Vassar College.
March 7, 5.
Dear Carrie*
I sigh every time I receive a letter from you to find what nice
letters and interesting ones you can write me, while mine to you are such
stupids. You ought to study Rhetoric, principally for the sake of punctua-
be
tion, and then write a little plainer and your Utters wouldA"perfect.»* I
must praise your last one, there was not a word hut what X could read.
Have you tried the "second string to your bow," shooting? It
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would have been the only one I should have attempted. "No studying law
for me." h a year, for as you are so apt a student no longer time will
be required for understanding law thoroughly, 1 shall hear of Miss Carrie
Pease practising law at the bar, and when I return home I hope to greet
you as my sister, "Judge" Pease.
Mamma wrrte that George G. had invited you to attend a ball, to
be given the 22nd of last month. Did you go, and if so how did you enjoy
yourself? Were you not aware, that Ash Wednesday and Washlngtons
birthday were one and the same day? We have such nice little meetings
now. Miss Garland, the Secretary, reads the Episcopal service and we
all sing* An organ has been engaged from Poughkeepsle aad when some-
one plays on that, we get along very nicely, for none of the chants in the
evening service are difficult* Miss Garland told her Bible class that next
Sunday would be her last here. I am sorry that she is going away just now,
but presume some scholar will take her place In our meetings. Are you
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•till studying Philosophy, or have you given that up lor your mora
interesting one? Wo have finished reading Caesar lor this year and have
now commenced Cicero, I like it very much, hut am surprised to lind
that X do not remember anything at all about It. From new until the lirst
ol April, we have to read lour orations; Just twice as much ss you sccom-
piished in a yearl
I received a letter Irom Aunt Maria Robinson last week. She has
heard irom Aunt Carrie again. Aunt writes, "Grandma has much improved
in mind since leaving here, realises new that she Is In Jamesville, and
(Aunt Maria)
wants me to come next spring and visit her, snd wanted Aunt Carrie to buy
a wedding present Irom her, Grandma, to Carrie Raynor, who has Just been
married." I take that from Aunt's letter, because she says that as you
Appear disposed to drop the correspondence she will let you do so. Yester-
day the snow was determined to fall, and the sua was determined to prevent
it. 1 don't know which would have conquered II the time had not come lor
the sun to go to bed. That settled the matter and the snow loll as long as
it chose covering the ground beautifully. However, the sua rose early and
melted in a lew hours last nights labor. I meant to tell you ol the lecture
by Curtis, upon Sir Philip Sydney and the one delivered since by ProI.
Bacchus (Backus F of Vassar College, about the literature ol the nineteenth
century. Suffice it to say that both were good. Curtis is the most fascinat-
ing speaker I ever heard. I am expecting the ten oclock bell every moment,

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excuse
so can not wfltt any mora* Please writing—
Your loving
Sister Julie,
There is the bell now!
(Julia M. Pease* '75,