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October 28, 1866
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Vassar College, Oct. 28/66.
Dear Kate,
I received Mrs. Dana's good letter yesterday and was very glad to receive it, but was so so sorry to think that you are sick and not able to write; Mama wrote me that you were not well, but I had no Idea that you were as sick as you are, but I hope that you will be very much better before many days have gone by. You can see by the date of my letter that I am doing something that I am not in the habit of doing, something that is writing a letter on the Sabbath, but when I heard that you were sick I decided that as I could not come and see you, that it is a pleasure and as much my duty to write to you as to do anything else. I have just been having a good long talk with Laura Bartlett and also read
Dear Kate,
I received Mrs. Dana's good letter yesterday and was very glad to receive it, but was so so sorry to think that you are sick and not able to write; Mama wrote me that you were not well, but I had no Idea that you were as sick as you are, but I hope that you will be very much better before many days have gone by. You can see by the date of my letter that I am doing something that I am not in the habit of doing, something that is writing a letter on the Sabbath, but when I heard that you were sick I decided that as I could not come and see you, that it is a pleasure and as much my duty to write to you as to do anything else. I have just been having a good long talk with Laura Bartlett and also read
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her Mrs. Dana's letter. We came out of Bible class together and then sat down at the bottom of one of the pair of stairs to talk for a little while, as we neither of us wished to go to the other's room to-day. I asked her to come down the other day and get some of the cookies, which Mama sent me (as they are quite a treat to us here) she came down night but I was out, and she says she will come again.
I had a box from home Thursday with my Winter cloak, (did you see it) and some other things, quite a number of pictures among others the picture of our Sunday school class. I have them hung up and you do not know how nice and home-like it makes our parlor seem. I am going to have a frame for the picture of our house as near as possible like the one on the picture of the Sunday school class. I went down to Poughkeepsie yesterday, it is only the second time that I have down excepting communion Sabbath since I have been here, and I had the good fortune while there of meeting in one of the stores Willie
I had a box from home Thursday with my Winter cloak, (did you see it) and some other things, quite a number of pictures among others the picture of our Sunday school class. I have them hung up and you do not know how nice and home-like it makes our parlor seem. I am going to have a frame for the picture of our house as near as possible like the one on the picture of the Sunday school class. I went down to Poughkeepsie yesterday, it is only the second time that I have down excepting communion Sabbath since I have been here, and I had the good fortune while there of meeting in one of the stores Willie
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Allen, it seemed very pleasant to see even him because he was from Milwaukee; and I also met on the street Addy Storms. She has come to Poughkeepsie to attend school, she told me the name of the school but I do not remember the name now, where she thought she would have a gayer time than she would at Vassar, because she would be allowed to go out with her friends more there than she would here, which I think is very probable. I have commenced taking riding lessons took my first lesson last Friday morning, a private lesson from one they pretend to call a Baron, but whose right to the title seems to me to be rather doubtful. I think that I am going to like it very much indeed, I believe that he has over fifty scholars. I do wish that you were going to study German this year I am so sure that you would like it ever and ever so much, but then you know that it has always been my wish to study German and I am not in the least disappointed in it. I like French very much but am not quite so interested in it as in my German. I think that perhaps that you have heard
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through Mamma of my having commenced Physical Geography and Geology, these alternate and under the charge of Prof. Tenny; we are taught almost entirely by lectures, we have a text book written by Prof. Tenny in which we read in particular subjects and when he has finished any one subject he examines us on what he has told us. There are about ninety in the class, and we are obliged to have our recitations in the Chapel. A week ago yesterday Prof. T. took some twenty of us to the other side of the Hudson river on a geologizing excursion, it was a beautiful afternoon and we had a splendid time; we started about two o'clock and did not get home until after dark; after considerable consultation between President Raymond and Miss Lyman, those that wished were allowed to wear their gymnastic dresses as we were to go where we would see but two or three, and it would be so much more convenient in climbing the mountains, there were about half of us wore our suits and we were very glad that we did. Last evening Kate Ober and a Lizzie
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Mather and myself went in and called on Prof. Tenny, as he had promised to give us some specimens we had a very pleasant call, all most all of the Profs have houses connected with the College. I am so sorry that you were not able to go to Flora Matson's reception for I know how disappointed you must have been, and I was disappointed too for I wanted to hear from you all about it, what everyone had on, what they said, and even what they thought, and I also wanted to know what you did and what you wore, but as you had to bear so much the greater part of the disappointment, I will not speak of mine. Mamma sent some of the wedding cake in my box, and I have intended to dream on it every single night since it came but have forgotten it, but I have a piece left and think that perhaps I may think of it before it is all gone. It is as still about the house and grounds here to-day as if it were a private building and one would scarcely think excepting from the size of the building that there could be between four and five hundred persons in
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such grounds. I think that I had better stop for to-day as it will soon be twelve o'clock and the mail does not go out until tomorrow afternoon. I should have written all of my letter to-morrow but I knew that I should not have time. Oh how much that I wish that I could see you for a little while, I have been gone over two months, yet it seems a good long time to look forward to next June; how I hope that when you come East next Summer you will be able to come here, and see everything that there is to be seen and come down here into our little parlor, it seems so it was almost too nice to think of but yet I hope that it may be realized.
Monday morning - I received a letter from Minnie Bradford this morning. She says that she is delighted with her school. It is almost dinner time and the mail goes very soon after dinner so I must stop. Write as soon as you can for I shall be very anxious to know how you are.
Monday morning - I received a letter from Minnie Bradford this morning. She says that she is delighted with her school. It is almost dinner time and the mail goes very soon after dinner so I must stop. Write as soon as you can for I shall be very anxious to know how you are.
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Give my love to your mother and sister. In haste I am as ever your loving
friend,
Mary.
friend,
Mary.
