(November 20, 1870,
Saturday Evening.
You are a dear good girl Carrie, to write so often to your sister,
and X thank you for it, and only wish Mamma would do as well. I have not
heard from her for over a week but suppose she is hard at work for one
and so 1 ought not to complain. If you would write a little plainer I could
read your letters better. At first I had no difficulty at all in doing so, but
the last ones I have had to study over and even then could not exactly
understand what you wrote. For instance in one of your letters you say
that Mamma has given you something which you like very much, but what
it is I can not make out.
Would you really like to have me write you what words you spell
wrong ? I have not noticed maay, in you last I think there were only two,
"tear" which you spelled "tair," and "ripped" which you had written wrong.
Last night Benson Lawson (Lossing? , delivered a lecture before
the college. His subject was "chivalry, the past and present." He told us
the origin of the name "sirloin" as applied to certain pieces of meat, and
also that of the "Order of the Garter," and many other interesting little
things. 1 presume you read the aewspapers, and know something of what
is going on, but I never do. There are always aewspapers in the library,
and sometimes I think I will read them but do not get about it. And so X
had not heard until yesterday when I received a letter from Mary Rawson
telling me of it, of the railroad accident at Grand Junction; you will remem-
ber the place, one of the many times we had to change cars on our way North.
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There were a good many of our Texan friends on the train, but none of
them were injured although four persons were killed and as many wounded.
Mr. & Mrs. Morrill, Mrs. Rives and her daughters, Mr. and Mrs. West and
Mollie Duval, and Mr. Raymond and his two nieces were In the party. What
a fright they must have had. Yesterday afternoon X was very much surprised
as well as delighted, when the messenger girl came up and told me that Mr.
and Mrs. Epperson were in the parlor and would like to see me. They have
sons attending school in Poughkeepsie, and had come up to visit them, and
I think it was very kind in them to ride out and see me when I had known
so little of them. Eugenie has been attending school at the Packer Institute.
(I forgot to say that she was with them) but she does not like it very well,
says she cannot get acquainted with the girls, and I do not wonder, for if I
were in her place I would net ask any one to call upon me at Mrs...
(Remainder of the letter Is lost,
(Julia M. Pease, '75,