Vassar College.
Nor. 13* 1870.
My dear Fapa,
la your letters you have said nothiag about the "testimonials"
which X wrote you about. We are required to have them, aad although
they have not asked me for them yet, they will expect them to be givea
soon. As X have never attended aay school at home you will have to get
them as to my character from the mlaister, aad I presume the reasoa
you have aot seat them is because Mr. Rogers has aot yet returned from
his trip North. When he comes home will you get him to write some thing
of the sort and send to me and my mind will be much eased upoa that subject.
Sometimes X think X would like to go through the course here, and
then again I do not care to, but the last two years before graduating are
not very hard, and a girl who has gone through the Sophomore class here
is about as far advaaced as oae who has graduated at aaother school. I
presume at almost aay boarding school X could graduate ia one year, and
now I should have to come four years besides this. Indeed there are
several young ladies in my classes who have graduated at High Schools
before coming here.
I am so glad that you will give Carrie the watch, for X know the
present will make her perfectly happy. As for myself, I have nothing to
ask for as my expenses at school will be very great, aad will be enough
for one year. I thank you for asking me what I would like, but I do not care
for any present now. Do you ever remember a Gov. Rollins of Missouri?
Nov. 13, 1870 -2
He has a daughter at school here whom I know quite well, she is a very
nice girl, but she would not be very sensible in your eyes, because she
has a very small waist which shows that she either has or does now lace
very tightly, I have a roommate Annie Johnson from Red Wing, Minn.
She is a very smart girl and we get along very nicely together. Our
parlor is very small and not particularly pleasant, but only we two have
the parlor and bedroom together, which makes it very quiet and nice lor
studying. There are only two or three parlors In the building which are
not occupied by lour or live young ladies aad we think ourselves very
lortunate in having this one, although it is in the back part oI the college
and the window is up quite high. Does Mr. Rogers spsll his name with a
"d" ? X am alraid I have written it wrong. Carrie wrote me that you had
had blinds put on the windows on our house upstsirs. It will be a great
improvement making our rooms so much cooler. With very much love
your
daughter Julie M.P.
(Julia M. Pease, '75,