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February 25, 1872
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Vassar Collage
Feb. 25, 1872.
My dear Mamma,
This is a very gloomy Sunday, but very much like a spring day.
The last week has seemed so much like March weather. It has been
quite warm with blustering winds which sometimes were cold. Then too
the ground is so "soft" that the walking is not very agreeable. Yesterday,
however, the road had become quite dry and Birdie Bell and I were anti-
cipating such a pleasant walk into Po'keepsie today to attend church, but
this morning we were disappointed, because it rained a good deal last
night and
Feb. 25, 1872.
My dear Mamma,
This is a very gloomy Sunday, but very much like a spring day.
The last week has seemed so much like March weather. It has been
quite warm with blustering winds which sometimes were cold. Then too
the ground is so "soft" that the walking is not very agreeable. Yesterday,
however, the road had become quite dry and Birdie Bell and I were anti-
cipating such a pleasant walk into Po'keepsie today to attend church, but
this morning we were disappointed, because it rained a good deal last
night and
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the roads are again muddy. Miss Tarry is very good to us.
Anyone can go in to church the first Sunday in the month and we Episco-
palians can go any or every Sunday we please. Then we can go into
Po'keepsie on Saturdays without a teacher which is very nice. I never go
in because I have nothing in particular to do and do not enjoy trudging
about the streets doing nothing. In the spring vacation I shall go in how-
ever. About dresses which is always a womans greatest nuisance. I think
I had better have my last year's suit made over into a polonaise. The
waist is much soiled and the sleeves are worn out so that I shall have to
try and get some stuff to match it: if I cannot, I do not know what I shall
do. I have worn
Anyone can go in to church the first Sunday in the month and we Episco-
palians can go any or every Sunday we please. Then we can go into
Po'keepsie on Saturdays without a teacher which is very nice. I never go
in because I have nothing in particular to do and do not enjoy trudging
about the streets doing nothing. In the spring vacation I shall go in how-
ever. About dresses which is always a womans greatest nuisance. I think
I had better have my last year's suit made over into a polonaise. The
waist is much soiled and the sleeves are worn out so that I shall have to
try and get some stuff to match it: if I cannot, I do not know what I shall
do. I have worn
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the dress a great deal but still I thought it would last
better than it has done. But you remember that I am very hard on my
clothes.
There has been a daughter of one of the Lelands here at college.
Her father keeps the Stuyvesant house in New York and is
building a fine hotel somewhere near the park. This girl seemed rather
peculiar, had red hair, a fiery temper and was much too familiar with the
College servants. One day last week her father came to the College bring-
ing with him a lieutenant in the army. When Miss Leland received them
in the parlor her father informed her that she must leave school immedi-
ately and marry the Lieutenant. Miss Leland had only seen the gentleman
two or three times before and very much disliked him, and so she told her
better than it has done. But you remember that I am very hard on my
clothes.
There has been a daughter of one of the Lelands here at college.
Her father keeps the Stuyvesant house in New York and is
building a fine hotel somewhere near the park. This girl seemed rather
peculiar, had red hair, a fiery temper and was much too familiar with the
College servants. One day last week her father came to the College bring-
ing with him a lieutenant in the army. When Miss Leland received them
in the parlor her father informed her that she must leave school immedi-
ately and marry the Lieutenant. Miss Leland had only seen the gentleman
two or three times before and very much disliked him, and so she told her
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father she would not marry the man for she hated him. Thereupon the
father became enraged & she grew also. It finally ended by her leaving
College. She told the girls that she was in deadly fear of her father
and would have to obey him. She left here Wednesday saying if she married
at all it would not be until some time this week. Great then was our
astonishment at reading in a New York paper that she was married on
Thursday, the day after leaving here. It seems her father is a very pas-
sionate man, who treated his wife so badly that she separated from him.
There were four children. The mother took two and the father two. This
one fell to the father: she herself says that neither father or mother care
what becomes of her. Her father became very much in debt to the Lieu-
tenant and gives his daughter to him for pay; isn't it dreadful? Lieutenant
Conckline and his wife start for Texas
father became enraged & she grew also. It finally ended by her leaving
College. She told the girls that she was in deadly fear of her father
and would have to obey him. She left here Wednesday saying if she married
at all it would not be until some time this week. Great then was our
astonishment at reading in a New York paper that she was married on
Thursday, the day after leaving here. It seems her father is a very pas-
sionate man, who treated his wife so badly that she separated from him.
There were four children. The mother took two and the father two. This
one fell to the father: she herself says that neither father or mother care
what becomes of her. Her father became very much in debt to the Lieu-
tenant and gives his daughter to him for pay; isn't it dreadful? Lieutenant
Conckline and his wife start for Texas
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very soon. Such a thing occurring
in our midst has excited us and caused a great deal of talk. The young
lady was over twenty and I think could not be compelled to marry against
her wish. I will write to Carrie today and so will close this. Remember
me to all my friends in Austin.
Accept much love from your ,
loving
Julie
(Julia M. Pease, '75)
in our midst has excited us and caused a great deal of talk. The young
lady was over twenty and I think could not be compelled to marry against
her wish. I will write to Carrie today and so will close this. Remember
me to all my friends in Austin.
Accept much love from your ,
loving
Julie
(Julia M. Pease, '75)
