Vassar, June 7, 1874.
Dear Mother,
Kate Maltby has gone 
to town and left me her 
room, so I will improve it 
by writing you now. It is 
very warm. Yesterday we had 
elections in things. I am one 
of a committee of three to 
get up entertainments in 
Alpha every week. It will be 
lots of work, but I am bound 
to bring the chapter up if it 
is a possible thing. I could 
have been critic again If I 
had chosen, but I had it 
understood beforehand that 
I would not accept it.
Our Senior corridor for 
next year is to be the 3rd 
south. I am sorry It Is so high 
up, but then it is so sunny 
that it will make up. 
We drew lots for choices. There 
were 44 of us. With my usual 
poor luck, I drew 42. Wasn't 
it horrid? However it all 
came out well. Nina drew 1,
[so] She said she would 
rather room with me than 
have a single room, so we 
chose the corner room. It is 
half as large again as any 
other "double-outside", and, 
has two lovely windows, one 
south and one east. I think 
they will let as have two single 
beds if we will buy one. 
How much are little single 
beds? Have you any 'Isn't it funny that 
Mary Taylor is in my parlor? 
Don't say I shall like her, though. 
The other two girls are,— well 
one is a "stick," good natured 
and imbecile. The other will, 
I fancy, need "judicious 
snubbing." She is very fond of 
trying to strike up sudden 
intimacies with people. 
I am so glad I have so nice a 
room, and more glad yet 
that the girls all seemed so 
pleased that I had it. 
Kate and Lou have that 
lovely parlor for two that I told 
you of last year. It is a 
splendid room and they
will enjoy it lots.
Your letter came Saturday 
noon. I hope one will come
tomorrow or Tuesday telling
what to do about the things 
I asked you. I think I will 
have my Hawthornes here. 
Where shall I send the box 
and when? or do you think 
a cheap trunk better? I want 
to know soon. As to the old 
clothes, It is more bother to 
get them to New Hampshire 
than they are worth, and I 
doubt whether there is anything
that would do for Mabel. 
I wonder if that overskirt 
of my brown dress would 
make her anything. There 
would be enough for a dress 
if it would be pretty. How 
big is she. Where could a 
box be sent? It would 
not be nice to have it far
from Washington St. for 
I dare say some things
want to be fixed, and then 
it would not be nice about 
packing in the fall. Jennie 
Titus seems sure of coming 
[back] here next year. I am 
glad she is. It will be nice to 
have someone from Prov. 
for the pleasant side, and 
it is hardly possible for 
her to annoy me even if she 
wished. Of course she will 
not wish, for aside from 
all other motives, it is a 
pretty nice thing for a new 
girl to have a senior for a 
friend. Miss Terry sent
for me the other day to ask 
if I wished for aid next 
year. I did not go until 
after her office hour, but 
she was actually polite and
acted something as a lady 
would. She asked if you 
were teaching now, what 
kind of a school it was. Asked 
if I was not an only child, 
said you must be lonesome 
and that it would be very 
nice for us to be together. 
It was nothing more than 
any lady would have said 
but it was such a shock to 
find her polite that I have 
not recovered yet from it. 
I must stop and go to 
call on Miss Woodman 
before the bell rings.
Eva M. Tappan