Vassar College, N.Y.
Friday, Sept. 18th/68.
Dear Momma and Allie,
I wrote to Aunty 
yesterday telling all about our 
trip, so I won't say anything 
more about that as I suppose that 
you will see it.
We are all settled 
now. I am so sorry that Sallie 
Camp couldn't room with me, 
but still she is in the same par-
lor. Libble and Kittie room together. 
I guess that they are going to like 
the school very much, though 
of course "they were not going to 
like it at all", at first. I like 
Eva Gross ever so much, and 
her father too, I recognized her 
in the depot at Albany, or at least
was pretty sure that it was she and 
Mr. Hubbard went up and spoke 
to her father, and then introduced 
her to me. So we have gotten 
pretty well acquainted by this 
time. I think she is lovely. She 
and Kittie Reber seem to have 
taken quite a fancy to each
other.
Isn't it splendid that I have 
had my room changed to such 
a nice corridor? I am perfectly 
delighted about It. I wrote a long 
letter to Jessie yesterday, but have 
not received any from her yet.
I suppose that Aunty told 
you that we met Arthur at 
Cleveland. He took quite a fancy 
to Sallie Camp. He sat with her 
all the way to Poughkeepsie. 
We met Henry Hudson at Northeast, 
near Erie on the way to Sing Sing, 
so you can imagine that we had 
a jolly party. Henry Hudson is
just as funny as he can be. When 
we got to Poughkeepsie, Henry and
Charlie went on down to Sing sing 
but Arthur got off and stayed all 
night in Poughkeepsie. (The girls 
stayed there too.) but I came out 
in a hack all stark alone. I was 
frightened half to death, however 
I got out here all safe.
How did you get along 
at housekeeping at Gibraltar, I forgot 
all about that, did Aunty let you 
go? and did you see Mr. Mingens? 
or Mr. Muggins?
The Marriam girls are 
not coming back until Christmas, 
if they do at all. I am so sorry 
there are not half of the old girls 
back, and the school is just 
crowded. They say that there will 
be over four hundred girls here, 
this year. O! do you remember of 
my speaking of Hattie Downs? 
Her autograph was the one that
was shaded so funnily in my
album. Well what do you think 
Eva Gross came up to me and 
said Sallle do you know a Miss 
Hattie Downs here! I said, yes, I 
guess I do, why. Why she says 
she is engaged to a cousin of mine. 
Wasn't that funny? but it is too bad 
for she left last year and is not 
coming back. She is perfectly lovely.
I wonder what cousin it is, and 
where he lives. I am going to ask 
Eva. O Arthur told me that 
there was a Miss Liggie Good here from 
Springfield, a friend of his, but I 
don't know where she rooms. I 
have the greatest quantity of new 
girls to find. 
I was so sorry that I 
did not see Mr. and Mrs. Hubbard. 
They brought Libbie out while we 
were in the chapel listening to 
a lecture, and had to go right 
back. I was so sorry. Mr. Hubbard
sent us out a great
big paper of candy a piece, so we are going to write him a letter of
thanks. It was real good in him. He sent it out to console us he said.
Well I believe this is all I have to say for the present. Now be sure to
write soon to your loving daughter and sister
Sallie
I directed my letter to Allie because I can write it more easily than I
can Mrs. M. £.
Sallie Stem