assar College N.Y.
Oct. 4th, 1868.
My Dear Sister,
What a grand 
lonely time you must 
have had, keeping house 
at Gibraltar three days, 
all alone! why I couldn't 
have been hired to and 
never saw "Dickey" either, now, 
that was too bad, no wonder 
you were lonely! 
It was too bed that 
Will Moorhead, John Butler fee, fee, 
unconsciously deprived you of 
the pleasure of their company. 
It was a great deprivation, and 
you have my most sincere sym-
pathy in your affliction!
I thought that I had told you 
all about our rooms. It must 
have been Aunty.
Well, Miss Lyman 
would not let Sallie Camp 
room with me, because Sallie 
Ripley had drawn the other half 
of my room, and of course she 
could not move her, but be-
tween you and I, I don't know 
but it is just as well as it is,
for Sallie Ripley is a lovely 
girl. Sallie Camp rooms with 
a Miss Gamsey from Saratoga, 
and Miss Clark from Sronton, 
Ohio, both very good-hearted 
girls, and all that sort of thing, 
but not very nice. Libbie Hub-
bard and Kittle Reben room 
up on the fourth floor to-
gether, just because Miss 
Lyman put them together.
Eva Gross rooms on the same 
floor with me, only four or 
five doors off. She has a dou-
ble room all to herself, and only 
one other person, a senior, in 
the parlor, isn't that funny?
I don't really know any-
thing about the girls examina-
tions, only that Lib. and Kittle 
both passed better than Sallie 
did, and I didn't see Eva's 
paper at all.
Hattle Downs isn't 
engaged to a cousin of Eva's  at 
all. he is only a friend; isn't 
that ridiculous, I thought 
that she said a cousin. Hattle
is from Birmingham, Conn.
I didn't see very much 
of Arthur, after we left Buffalo, 
but since you ask me, I don't 
like him much, I don't know
why, but I think that he is just 
a little mite, or rather 
a good big mite conceited. I sup-
pose that that is a sufficient rea-
son for my unaccountable	
He did not say that he got off 
just to be with the girls, but 
he said that he was going to wait 
in Po'keepsle for the next train 
and stop at a friend of his, (a 
college friend) "He would not 
get in there until eleven o'clock
and then had a several miles 
to ride before he got there, and as 
he was not very well acquainted 
with them, he didn't exactly 
know whether he ought to go 
there so late or not"! rather 
doubtful, don't you think so?
I forgot to say that the reason 
that Eva took such a fancy 
to Kittle at first was because
she had heard so much about 
her through Orvie, but I guess 
that she does not think any 
more of her now, than she does 
of the rest of us. She is in our 
room quite a good deal, I like 
her very much. 
I have heard of that 
Miss Kittle Tilden and heard 
too that she was perfectly lovely, 
who does she visit in Sandusky.
Bessie Storer rooms right 
next door to me. I haven't seen 
a great deal of her yet. I was 
up to her room the other night 
for a little while. She has had 
a lame foot since she came 
back, a good deal.
Do you believe, the other
night Sallie Ripley was going to bed 
early, and she went to get her 
night-gown out from under 
the pillow, and out jumped 
a little mouse! She was so 
frightened and we both screamed
around there a little while, 
when Sallie declared that she 
wouldn't go to bed before I did.
So I went to get my night-
gown, and feeling something
cold, I dropped it, when 
out popped another little 
mouse! Well do you know we 
were so frightened, we were afraid 
to go to bed for fear little mice 
would jump out, but we went 
and got a trap, and set it and 
after peeping under all the 
covers, and feeling every little 
elevation, we thought that 
we would venture to get in. 
In the night I heard a sort of 
a little distressed noise, thinks 
I, ha, ha, Mr. mousey, and sure 
enough the next morning there 
he was in flesh, and blood!
But last night was 
the most absurd, after the 
light was out, I took it into 
my head that I wanted to 
let that beautiful moon-
light into the room and as 
I did not know that there 
was a pitcher full of water 
sitting on the window, why 
of course when I opened the 
blind there was a slight 
crash! Sallie Ripley said 
she heard a smash and 
the next thing she knew, she 
saw me come rushing over 
to the bed with a chair-full 
of clothes, she did not know 
whether I was going to put them 
on the bed or not, but it looked 
very much like it, but really 
it was horrid, for there we had 
to get up and light the gas, 
wipe all that water up, pick 
up the pieces of broken pitcher, 
fee, fee, and I can tell you we 
had a nice time rushing around 
in the water with our bare feet. 
The next morning the girls below 
us, wanted to know what in 
the world all that noise 
was in our room. (Answer to letter 2nd)
O! The other day while 
we were sitting by the window 
studying, there was four young 
ladies from "the city" rode around 
the college, on horse-back, just 
like the wind, with those horrid 
old stove-pipe riding hats. you 
don't know how funny they
looked with their hair sticking 
right out straight behind, and 
those great tall hats on top 
of them; it was perfectly ridicu-
lous.
There is a young lady here 
from New York, Miss Beech or 
Beach, who has a horse of her 
own here and she rides whenever 
she pleases. Isn't that elegant? Her 
father is immensely wealthy, and 
owns a summer residence up here 
near Po'keepsie. This Miss Beech has 
her room furnished with green 
furniture, like that over 
at Gibraltar you know, at least 
I have heard so though I haven't 
seen it. She is the fairest person 
I ever saw almost, and her hair
is almost perfectly white, which 
she wears frizzed over the top 
of her head in the funniest 
manner, but she is perfectly 
lovely, well I don't know what 
I am telling you anything about 
her for, for I don't know her, but 
I will tell you about a young 
lady, from Brooklyn, whom I 
do know. I don't know whether
you know it or not, but one 
day before I came here at all, 
I was reading over the catalogue, 
and came to the name Blanche 
Wilder! I exclaimed to Jessie, 
O! isn't that a lovely name, she 
must be perfectly lovely if she 
only corresponds to her name, 
and of course I was going to get
acquainted with her right away, 
well when I came here last 
year, I found that she was
not here, and was dreadfully 
disappointed, well, what do you 
think she is here this year! and 
she rooms just two doors from 
me, and sits next to me at table! 
Isn't that splendid? She is perfectly 
lovely, but she doesn't look a 
bit as I expected she would. She 
is dark rather than light, that 
is she has dark brown hair & black 
eyes, but she is rather fair. She 
is so sweet, but isn't it funny? 
I had forgotten all about it, 
until I heard some one say 
that Blanche Wilder was back 
this year.
There was something 
else that I wanted to write, 
but I can't for the life of me 
think what it was. I suppose 
that I will remember as soon 
as I seal my letter up. Now
Allie, this letter is as long as
both of yours, for I have writ-
ten it so close. I have marked 
where the answer to the second
letter comes in, so you must 
answer this real soon, for I 
shall expect your letter. 
Good-night, for I have to go and put my clothes out.
Your loving sister,
Sallle.