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Date
November 22, 1865
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VC Spec 1865-1866
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vassar:25032,,Box 73,VCL_Letters_Sylvester_Helen_1865-1866_011
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: VCLLettersSylvesterHelen18651866011001
Poughkeepsie
Nov 22nd 1865.
My dear father,
If you conclude to send a note requesting permission for me to go to New York as I hope you will please send me some more money as I have but a little remaining. I have spent but very little excepting for my school books. I paid for my gymnasium dress $14 and have bought apples a few times with my roommates. When books - some of them - cost $2.50 it counts up. My roommate Clara Spaulding has written home for a note to request permission to spend Sunday with her sister who is at school in N.Y. and Miss Lyman said if she had
Nov 22nd 1865.
My dear father,
If you conclude to send a note requesting permission for me to go to New York as I hope you will please send me some more money as I have but a little remaining. I have spent but very little excepting for my school books. I paid for my gymnasium dress $14 and have bought apples a few times with my roommates. When books - some of them - cost $2.50 it counts up. My roommate Clara Spaulding has written home for a note to request permission to spend Sunday with her sister who is at school in N.Y. and Miss Lyman said if she had
: VCLLettersSylvesterHelen18651866011002
a note from home she could go. The note is required as a sort of guarantee that your parents are willing. Do let me go, Clara wants me to go with her. If you will please write next mail.
Your affectionate
daughter Helen
Your affectionate
daughter Helen
