? It seems as
though I had more to say but cannot think of it at present. Did you find
my chemise stud in cleaning up the little room we slept in? I haven't
it with me and Msmma says it is not with her things. X am afraid it is
lost and it is the nice one Mamma gave me about a year ago. I shall be
so sorry if it's not found. Will you not come and see me with Mamma
before you go home? You might meet Mamma either at Albany or New
York and come here for a day at least. I wish you would for I shall feel
badly to have you go home without seeing you again. Please write as
often as you can to your "laving, loving, loving,"
sister Julie.
(Julia M. Pease, '75,
P.S. I forgot to tell you, and so have to write a postscript which I dislike
to do that Mr. Allen called last Saturday and Miss Lyman gave permission
for him to take me out riding with a teacher. I chose to take Miss Hamlin
and we had a very pleasant ride. This letter you will see by the date was
commenced some time ago and has been waiting until today to be finished.
Thank Aunt Maria far kindness in letting me invite some one to spend
Christmas with ma at her pleasant home, but there Is no one I care par-
ticularly about asking, as I have na very graat friend here, and most of the
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girls X know are going either home or to New York. Carrie Norton is
going home Christmas. Goodbye my precious sister.
Again I must add a lew lines and I presume you will think I am never
going to end. But as you are always making collections, would you not
like to get old "postage stamps'1 ? For a million the Government will pay
you three hundred dollars. I have written to Papa asking him to save his
and I will keep mine lor you 11 you wish. I hope this morning to get a
letter from you but am afraid I will be disappointed. My lave to Aunt
Maria and tell her I am looking forward with great pleasure to spending
Christmas with her and it is only a little over six weeks before the time.
Only think you will be home then, but you must think of me as wishing
heartily to be with you all. Next time I write I had better commence on
another heet of paper than cross so much, for I am afraid you can scarcely
read this scrawl. Julie
Julia M. Pease, '75