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June 18, 1866
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VC 1867
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Vassar College, June 18, 1866. My dear Mother, This may be the last letter I write home before I appear there in my bodily presence. I don't feel half as near home as I did three weeks ago. Even the sight of our trunks in the hall fail to give me a realizing sense of our approaching meeting. Just now we are living in clover, as far as studies are concerned. Latin has ceased, Hattie's Greek stopped a week ago, gymnastics are over, and we have only ourselves and the public meeting to attend to, and the members of twenty -three are not at all concerned in that personally- We'll come home as fresh as can be. We held our Society elections last week, the results were as follows:
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Miss Dickinson Pres. Miss Goodsell
Vice Pres. Miss Talbot Sec. Miss Glover
Treas. All but one were western
girls. Miss Mitchell insists that its
only the western girls [handwriting changes here, who do the talking
in Society, and she is nearly though not wholy
right. Tuesday noon. Mattie has some
studying to do and wants her letter
to go this noon so I am finishing it.
She received your letter this morning
and we were delighted to hear from you
again. How soon we shall be at home.
Don't worry about our clothing. I guess
we can manage to look respectibly at
church without anything new for one
Sunday. I dont like to ask you about
it again but have you forgotten that
I want some money. I don't know but
my note to you about it failed to be
put into a letter to Helen that it was
written to go with. I asked you, if
Father was certainly coming for us
to send me $ 15.00 if not $55.00. I think
Vice Pres. Miss Talbot Sec. Miss Glover
Treas. All but one were western
girls. Miss Mitchell insists that its
only the western girls [handwriting changes here, who do the talking
in Society, and she is nearly though not wholy
right. Tuesday noon. Mattie has some
studying to do and wants her letter
to go this noon so I am finishing it.
She received your letter this morning
and we were delighted to hear from you
again. How soon we shall be at home.
Don't worry about our clothing. I guess
we can manage to look respectibly at
church without anything new for one
Sunday. I dont like to ask you about
it again but have you forgotten that
I want some money. I don't know but
my note to you about it failed to be
put into a letter to Helen that it was
written to go with. I asked you, if
Father was certainly coming for us
to send me $ 15.00 if not $55.00. I think
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now it is so uncertain that I wish very
much that if you would send the
whole immediately if you have not
sent any, or the remainder if you
have sent part. I am afraid if it is not
sent soon that we shall have to wait,
and I want some money to get some
things here. I do hope that Father will
come. It will be so much pleasanter.
We now expect to start Wednesday
noon, If so, we shall be at home
Thursday at about half past five.
Will you be glad to see us? And shall
not be glad to see you all. We girls are
anxiously awaiting the arrival of the
proof sheet of our paper. You know
we talked about having one and Father
wrote to us he was afraid we would
neglect our studies for it and so we gave
up the idea; but some of the girls were
very anxious we should get it up, after
Greek was closed and we had so much
more time. I thought Father would
much that if you would send the
whole immediately if you have not
sent any, or the remainder if you
have sent part. I am afraid if it is not
sent soon that we shall have to wait,
and I want some money to get some
things here. I do hope that Father will
come. It will be so much pleasanter.
We now expect to start Wednesday
noon, If so, we shall be at home
Thursday at about half past five.
Will you be glad to see us? And shall
not be glad to see you all. We girls are
anxiously awaiting the arrival of the
proof sheet of our paper. You know
we talked about having one and Father
wrote to us he was afraid we would
neglect our studies for it and so we gave
up the idea; but some of the girls were
very anxious we should get it up, after
Greek was closed and we had so much
more time. I thought Father would
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not care & so wrote an article for
it, and helped about it generally
for two day. It is being printed in
New York. We expect it will be here
by Saturday. I wrote to Father about
it last Saturday, and sent my letter to
Washington. I hope he received
it. He wrote to me he expected
to go home the last of last week
or the first of this and by your
letter I see he had not come home
Saturday morning. We had strawberries
for tea last night in great abundance-
They were delicious. We have had them
only once before and then the girls at
our table ordered and paid for them.
The dinner bell has rung, and I
must go. After dinner. I have received
a letter from Father & he say he has told
Mr. Colburn to send me some money-
so it is all right. I am very sorry that
he probably will not be here to come home
with us. Good by
Your loving Hattie.
it, and helped about it generally
for two day. It is being printed in
New York. We expect it will be here
by Saturday. I wrote to Father about
it last Saturday, and sent my letter to
Washington. I hope he received
it. He wrote to me he expected
to go home the last of last week
or the first of this and by your
letter I see he had not come home
Saturday morning. We had strawberries
for tea last night in great abundance-
They were delicious. We have had them
only once before and then the girls at
our table ordered and paid for them.
The dinner bell has rung, and I
must go. After dinner. I have received
a letter from Father & he say he has told
Mr. Colburn to send me some money-
so it is all right. I am very sorry that
he probably will not be here to come home
with us. Good by
Your loving Hattie.
