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[unknown], Julie | to Isabel Treadwell Towne, Oct. 1869:

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October 17, 1869
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[unknown], Julie. Letter, 1869

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VC Class Year Unknown,1 letter, dated 17 Oct 1869, from "Julie" to Isabel Treadwell Towne (VC spec 1865-1866). "Julie" recounts her first five weeks at Vassar College. She criticizes her room, praises the campus grounds, and describes several of Towne's former classmates. "Julie" also mentions

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Schmitt, Dorothy (Prentiss) — to Mother, 1918

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1918
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Schmitt, Dorothy (Prentiss). Letter, 1918

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1 typed copy of a letter from Schmitt (VC 1920) to her mother about the 1918 fire at Vassar College. Schmitt describes the fire as resulting from a defective flue and causing the collapse of an entire wing of Main Building. She reports that the four hundred students who had been living in Main

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