Vassar College,
May 13, 1873.
My dear Papa,
This afternoon I have seen Miss Morse, the President's factotum,
who says that I have permission to leave College as soon in June as I
choose, It would he perfectly splendid If I could go from here on Friday
the 29th May, for reviews will begin on the next Monday and those two
days would be of no account. The President said that he would prefer to
have me write write all about It so you need not expect any letter from him. Do you think that I shall have any company from New York, or shall I come alone? H I do the latter, I should like to leave here on an evening train and go by way of Albany and Columbus, as then I would have no
change in a large city until I reach Louisville. Please let me know If you
hear of any Company. If Aunt Maria should only be In N.Y. earlier than
the sixth matters would be all right. But now I should hate to lose a whole
week, for I am all Impatience to be home.
 Today your letters were received. It Is such a pleasure to hear
that Mamma Is well enough to walk about some with the aid af a crutch.
She has had such a siege of It. Does Mrs. Gillette expect to stay all summer in Austin/ is not her health too poor to remain In so hot a climate?
It must seem like old times to have her there. All our important College
people have gone on to Boston to attend same sort of an educational
affair. I dan't read the papers often enough to know really what Is going
on, so you will find me a great Ignoramus whom you will have to teach
all summer about the most common affairs of life. My head Is so full
of going home that I find I am not calm enough to write a decent letter.
And then, too, I must go and see my teachers and learn if I must be examined before going or upon returning. It Is to be hoped not the latter as everything will have flown out of my head before fall.
 I could even worship those "grasshoppers" of which you all so
dreadfully complain for they come from Texas, and I am so anxious to
be there.
Your loving but scarcely sane
daughter
Julie