Transcription view:
While on the first image, click on the three stacked horizontal lines (burger) on the top left side of the image viewer to view the text transcription for the entire item. The transcription will not be viewable once you click through the other page images.
Details
April 21. 1869
My dear Mollie.
You do not deserve an answer to your letter so quickly but as I have more time than usual, and also the inclination, I am going to write you a short letter. It is very warm and I am sitting in my room on the bed with Amanda by my side studying German. You will probably be quite surprised to hear that we have had a short vacation. Last Wednesday we had a meeting of the Student's Association and sent a petition to the Faculty for a few days vacation. They granted it on condition that every girl who went away would give her ^word of honor that she would return
Goodsell also had a telegram that her Father could not live and she has gone home. She will not come back to graduate. Emma Colby felt so very badly that it has made her real sick. Now, Mollie you will not be surprised to hear something very sad, but something you have long expected. Mr. Mitchell died last evening just at sunset. He had been slowly fading away for a week and last night he just dropped asleep. I know none of the particulars of his death now. One of his sons and two of his daughters were with him. They left for Nantucket
Evening. We have Just come from chapel where the President has been talking to us nearly an hour of Mr. Mitchell and his life. How beautiful his life was. Dr. Raymond
Evening. We have Just come from chapel where the President has been talking to us nearly an hour of Mr. Mitchell and his life. How beautiful his life was. Dr. Raymond
Hattie Palmer
[Harriet (Palmer) Slocum, '70.]
Do write just as soon as you can. I will send those exercises and that waist of Chopins in a short time.