Poughkeepsie
Saturday Morning
March 10, 1866
My dear Miss Dickinson
I am just in receipt of your kind note of
yesterday morning handed me by your Treasurer M.V# Junr to attend
a social gathering at the College Chapel last evening to listen to a
Shakesperian Reading by your President.   It is a quaint saying that
you cannot loose what you do not posses, but I do not believe from
what I learn this Morning but xxxxxx I have lost that which I cannot
regain very soon again by my absence.
Dont send your messages by old nWiddowersn theres no depen-
dence on them while being surround., by so many College attraction. .
Miss Germond joins in these sentiments & sincere regards &c
Yours truly &c
M. Vassar
O Q K
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