Answer to Miss Stowe 8th Nov 1861
on the 29 Nov___
Miss Carrie F. Stowe
Dear Stranger
Your note of the 4"1 current, is just received,
and in reply would answer remark, that the article refered to in MGodeyf
Ladies Book" of last month embraces the outline of our plan for a Female
week
College now in process of construction, having this ve^y^da-y- completed
the second Story of the Edifice and discharged the workmen untill the
Building
coming Spring.    The wo-rif- have been pushed forward faster than we at
first contemplated, and should nothing unforeseen prevent will have the
whole edifice completed ready for the reception of pupils by the 1st -M-Sep#
is                           of
4864r   June 1864,        Such haw- been the plans -of its internal organisation
that a limited number of benificiaries will always participate in its benefits,
the number however must some what depend upon the paying Pupils___-btrt-
none
SHeh-is-eH^-paa^posre-iH- Yet^but the President of the Institution thre-£o-mx*&$>-
ever
will know who are benificiaries or who are paying pupils, nor can they ever
be distinguished by their Costume, as these will be furnished at the expense
of the College, exacting pay only to such who are paying pupils in the School__
It is the purpose of the Trustees to provide some suitable place as-ar-pr-epa-sr-a—
a                                                                             for
jj&iPf--::£<eeeGh&&e- at as early^day as possible to prepare Young Ladies #G-p-a.-s-
■Oo-Mege-                       I will place        piaree-
Teaching in the severaLdepartments, and se-e<KHi--£-wM4-kee-p- your name
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Nov. 29, 1861         - 2
Executive
before theACommitte with reference to an appointment,       I shall be
r
pleased to see your specimen in fine arts, I enelos-e-send p    mail Po1
City press
T-eieg^aph containing critisims upon two specimens of the art, now on
exhibition in this City - costing some $2000         You need no appology
in addressing me on the subject for it were with special reference to the
deep sympathies I felt for those of your sex strugling with a desire for
knowledge without the pecuniry means of to posses it, that prompt me to
this public benificence.         Endevour my dear stranger to continue your
Mental improvements, not forgetting the more important cultivation
the heart, and may God in his Providence bless your labours is the sincere
prayer
of yrs very truly & Respectfully
MV
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