Vassar Collage
Jan. IS. 1871.
My dear sister,
I think you might write to me oftener, if you were her and I at
at least
home I should write to you three times a day and you do not write even
once a week Your last was a great treat and it was a nice long letter.
I don't see how Willie Rogers could ever become handsome. Why, I
should as soon think of my growing kaadsoxael U your trunk had not
come what did you wear to the hop at Gov. Hamilton's? You speak of
John Ho ran. I have always had such a desire to see him.
As near as I can make out from your writing, you say that he is
as handsome as a "small" man can be. I supposed from Mrs. Grumble's
account of him that he was very tall Indeed. I hope soon to get a letter
from you telling of the Hew Years calls. Waa the number of them very
great? So many of our callers last year were army people that I should
not think you could expect very many. Miss Beach, who 1 have told you
about, lives in New York aad said that more calls were made there this
year than last. They received sixty more than last New Year's day.
What a number they must have had to feed I But they only gave them cake
and coffee.
One of my classmates has had to go home. She lives In Ohio*and
was staying here during the holidays, when one night the Pres. received a
telegram saying that her mother was not expected to live, but not to tell
Nannie how sick she was, only have her come home. She started faam
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the college la the night bat reached home too late—her mother was dead)
Isn't it terrible. OhJ Carrie be very careful of Mamma and Papa, for we
do not know how long they may be spared to us, aad what would we do
without them! It makes me feel so badly when I think that if they or you
should Le sick I am so far away* I cannot tell whether 1 ought to remain
here another year or not. I would like to very well, but thea I think that
Mamma aad Papa are growing old and we both ought to remain with them.
Tell me ought I to remain or go home?
But this is a mighty blue letter—perhaps because it is written
with an empty stomach, for I did not get up to breakfast this morning. I
must tell you the latest name that has been given to Miss Rollins, "the
comedy in two parts." I suppose you will see the wit U you remember any-
thing about her. The "tower of Babel" has at last...
(Remainder of letter is lost)
Julla M. Pease, '75