Vassar College
Sunday
pec. 17, 1871,
My dear Fapa,
W e are having a perfect siege of cold weather. All last winter
thers was not snore than a week of such intense cold as this. We feel it
most at night. The room grows so cold that we scarcely know whether
we are indoors or out and several nights I have fled from my bed to the
register for protection from the cold, for the bed is as cold as the room.
I wish I was at home to make with you to make an inroad upon the
pantry with intention t? , to the pies. I thinl; v/c would come out
victorious and laden with mince pies.
I find this letter begun in my desk and although 1 ought not to send
it now will do so, for it will save you the beginning of another. The weather
has moderated and we do not now have any difficulty in keeping warm. The
ground is covered with snow.
I wish you could know Dr. Avery. She is so very nice* She Is very
strong minded and is disliked by many of the girls because she so abomi-
nates shams. She is very cross sometimes when the girls go to her, but
it is because they do not go to her until they are very sick and then she
can do nothing but send them home. I have always found her very pleasant,
but then I have never been sick here*
Col. Smith seems a great friend of hers and X wish you would ask
him of her when he is at our house, for X admire her so much.
Dec. 17, 1871 -
Among tho no tables here is Maggie Stanton, a daughter of £. C.
Stanton* She looks a good like the pictures I have seen oI her mother
and appears like a very nice girl. There is a grandchild of Garrett
Davis1 here, from Kentucky. Miss McGowan. Of course you know all
about him but I can only remember hearing the name.
You must forgive me for not sending you my essay, but it is such
a poor production that I cannot send it. They are all hard to write but 1
have never dreaded any so much as the first.
W hea are you all going to have your pictures taken? I want thorn
so much. It seems hard for me whoa all the other girls are going homo
this Christmas that I cannot, for going to Binghamton, although very pleas
ant, is not like going homo.
Thursday morning at ten I laavo. Quito a number are going at the
same time to Binghamton and it will bo somewhat gay.
W ith love to everybody and heaps of kisses for yourself your
loving Julia.
(Julia M. Pease, '75)