Thompson, Addie | to father, n.d.:

VC Prep 1875-1876
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VC Prep 1875-1876
VC Prep 1875-1876
VC Prep 1875-1876
VC Prep 1875-1876
VC Prep 1875-1876
VC Prep 1875-1876
VC Prep 1875-1876
VC Prep 1875-1876
VC Prep 1875-1876
VC Prep 1875-1876
VC Prep 1875-1876
VC Prep 1875-1876
This photo album is arranged in loose chronological order from Lathrop's freshman through senior year at Vassar College. Lathrop eagerly joined the social and extracurricular life at Vassar, documenting hall plays, costume parties, basketball games and boating. She indulged a love of the outdoors
1 letter, dated Nov 18 1865, from Thompson (VC Prep 1865-Feb 1866) to Mrs. Boynton, her Bible class teacher and pastor's wife. Thompson writes formally. She details several features of life at Vassar College, such as shopping in Poughkeepsie, President Raymond, the professors, and the college
4 letters from Thompson to her father about her experiences at Vassar from 1873 to 1876. Thompson reports social news and her performance on the entrance examinations, requests more money for school books, and repents accidental overspending on a dress to wear to an acquaintance's wedding.
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