Vassar College,
Oct. 1, 1871.
Carls s 1ms,
I don't know what X hare written to you aad so you will, I dare
say, be faro red with maay ol the same items. My mast latimate friend,
Bessie Hogg, has aot come bach, bat another good Iriend oI mine, Faaaie
Buffing ton is here aad we are together much of the time. I wish you could
see her, she has splendid black hair aad eyes and is rery pretty for a dark
person, yoa know I admire fair people. My parlor-mates are Ella MUligaa
aad Miaggie Bell, both splendid girls and la my class, Miss Arnold, wham
X do not know rery well as she has only been In the room a lew days but
Had her lorely so lar, aad Miss Graham, my roommate* She is the most
uninteresting bat Is rery kind hearted. She Is a youagest child and has
beea much petted which makes her appear rather childish, bat X think ahe
was very brare to come all the way from Chicago with only a young lady
as company to Po'keepsie, coming out to the College lor the iirst time
entirely alone. I hare not yet been admitted to the Freshman class, although
I have all Freshmaa studies and sit with the Freshmaa la Chapel. X presume
the Presldeat has iorgottea to read off my name bat as I hare written to
him he will soon do so. X am studying French, I*at!a and Algebra and hare
begun taking drawing lessoas. We are reading the prelace to Livy and it
is the hardest Latla I ever saw. We are groaning terribly over It. When we
get Into the history It will be rery interesting.
Oct. 1, 1871 - 2
Wednesday evening.
This has net been touched ley several days but I leel that tonight
it must be linlshed aad seat. JLast night my name was announced in Chapel
as belonging to the Freshmaa class, you may imagine that I was very glad*
Have you ever met a Gen. £akln in Austin? Miss Milligan knows such a
gentleman who has beea in Texas and says that he has beea at the house
ol Judge I ease ia Austin and is acquainted with Miss Pease* She thought
he meant me but I do not remember ever meeting such a person aad so it
must be you* Now * * * don't lorget to tell me if you knew him* There is
a young lady Irom Galveston, Texas here. Her name, Cliffie Loverin. I
have only met her once* She says that her mother knows Papa, aad remem-
bers us whea we were little ones* Please ask him about them. What a lot
ol sewing you have done, I don't see what you caa have beea making. Oh,
z must tell you the latest style ol arraagiag the hair is to make a French
twist and place the rest of the hair around either ia braids or a simple coll.
Almost the same as they ware it whea we were in Hartford* With my switch
you can arraage yours nicely. Z have aa exemple in Algebra to do aad must
stop but will write agaia as soon as Z caa find time.
(Julia M. Pease, '75)