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Dear Minnie
I will not describe my Journey here, any more than to say, that after a very pleasant ride, we reached Poughkeepsie about eight o'clock in the evening and found the hotels crowded with applicants for Vassar College, and their friends. At a little after eight o'clock, the next morning we drove over to the College, I being in great apprehension of the examination. But it was not nearly so difficult as I expected. In Grammar, they asked what were the principal parts of Grammar, and their meanings, what a sentence was, and its principal parts, and all about the different classes of pronouns. In Geography, the asked the
Give my love to all at home, and to all inquiring friends. Excuse my writing with a pencil, as I have no ink. Hoping to have a long letter from you, very soon, I remain your
Loving Cousin
Amelia.
[Juliet Amelia Adams, prep.'69-70]