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Vassar College.
Sunday A. M. 6. o'clock
My dear Will,
I am up unusually early this morning for the purpose of attending an Easter service in one of the recitation rooms, held by the Episcopalian girls, and as I am going to church today, and may be tired this evening, I am going to write you now, so as to be sure of you. It is a beautiful spring morning, the rain last night was just sufficient to lay the dust nicely and make it delightful walking today. I am very glad for a great many girls want to walk into to church today on account of its being Easter, and the Holy Comforter, where the Episcopalians attend, is too far to walk in bad weather. Louise and I are going to the Methodist church we went
Sunday A. M. 6. o'clock
My dear Will,
I am up unusually early this morning for the purpose of attending an Easter service in one of the recitation rooms, held by the Episcopalian girls, and as I am going to church today, and may be tired this evening, I am going to write you now, so as to be sure of you. It is a beautiful spring morning, the rain last night was just sufficient to lay the dust nicely and make it delightful walking today. I am very glad for a great many girls want to walk into to church today on account of its being Easter, and the Holy Comforter, where the Episcopalians attend, is too far to walk in bad weather. Louise and I are going to the Methodist church we went
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to last Sunday, and where we intend to go the rest of the time. Helen went over the river yesterday to what I call "the botanist Elysium," where she found a great many beautiful flowers. She and Miss Shattuck went together, and stayed till the middle of the afternoon. Trailing arbutus grows there and no where else in this region, they failed to find any however. Prof. Tenney obliged his botany class to make an herbarium of at least two hundred specimens. I am sure I don't know where they will find them, but Helen prides herself upon having nearly twenty already - I am glad that I took my life in my hand and was examined in Botany instead of studying it. Our invitations for Founder's Day have come. I think that they are vary pretty, and certainly less work and trouble than the written ones of last year. We are going to send you one. I wish that
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you could come. I have been snubbed by the Committee of Arrangements at every proposal I have made. I offered myself for marshall of the day, and they told me that the marshall was appointed and to my most urgent entreaties they only replied by laughing. I then mildly suggested the expediency of my writing the poem, and they had the poor taste to prefer Louise Blatchley. To be sure her poem is exquisite, but just consider what mine might have been. I likewise promised to wear my "Infant Phenomenon" clothes in case that they would suffer me to receive the guests in the parlor, and that they declined also. To think that my own sister is chairman of the committee, and treats me so. Minnie is coming back Tuesday night and my heart leaps whenever I think of it. We have missed her sorely. I trust that she will be quite well and able to go through the next nine
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weeks in safety. Just think how soon we will be at home about two months more and then. I hope that Mother is at home by this time. She said that she was going last week. I don't like to tell you how glad I am for you, lest she shouldn't have come, and it should prove an aggravation. Weren't Carrie and Lucy good? They have sent me a box of cake by Minnie. They thought that Minnie left a week earlier than she does and so brought it up last Friday. Give my love to all the people. I hope that you did your duty and called upon Minnie. I want to see you very much my dear. I must stop writing and go Chapel, and after that to church. You see I didn't succeed in finishing this before service this morning. I enjoyed the letter very much indeed.
Good bye dear - Your sister - Mattie
Good bye dear - Your sister - Mattie
