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Creator: Vassar, Matthew, 1792-1868
Date: November 29, 1861
Text: Answer to Miss Stowe 8th Nov 1861 on the 29 Nov___ Miss Carrie F. Stowe Dear Stranger Your note of the 4"1 current, is just received, and in reply would answer remark, that the article refered to in MGodeyf Ladies Book" of last month embraces the outline of our plan for a Female College now in process of construction, having this week completed the second Story of the Edifice and discharged the workmen untill the coming Spring. The Building have been pushed forward faster than we at...
Show moreAnswer to Miss Stowe 8th Nov 1861 on the 29 Nov___ Miss Carrie F. Stowe Dear Stranger Your note of the 4"1 current, is just received, and in reply would answer remark, that the article refered to in MGodeyf Ladies Book" of last month embraces the outline of our plan for a Female College now in process of construction, having this week completed the second Story of the Edifice and discharged the workmen untill the coming Spring. The Building have been pushed forward faster than we at first contemplated, and should nothing unforeseen prevent will have the whole edifice completed ready for the reception of pupils by the 1st June 1864, Such is the plans of its internal organisation that a limited number of benificiaries will always participate in its benefits, the number however must some what depend upon the paying Pupils et none but the President of the Institution will ever know who are benificiaries or who are paying pupils, nor can they ever be distinguished by their Costume, as these will be furnished at the expense of the College, exacting pay only to such who are paying pupils in the School__ It is the purpose of the Trustees to provide some suitable place at as early a day as possible to prepare Young Ladies for Teaching in the several departments, and [guide pledges] your name before the executive committee with reference to an appointment, I shall be pleased to see your specimen in fine arts, I enelos-e-send p mail Po1 City press T-eieg^aph containing critisims upon two specimens of the art, now on exhibition in this City - costing some $2000 You need no appology in addressing me on the subject for it were with special reference to the deep sympathies I felt for those of your sex strugling with a desire for knowledge without the pecuniry means of to posses it, that prompt me to this public benificence. Endevour my dear stranger to continue your Mental improvements, not forgetting the more important cultivation the heart, and may God in his Providence bless your labours is the sincere prayer of yrs very truly & Respectfully
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Creator: Vassar, Matthew, 1792-1868
Date: June 25, 1862
Text: June 25" 1862 MaB^fl^G^OKri^F-StewF^- My dear Miss Stowe, I ara just in receipt of your kind favr of the 21st with your Card Photograph I hare read deep over your communication with 4i¥6lf and sympathic interest, I would most be .happy to do all in my power to aid you in your plans & purpose, in the Matter of your Young Daughter and shall register you name on our College Books, and upon its early opening you may depend upon her having a place among the benificaries of the Instition t...
Show moreJune 25" 1862 MaB^fl^G^OKri^F-StewF^- My dear Miss Stowe, I ara just in receipt of your kind favr of the 21st with your Card Photograph I hare read deep over your communication with 4i¥6lf and sympathic interest, I would most be .happy to do all in my power to aid you in your plans & purpose, in the Matter of your Young Daughter and shall register you name on our College Books, and upon its early opening you may depend upon her having a place among the benificaries of the Instition t^reepiy-eypflfc^bise You my dear friend must excuse mte-iw?- the briefity of this note, my heart promps me to write more fully, but I am M-t>ed-aad-^^m.e9#-«^43^w«4e much exhausted from yesterday pro- ceedings it being the annual Meeting of the Bord of Trustees of the Col- of the Members lege where some 20 Assembled Yesterday to hear the Reports of the attend to -a^^efwi-te-fee- several Committee &* the Election of Officers for the ensuing Year. being ■£#§-» rainy & heat registered The Day was extremely unpleasant .3?ai^y^i4;h intensive Never- theless we finished up our Executive business in good time Dined & then took an Excursion to Spfk* to the College grounds; At at- a more convienent opportunity I may H@#e- review your letter and reply more fully Yours in haste
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Creator: Vassar, Matthew, 1792-1868
Date: June 10, 1862
Text: Poughkeepsie June 10 1862, My dear Miss Stowe I am this morning in receipt of your very interesting letter of the 3d inst: with enclosures, and am prompt, under its inspiration of goodness to reply, I am happy to make others happy in any acts of kind- ness or courtesy I can bestow. As you manifest so much interest in my welfare and the V.F. College enterprize I will briefly answer your enquiries, as to the progress of the work, the edifice has now risen to the third tier of beams and expect...
Show morePoughkeepsie June 10 1862, My dear Miss Stowe I am this morning in receipt of your very interesting letter of the 3d inst: with enclosures, and am prompt, under its inspiration of goodness to reply, I am happy to make others happy in any acts of kind- ness or courtesy I can bestow. As you manifest so much interest in my welfare and the V.F. College enterprize I will briefly answer your enquiries, as to the progress of the work, the edifice has now risen to the third tier of beams and expect to have enclosed by the first of Decem- ber next. Allow me to suggest that you must dismiss your modesty in all matters of enquiry touching this institution, I shall allways be happy to impart to you every information pertaining to its progress and prospects. It gives me pleasure to notice in one paragraph in your letter before me that you have "put on Christ11 by a public profession!^ "Baptism*1, this my dear friend is true wisdom—.-nothing can sustain us like the grace of God while walking through this world of Sin and Sorrow, I do congratulate you in this decision, may you my dear friend and Stranger find much consola- tion in living near to your Saviour. I thank you for what you please to call the counterpart of yourself I send you mine in return on the Frontpiece of the "American Journal of Education" with a brief history of my early life. I have now passed my three score and ten, yet have much buyancy of youth, and fair mental vigour, considering that some two years ago had a slight attack of paralisis which some what impairs my memory, otherwise am as well as I ever were in the earlier period of my life. Other engagements oblige me to close this letter. I subscribe myself your friend, On verso: Letters and answers to Carrie F. Stowe Woodstock, Windsor Co., Vermont
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Creator: Stowe, Carrie F.
Date: November 7, 1861
Text: Woodstock Vermont Windsor Co Nov 4th 1869 Mr. Vassar, Dear Sir Please give me your attention a few moments, I will first tell you how I happen to address you, It was by a matter given in “Godess Ladies Book, Oct No- of the Female College- which is to be erected by your goodness, and benevolences By reading of your goodness contained in the extracts of your letter, My heart has been silently guided to write you. By an over ruling Providence- I trust you will pardon me, if I lay aside all...
Show moreWoodstock Vermont Windsor Co Nov 4th 1869 Mr. Vassar, Dear Sir Please give me your attention a few moments, I will first tell you how I happen to address you, It was by a matter given in “Godess Ladies Book, Oct No- of the Female College- which is to be erected by your goodness, and benevolences By reading of your goodness contained in the extracts of your letter, My heart has been silently guided to write you. By an over ruling Providence- I trust you will pardon me, if I lay aside all superfluous apologies and tell you I need the aid of a judicious friend in a matterof the deepest interest to me I would like to have you engage me as a teacher in Drawing, and in French but if not but only in Drawing I wish very much for your friendship, your influence and encouragement, it would be worth a great deal to me, I am poor, fortune has not smiled on me, I have a willing heart, and a ready hand to (…), But my soul longs for (…) it parts for an education which I have never been able to gain- Reverse of fortune prevented my Parents from giving me a liberal education, And home duties have kept me back, now I am more at liberty to defer myself- If I had but one kind Friend to assist me a very little, I could in a short time place myself in a position where I could improveand benefit- myself- and help others too, I trust you will extend your influence- If you should, it would do me a great kindness, And should heaven your life prolong, you shall have the prayers of one who craves your aid, I have a darling sister that I wish to educate at your College, I shall hope, and pray most earnestly to hear from you soon- I shall try to improve all I possibly can in the Art of Painting- I have one piece that has been taken for a strict engraving. I would like to send it to you & think it will recommend itself. Please excuse me for this addressing you which yet a stranger I have been guided instinctively to you,I hope not in vain, but I have already occupyed so much of your time, and will close still trusting, in, Holy father in heaven, for the result of this letter. May the blessings of a kind Providence be with and attend you in your labors Yours respectfully Carrie F. Storer Woodstock Wendson County Vermont If you should wish for a recommend I have friends that would give you one
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Creator: Stowe, Carrie F.
Date: June 3, 1862
Text: Woodstock June 3rd 1862 Mr. Matthew Vassar My dear friend, yours of Nov 29th was duly received, and for your kindness I’m truly very thankful. I was made very happy in receiving your kind letter — I should of been pleased to of answered it sooner, but I feared that I should trouble you too often with my communications, and therefore I’ve waited long and patiently “ere I come again, I wish to hear from you very much, of your health, & of the College also whether it is going on finely, as...
Show moreWoodstock June 3rd 1862 Mr. Matthew Vassar My dear friend, yours of Nov 29th was duly received, and for your kindness I’m truly very thankful. I was made very happy in receiving your kind letter — I should of been pleased to of answered it sooner, but I feared that I should trouble you too often with my communications, and therefore I’ve waited long and patiently “ere I come again, I wish to hear from you very much, of your health, & of the College also whether it is going on finely, as not, and to your satisfaction — I hope it is, and that your life may be spared to see its noblest and best work prospered And may heaven bless you for your noble works undoubtedly, my dear friend, you have thought it very strange, in my addressing you, and thought me almost wild in so doing, but I know my friend, could you look into my heart, you would not condemn me you would discover its deep aspiration and its true secret, and I you would not censure me — Long before I received your words, deep impression — I prayed to god to guide my doubtful steps aright — And did he not guide me to you! I trust he did — Not a day pass — but that I pay most earnestly for your friendship your confidence, and counsel — I’m happy in so doing — every time I pray, there are new spring of joy quickened within my soul. I yearn for the counsel of the good and intellectual — your the most delightful of all life’s blessing to meis an unreserved and ardent communication with the good and intellectual of our earth — Around such friends I love to be — I love to listen to thus words of goodness As yet I’m not the privileged one & know you personally, yet I’m often very near you, silently I come, as loved ones come from the spirit land. Since I last addressed you I’ve taken a very important step I’m happy when memory recalls the hour, that I promised to renounce all evil, that I knelt by the holy, [fount], and received the cleansing laws of baptism I’m very very happy when I think years is my never failing friend — that when the dark clouds of Vassar gather thickly over the sky of my mind, I can lean on his blossom, and rain them bluewill you not congratulate with me in the step I’ve taken, most assuredly you will — My dear friend I wish to ask you if the war will in anyway abstruct — the plans for building the College — I sincerely hope, it will not — in anyway effect them — But I sometimes fear it will — And my soul is sick with everyday’s report — and I sometimes wish for some place of retirement, where summons oppression and deceit, of unsuccessful as successful was might never reach me more — I send you my counterpart what you may know something how your strongest friend looks — I’ve an imaginative one of yourself which I have placed, with the “[Haut et bon]” within this chambers of my soul” Please pardon this intrusion will you not? — and I wish very much to have you suite me, I would be glad to hear from you after — yet it would make me very happy — please excuse all, and let me hear from you soon I remain as ever your humble friend Carrie F. Stowe Carrie F. Stowe
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Creator: Stowe, Carrie F.
Date: February 22, 1863
Text: Newpost Feb 22nd 1863 My very dear friend Mr. Vassar Your kind favor of the … is now before me. And with much pleasure, have I read and reread, I was fearful that you would forget me, but truly thankful that you did not, that I still share a .. in … memory. & I received your letter, and … your …, moments of deep feeling passed, … I could open and read. A letter it has to magician like power, Beneath its real lies an invisible spirit ready to … forth, with art to awaken any or … emotions,...
Show moreNewpost Feb 22nd 1863 My very dear friend Mr. Vassar Your kind favor of the … is now before me. And with much pleasure, have I read and reread, I was fearful that you would forget me, but truly thankful that you did not, that I still share a .. in … memory. & I received your letter, and … your …, moments of deep feeling passed, … I could open and read. A letter it has to magician like power, Beneath its real lies an invisible spirit ready to … forth, with art to awaken any or … emotions, of which the … capable. I am happy to learn that the college edifier is progressing so rapidlyAlthough it … … long time to wait till the Fall of 1864 I trust when all is completed that it will be satisfactory and more than meet yours anticipations. To me … seems & long time, … … shall meet my dear friend personally. I will wait, and trust, that the time will earn when I shall meet him fail to fuel — may your life and health be prolonged. My dear Friend I sympathize … with you, now … your … — In the death of your loved wife you have met with a greatness, but what as your loss, is her gain, she has only gone before you and awaits … coming in a home not made with …, but … in the heavens. Although these is a vacant chair in the …, the welcome step, and even cheering … of a fond wife, are no longer hard, as … were … to be, and a shadow of… … now rests on the household groups et I trust … … … …, with that swelling … of joy, which welcomes the loved one to the … … of the “Beautiful beyond” My efforts to cheer you, in your … will be rain. … is but one that can render you comfort and consolations, earthly friends may bestowed before you their true sympathy, yet it … not satisfy … I possessed with the power of making you happy — how quickly would I do it. The good I would do I do not — The … … by … …, I found very pleasing and intrusting, please except my thanks for it I should be happy to hear from you more often, … it be convenient for you. But if not pardon me, for making the suggestion … heaven’s … blessings be there Yours affectionally, Cassie F. Stowe
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Creator: Stowe, Carrie F.
Date: February 12, 1863
Text: Newpost N. H. Feb 12th 1862 My dear friend Mr Vassar Again my heart prompts me to write, For I would know of your health and happiness Although several months have … since I last addressed, not a day has passed, that I’ve not enjoyed spiritual … with you, and a silent prayer been given to “our Father” for thy health and life. I … you in the daily walks of life, I never … meet a gentleman of your years but that my mind is instantly carried to you — with happiness and delight — why it is, I...
Show moreNewpost N. H. Feb 12th 1862 My dear friend Mr Vassar Again my heart prompts me to write, For I would know of your health and happiness Although several months have … since I last addressed, not a day has passed, that I’ve not enjoyed spiritual … with you, and a silent prayer been given to “our Father” for thy health and life. I … you in the daily walks of life, I never … meet a gentleman of your years but that my mind is instantly carried to you — with happiness and delight — why it is, I cannot tell, unless it is that your … …., has assured me of so much in the future.. of July 19th “you say that my note of the 12th was clothed in language that deeply affected you I would have them impart true pleasure — not a moment of sadness — yes I would … gifted with the power of making you happy, through the remainder of your life. I would be happy to hear form you, and also of the college of its progression & please write me of agreeable — And my prayer shall still be that blessings, … … and temporal shall be thine. I will remember with love & affection Carrie F. Stowe P.S. my address will be at Newport Sullivan Co. N. H. Where I can now stoping with an invalid sister
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