Vassar Collage
March 22, 1871.
My own dear Mamma,
You will feel discouraged, I know, when you see this immense
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sheet of paper, hut I think that I am justified la using it hy the amount 1
have to write you. Your long letter has kept me In good spirits ever
since the receipt of it, which is nearly a week, aad I fear I shall have
to live upon the contents of it much longer, unless my home letters come
more regularly than they have for the last few weeks. Just as X had
written you that your letters came In the right time they began to come
very seldom. However, I think it is because you do not write very often.
not
You say that you fear that 1 can^lways find time to read your letters,
but you are mistaken. It takes much less time to read than to write a
letter and so If that Is your only reason for not usually sending me long
ones you will find that removed by my telling you that I can find time to
read a letter even though it be twenty pages Instead of half that number.
I received a letter from Mrs. Hayes a few days ago. All were
well, I mention the receipt of her letter specially because she said that
Mrs. Gillette wrote her that Miss Augusta Palm is to ^be, married and I
to know
am very anxious-for yau^te tell who the happy gentleman is. I shall be
very glad to have you make me a few underclothes, another year I shall
need them. I do not want them perfectly plain, any trimming will be suit*
able except ruffling. Here we can get very nice edgings or trimmings
something like ruffling, which look pretty, aad are easily washed aad
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ironed. If you prefer, you can send them to mo plain and X can put some*
thing on. X am afraid that you can not make tha drawers to fit ma without
a pattern and as soon as X can cut one will send it.
Gough lectures in Poughkeepsie this week. Tho President will
not let any of us go in to hear him, hut has asked him to come here and
lecture. We do not yet know whether he will accept tha invitation.
Although X have heard him several times, I could listen to him as many
again and still ask for more. X think X have never written you of a lecture
delivered hare by Dr. Robinson from Rochester. Tho gentleman had a
very fine ffcce and is said to bo a deep thinker. Ho certainly appeared
to be, for his lecture was much to deep for mo to foal much Interest In
it. He touched upon many subjects but only for a moment, leaving us to
finish them. Of course X did not, for when I go to hoar a lecture I want
something that does not require much thinking. Latin uses up about all
the brains I possess. Prof. Van Ingen the drawing teacher has commenced
a course of lectures upon the "history of Art." To attend his lectures, I
have to recite one lesson in the evening privately with two others. This
only comes once a week but on my busiest evening, Monday, when there
is corridor meeting and I have a bath.
I wrote you the last news which I have heard of Grandma. I am
owing Aunt Maria a letter and will answer it as soon as X can In order to
hear from Grandma again. In the last letter I havs hsd from Aunt she said
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that Carrie was owing her a letter, aad she told me at Christmas that
Papa had never answered her letter. H they will net write of course they
cannot expect to hear from her. I mast close now aad learn my Rhetoric.
We have more than fifty words to leek out in the Dictionary and find their
meaning and derivation^ ^iqfi$ and it will take some time to da it.
With very much love
Julie.
{Julia M. Pease, '75,