Vassar College.
Feb. 24, 1871.
Dear Carrie,
Your letter with the pattern of the transparency came just in the
right time. It came Wed. morning and that day was a holiday, so that I
found time enough in the afternoon to make one. I was only about two
hours making it, don't you think that was quick to do it? My room begins
to look a little more cheerful than it did when you were here. X have put
those two little bird pictures which mamma brought sue, into the straw
frames the JF res. and Miss Lyman were in and the two latter I have had
framed in a very simple style called "passe-partout." My two favorites,
Prof. Van Ingen ,van Ingen, and Miss Kapp, are in a white thread frame.
X have made of perforated board a letter bag which is a very pretty orna-
ment but is not a particle of use. The bracket in the corner with the
wolict set finishes the ornamental part of my furniture. X want now a
larger picture and a colored motto and I hope to get them during the April
vacation. X should feel very well contented if you were only here to share
my parlor and bedroom. We might have such nice times together in my
doay little rooms. I would not give them up for any others except a single
room on the second corridor and there is no chance of my getting such a
room. George W. Curtis has arrived. He came into the Dining room after
we were all seated, and if he is at all bashful he must have been somewhat
discomposed by the glances given him. There was indeed a great deal of
peeping around to see him, for he is very handsome and rather young, and
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quite a sight to us, shut out from all intercourse with the other sex.—
In mentioning the little articles X have in my parlor, I forgot a little
frame made of cardboard, In which I have put Papa's photograph. These
frames are all the rage here now and as they are very little work and
quite pretty I have made several. Until about two weeks before the
examinations, I had not done one bit of fancy work, but while our classes
were being arranged I found some spare time and made some little things,
a cover and cushion for my bureau fee. Now 1 find very little time, and if
I can only get into the freshman trench class, will have still less. It
seems as though some of my letters could not have reached you. I wrote
you soon after my return great loag letters telllag of all I had doae while
at Bingham ton. You ask of what sewing I did while there and what I had
done to my teeth, and I have writtea you all about it loag ago. I only had
one tooth filled, but that was a very bad one. There is now nothing of it
but the shell, the inner part is of gold. I told you that my blue silk had
been made over very prettily and my old brewn altered some, for a school
dress, and the calico made and this is all the sewing that I accomplished.
I wrote mamma at that time about what I wanted to do about spring clothes
but she had never written me anything about them. Please answer my
question, for I do not ask any but those I want answered, and do not think
that because it is so long after my letters are written that I have forgotten
them. Perhaps the reason of your not knowing what I write is that you
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cannot read my writing, and not that my letters have not reached you.
My handwriting is ruined by scribbling so much, but I shall try and write
plainer in future. Do not fail to tell me if you cannot read my scrawling.
I am expecting a french letter from you every day. Thanks for the green-
not
backs. I willAweary you by writing any more at present, it must be a
tedious job, trying to decipher this crossed page, but I am very econom-
ical with my postage stamps and more than two sheets of this thick paper
needs two stamps. When this paper is gone I intend to get french for it
is much cheaper in the end. I have my home letters for this week and
cannot expect another until next W ed. I wish that you could find time to
write oftener. With much love to all, Julie
lJulia M. Pease, '75,