May 16. 1875.
My dear Sister
Last night I dreamed that I was at home again. And as I entered
the sitting room with its usual homelike look, I said "My school-days are
really over"- How I long for that time to come - Next winter there is
some prospect of our having a visit from one of my Class-mates, a former
room-mate, Alice Graham (Alice L. Graham, '75, is the niece of the
Louisiana Governor's wife, Mrs. Kellogg, and she anticipates spending a
part of the winter with her aunt in New Orleans. If so, she will come over
and see me for a little while. I don't know how you will like her, she Is
very bright but rather peculiar in some ways - Bird Bell (Margaret W.
Bell, '75, may come and see me, but she spends the next year, as I have
told you, with a party in Europe- I have also hopes that Minnie Clement
(Minerva A. Clement, '75, who is not very strong may comc in the dim
future- She is a very nice, quiet home girl taking an interest In everything-
She wants to study medicine, and as she is a great friend of Dr. Webster
(Helen Worthing Webster, M.D., and generally has one or two sick girls
under her charge, we call her Doctor- for some years she not particularly
noticed by our class, but as she had taken a fancy to Bird Bell and myself
we were kind to her, and now she Is always very kind to us —
Now really I am not very anxious to go to the Trinity Commence-
ment, but scarcely see any way out of it, as Josie wants me to go. Cant
you all manage to need to remain here some days after Commencement -
I have engaged rooms for you at the Morgan House, but shall try and find
some at a private boarding house as that will be pleasanter than the hotel,
and I think you would like It better- If we go right on to Conn. I have no
earthly reason for not going down to Hartford, and it would seem as If
I should invite some of the Buffington family to my Grandmother's after
their kindness to me, and I would not for the world think of inconvenienc-
ing Auntie by so doing.
Saw Mr. M. Vassar a day or so since, when he read me letters
from John Guy, and gave me an Austin paper - John G. spoke of his visit
at our house of my father as a "sterling" man &c- My father "called for
him about four p.m., drove home, dinner at six, remained all night, &c."
"Tell Julie" when I have never spoken to the man, and he does not know
me by sight, "that her parents" &c - He has written letters to be pub-
lished in a Po'keepsie paper and they are to be sent to the various Texas
towns where h&ohhs been. Suppose I shall be overpowered by John G-
when he returns in a few weeks -
Don't know what to do about my dress. You seem pleased with the
sample, and say get it, while Mamma does the reverse. I am no infant to
make my appearance in a white swiss- While appropriate for a small
boarding school, white swiss does not seem to me the very thing for a
College which is graduating women, for we are most of us of age, and look
fully so -
My pictures, at the same time with some others, arrived yesterday.
They are considered here very good Indeed. I send one that you may judge
for yourself.
Hope to hear from home in the morning -
Affec -
J-
Julia M. Pease, '75