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Creator: Reed, Amy L., Underhill, Adelaide
Date: [After 1916]
Text: SOPHIA F. RICHARDSON 1855 - 1916 The Faculty wish to record their sorrow at the death on February 2, 1916, of Sophia F. Richardson, Assistant Professor of Mathematics. Miss Richardson, who was graduated from Vassar in 1879 and who re- turned as instructor in 1886, had almost completed thirty years of devoted service to her college. She literally gave her life to teaching and to study for the sake of teaching, using her many talents and employing her times of rest solely for the benefit of her...
Show moreSOPHIA F. RICHARDSON 1855 - 1916 The Faculty wish to record their sorrow at the death on February 2, 1916, of Sophia F. Richardson, Assistant Professor of Mathematics. Miss Richardson, who was graduated from Vassar in 1879 and who re- turned as instructor in 1886, had almost completed thirty years of devoted service to her college. She literally gave her life to teaching and to study for the sake of teaching, using her many talents and employing her times of rest solely for the benefit of her profession. Her work was character- ized by definiteness and originality of teaching method and by the mental and moral energy of the response which she secured from her students. While her great reserve confined her friendships to a small circle, those who knew her well received the highest inspiration from her exquisite appreciation of the fine things of life, her singleness of pur- pose, and her essentially Christian character. By her death the college loses a rare personality, a teacher of long and successful experience, and a faithful friend. Amy L. Reed Adelaide Underhill VI - 97
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Creator: Sague, Mary, Monnier, Mathilde
Date: [After 1941]
Text: 1 J \ 4 1 x MARY MacCOLL 1877+ - l9lpl The Faculty of Vassar College with deep regret records the death of Mary MacColl on February lh, l9hl. For the past twenty-five years her life was wholly devoted to the well being of the college which she served in the triple capacity of teacher, resident, and active member of the community. Fro the time of her graduation from Vassar she was as- sociated with educational work, first as a teacher at Stratford, Connecticut; later, when a graduate student...
Show more1 J \ 4 1 x MARY MacCOLL 1877+ - l9lpl The Faculty of Vassar College with deep regret records the death of Mary MacColl on February lh, l9hl. For the past twenty-five years her life was wholly devoted to the well being of the college which she served in the triple capacity of teacher, resident, and active member of the community. Fro the time of her graduation from Vassar she was as- sociated with educational work, first as a teacher at Stratford, Connecticut; later, when a graduate student at Columbia University, as secretary in a Barnard College dormitory. Having been granted the degree of Master of Arts in 191S,sshe returned to Vassar in February 1916. As Associate Warden and Resident she was an untir- ing and valued liaison officer between the students, the parents, and the Faculty. With patience, human understanding, unfailing tact, and sound judgment, she gave herself gladly and.generously to the ad- justing of the problems forever arising in a complex comunity. These same gifts were brought to bear on her duties as social head of the Vassar Nurses Train— ing Camp in 1918 and for the Vassar Summer Institute of Euthenics from 1926 to 193h. Guests, alumnae, members of the college pay grateful tribute to Mary MacColl, hostess of Main Building, for her ever kindly, gracious hospitality. Her as- sociates in Poughkeepsie and in Dutchess County too pay tribute to her, for her well-known constructive interest in civic affairs. For all her friends the regret for her going will always be tempered by gratitude for having known her gay kindly wit, her loyal gallant spirit. Mary Sague Mathilde Monnier x-211;
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Creator: Burroughs, John, 1837-1921
Date: October 1, 1897 - April 4, 1898
Text: Oct 1st The month comes in bright and hot, 88 degrees. 4 Bright lovely days, and cooler. 5 We start for Boston to day at 10. I go by way of St Albans and wife to B. I reach St. A. at 8 P.M. Spend [crossed out: 3] 2 days there pleasantly; weather cloudy and chilly. 8 Reach Boston to-night and Julians room at 8. Very happy to see the dear boy again. 9. Go with J. to hear two lectures and in P.M. to see football bet. Harvard and Dartmouth. Bright lovely days. 10 To church -- use three -- a flat,...
Show moreOct 1st The month comes in bright and hot, 88 degrees. 4 Bright lovely days, and cooler. 5 We start for Boston to day at 10. I go by way of St Albans and wife to B. I reach St. A. at 8 P.M. Spend [crossed out: 3] 2 days there pleasantly; weather cloudy and chilly. 8 Reach Boston to-night and Julians room at 8. Very happy to see the dear boy again. 9. Go with J. to hear two lectures and in P.M. to see football bet. Harvard and Dartmouth. Bright lovely days. 10 To church -- use three -- a flat, insipid sermon 12 Warm to day with showers in P.M. 14 Bright lovely days; we start for home at 8,30. Julian goeswith us to the street car on Harvard Square, in the clear crisp morning light. He stands there in the pave-ment as we move off and waves his hand. I look back and see him run quickly across the street toward his hall. I dare say my heart is much the heaviest. It is the October of my life, the May of his. We ride all day through the sunlit golden land; reach home at 7 P.M. 15 Still bright and cloudy; foliage all crimson and gold. But oh, how sad it all is to me; the thought of Julian constantly in my mind. Distance does contain a little bitterness of death. 16 Very warm. 90 degrees on my porch a brisk S.W. breeze; dry 17 A change in the night with brisk wind from NW. No rain. Much cooler, and clear.-- As a rule I think the men who deny Christ now are the men who would have accepted him in his own day. They are men who believe in the present hour and man. They live in to-day and not in yesterday. Is the converse of this true also? namely that those who accept Christ to-day, are the ones who would have denied him had they seen and heard him? I believe it is mainly true. To accept the new man, the Christ of to-day, requires different endowment from that which accepts the theological Christ, or the theoretical Christ of the past ages. The Christ is always unpopular or denied by the mass of his contemporaries. 18 Bright and sharp. A severe frost last night. "The fact revealed by the spectro-scope, that the physical elements of the earth exist also in the stars, supports the faith that a moral nature like our own inhabits the universe" An example of false reasoning by analogy. We know the stars exist; we see them, and the spectroscope reveals to us that the elements we know here on earth are found there. But this moral nature like our own -- this is assumed and is not supported at all by the analogy. The only legitimate inference from the analogy is that beings like ourselves inhabit the stars or their planets. As our sun has planets it is legitimate to infer that the other suns have planets. As our sun has planets, it is legitimate to infer that the other suns have planets, and that they have or have had, or may yet have beings like ourselves upon them. The above quotation is the opening sentences of an article in The Forum of last May, on "Fallacies Concerning Prayer." The conclusion of the writer is that prayer is answered by or through its reflex action upon the petitioner; he rises to the height of his prayer. If he prays earnestly for health the [crossed out: mind] psychic effect may help cure the disease; if he prays for more faith, he already by that act of will has it. This is the new conception of prayer that science has brought about. Yet this writer a Reverend, has his little fling at science. But it is doubtful if mankind will continue to pray if they once come to take this viw of answer to prayer. 23. Still bright and mild and dry Go down to Summit to-day to visit Mabie24 Cloudy and chilly, light rain. Mabie and I walk in the morning. A pleasant family -- new house excellent taste -- books by the thousand. In P.M. Whittridge the artist comes in; like him much; the plainness and simplicity of a country farmer. We take to each other. 25 Rain and wind to-day -- storm coming up the Coast. Start for home. 26. Home this morning; no rain here; clear and dry. 27 Still clear and dry. Katy-did last night. 28 Hiram goes back to Hobart to-day. 30 Colder, go down to West Point. Meet Alden of Harpers. Something very good and sweet about Alden. See the West Point team tie Yale at football.Nov 1st Warmer. Slow rain this morning from S.W. No rain to speak of for six weeks. -- How high the clouds sail above the mountains; their long uplifted ridges seem no barrier to them. Yet the mountains, so fixed and inert, surely cast a spell upon the clouds. They rob them of their rain; they hold the summer shower as with a tether, or they fix the boundaries of the storm. 2. Rain all night pretty heavy and now at 9 A.M. still at it; over one inch of water. -- Shall we say then that literature is not matter or substance, but a quality of substance? A true literary genius shall make literature out of the most [crossed out: normal] ordinary or commonplace subject by passing it through his heart or emotions. He imparts to it some quality from his own genius [crossed out: as the] An image or analogy that perpetually recurs to me is that of the bee and her honey. What the bee gets from the flower is sweet water to this she imparts a drop of formic acid, secreted by her own body. In like manner the literary artist imparts to his matter some quality or effluence of himself. -- I think it is a very just remark [crossed out: which] or Criticism which Arnold makes in a letter to Norton of Lowells essay on Democracy -- namely that it lacks body and current, and that its bright sayings and points cannot make up for the want [crossed out: lack] of these. It is more or less true of all Lowells prose, it seems to me; his essays have not body and direction; too much force is spent upon wit and verbal detail. They lack simplicity and rapidity of movement. There are no leading ideas that shed a light over the whole. Arnold himself had this virtue in a pre-eminent degree; there are in his writings no verbal fire-works to distract the attention; he moves right along; we follow him easily; he is as lucid as the day. It seems to me this is the highest merit; motion, motion, simplicity, and the clearness that comes out of them. -- As soon as a work is conscious-ly literary, its value is gone. This is the fault I find with much of Walter Paters work; the effort is too obviously a literary one; the style takes note of itself. When a man is consciously religious do we not question his sincerity? The style that standsbefore the glass has fallen from grace. "Behold the lilies of the field" etc. Let your style be a real blossoming like theirs, a grace from within and not an adornment from without. Indeed, there is hardly a maxim true in morals or religion that is not equally true in art. Literature is a much broader term than science; it is not the thing itself but that which embalms and preserves the thing; it is an atmosphere, an effluence. A work may have a high literary value that has not a rag of literary adornment, and that never thinks of itself as literature at all, as the Bible. The utterencs of illiterte men under certain pressure, may have a hight literary value. Literature is not this or that, but it is the flavor, the quality of this, or that. We are apt to thinkthat the moral, or religious, or philo-sophical value of a work is quite independent of its [crossed out: relig]literary value. But it is not. Its literary value rises out of tis moral or other value and is great or little as it is great or little. The most moving passage in the sermon is for that very reason the best literary passage. The most effective political tract is good literature just in pro-portion to its effectiveness. To say a thing so that it goes to the quick -- that is the demand of [crossed out: good] literature. Grants Memoirs and many of his despatches from the field of battle have literary value. Lincolns Gettysburg speech has high literary value, tho it never for a moment takes thought of itself. Everetts speech on the same occasion was a literary effort, but poor literature for all that. Literary efforts -- who does not want to steer clear of them in his reading. Give usan effort to speak a sane and truthful and sincere word. Huxleys writings have a great literary value because the effort is never a literary one, but a real one. When the preacher forgets that he is a preacher and is intent only to speak some real word but of his life and or experience as one soul to another soul, we listen to him gladly. When the editorial writer in the daily paper has some real conviction burning within him, and not merely a column to fill up, we warm up as we follow him; he is making literature. Real indignation, real anger, real love, real sym-pathy, real insight, real convic-tion -- out of these things comes literature. 4 Day of great beauty -- all gold, mild as early Oct, no wind, the river a great mirror. Some Poughkeepsie people on their wheels in the P.M. Night all silver. Suffering from my first cold for 3 or 4 years, -- I have often tried to define to myself what it is that makes good prose. I suppose one might as well try to define what it is that makes a good apple or a good melon. It is a complex result, or the result of complex causes. One mans prose may differ vastly from that of another, and yet be equally good. There must of course be a sense of maturity of ripeness, as in the case of the apple; and there must be savor, quality, the thing must be real and vital. [crossed out: 9] 7. Fine day, cool and bracing; drive over to Sherwoods with young Arthur. 9th Cloudy, foggy, slow rain all night and part of yesterday after noon; chilly, a typical Nov. day of the negative sort, clears in P.M. Colder and windy. -- How much more valuable to a man is an instinct for the truth than any special gift or accomplishment. If he craves the truth alone, he will not be disturbed if his theories and systems fall in ruins about his head. Then I must find a larger and deeper truth, he says. What an instinct for the truth had Darwin. When facts appeared to be against him, how he wel-comed them, when they became his friends. How often we see men of brilliant part who achieve nothing of permanent worth because they have not this instinct for truth. A man with a system or theory to uphold is handicapped, unless he has an instinct for the truth like Darwin. Taine's criticism is less valuable than it would be had he no system to uphold. They are free indeed whom the truth makes free, because the truth finds them free. 15 Nov. still rather mild. No snow yet and not much frost. Nearly three inches of rain this month Discouraging news from Julian, low marks in his studies. He has no talent for languages; in consequence he may have to give up College. Overcast, threatening rain 16. Storm over; clear and warm like early October; air hazy. -- The day inevitably comes to every author when he must take his place amid the silent throngs of the past, when no new work can call atention to him afresh, when the partiality of friends no longer counts; when his freinds and admirers are [???] when gathered to their fathers the spirit of the day in which he writes has given place to [crossed out: another ???] the spirit of another and different day how, oh how will it fare with him then? How is it going to fare with Lowell, with Longfellow, with Emerson, with Whitman? How will it fare with poor me? 19. First snow to-day, all the forenoon a quiet fall of large light flakes; they lie on the grass and weeds and trees like tufts of cotton or wool, an inch or more. 20. A white wash of snow over all; still a seamless cloud. No wind, no sun, chilly. 23 Our second snow last night, nearly 3 inches. Bright and still this morning. -- What is only a bud in the father often becomes a branch in the son. -- When I write upon any literary theme I have to write and write till I get a sort of fund or capital to do business on. 25. Thanksgiving day. Mercury has been down to 10. Chilly to-day, ground white. 26 Rain and warmer. Snow all off. Go to P. 27. Rained nearly all night, clearing and colder this morning. 28 Clear and bright with sharp biting air. -- Emerson is a poor singer [crossed out: but] with wonderfully penetrating tones; it seems to me ha has no equal in this respect. And it was these tones that he valued most in others, any aeolian strain caught his ear at once. -- I see that the success of my little poem "Waiting" is not on account of its poetic merit, but for some other merit or quality. It puts insimple and happy form some common religious aspiration, without using at all the religious jargon. People write me from all parts of the country that they treasure it in their hearts, it is an anchor to windward. A celebrated N.Y. preacher writes me that it steadies his hand at the helm. A woman died the other day in P. with these verses, as it were, in her hand. They had been the consolation of her life. Pure poetry never affects people in this way, but poetry alloyed with religion does. Burns's best poem, "The Jolly Beggars" is not so popular as "The Cotters Saturday Night." The old people had their favorite hymns in the hymn book -- some verse or verses that spoke to theirparticular case or experience, or aspiration. But the impartial disinterested reader would be compelled to judge the hymns by their poetic quality alone. Because this alone is permanent and universal. This we never out grow as we do the religious views and feelings of the past. The religious thrill, the sense of the infinite, the awe and mys-tery of the universe, is no doubt permanent in the race, but all [crossed out: cr]expression of it in creeds and forms addressed to the understanding, or exposed to the analysis of the understanding, are transient and flitting like the leaves of the trees. My little poem is vague enough to escape the reason, sincere enough to go to the heart, and poetic enough to stir the imagination. Dec 1. The month comes in cloudy and cold. Am writing on criticism, etc. I must write and write and decant my thoughts till it is clear and satisfactory 5 Sunday. Clears off mild after an all nights rain and two cold cloudy days. Mild as Nov. Walk to S.S. in afternoon. Finished Macaulays life and letters to-day. A great omnivorous partisan mind -- not fine but solid and strong -- oratorical, always pleading or arraigning, or eulogizing, alternating from invective to panagyric. Coarse like British oak and loyal and strong. His style antithetic, lucid, sweeping. Indeed he is always the orator, never the poet or the true critic. One of the strangest things in contemporary literary history is that he and Carlyle should not have seen and known each other. 6 Clear and mild, only two or three degrees of frost last night. 8 Overcast, still, hazy, mild. Spend the day at Slabsides with Booth and Lowne. 9 Air loaded with smoke and vapor. Still, partly overcast, mild, mercury 35. Insects in the air. No ice, no snow. I predict a mild winter. -- Soft moonlight night [crossed out: with] veiled with Indian summer vapor. No frost to-night. 10 The river hidden by haze and vapor; the call of wild ducks come up out of it; the belated Troy and Albany boats go by. Crows fly high [crossed out: in] where the air is clearer. Clouds high and slow moving. A mild Nov. day. Sore Soar throat and slight indisposition to-day.Day gets warmer -- 62 at Slab-sides; warm all through the West. The bee is out the hive to-day and that is fatal to the winter. 11 Still warmer and April like, wind S.W. mercury up to 60 -- The Causes of poverty in modern democratic communities? Why, it is simple enough. It is because society is organized on a selfish basis, allowing each man to have all he can get, and some are able to get more than others. It is a scramble in which the quick, the strong, the bold, the unscru-pulous, get the most. Life is a struggle, business is a struggle, and every thing that tells in a struggle tells here. There are only two ways to abolish poverty -- abolish inequality in men intheir endowments and opportunities, or else regulate society as you would a hospital, or your stock yard, or anything else where each individual is allowed only one share. 12 April weather continues. Soft clear moonlight when I went to bed; rain in the morning with a cooler breath from the North. 13 Still April like -- nearly clear; only a light frost last night. 14 Raining this morning from NE. -- J. as he comes up the hill of life on one side, I go down on the other. I suspect I am as near the botton as he is the top. Oh. if we two could have climbed and descended nearer together! -- Is no criticism as much self-expression as poetry? and in the same way. The poet is prohibited from expressing his private personal griefs and joys unless he can easily relate them to the griefs and joys of all men. He must make his experience my experience. His passion must be intense enough and famil-iar enough to kindle the same passion in me. The personal note is sounded in every good lyric, a cry of joy or pain, or aspiration, which comes out of a private heart and goes to the private heart of each of us. The personal estimate in criticism is the real estimate when the personal element is overarched by the impersonal. We prize the flavor of individualityis criticism as much as in anything else, but this flavor of individuality is like the flavor in fruits, it is a subtle quality that escapes our analysis. The universal intelligence taking form in a particular and definite type of mind, [crossed out: that is what we want], and surveying life and letters from a definite stand point; that is what we want. Not Smith or Jones served up raw, but S. or J. clarified, sublimated. The verdict of the disinterested critic differs from that of prejudice and half culture as refined petroleum differs from the crude -- the more personal, accidental elements have been taken out of it (We do not want the crude petroleum to burn in our lamps nor [crossed out: personal prejudice] theheat and fumes of eulogy or invective to read our books by. Criticism must shed a pure dispassionate light. Such it does not shed in the mass of British critics. The light is purer in Arnold than in any man before him Arnold was perhaps the most completely emancipated from cliques and parties and John Bullism of any British critic of his time, much more so than Macaulay or Carlyle in both of whom we get fumes or highly colored lights; highly colored in Macauley, intense and bewildering in Carlyle. We must purge ourselves if we would give a clear steady light. Self-expession, yes, but it must be your better self -- the self that relates you to the best in me and in all other men. 15. Rain turned out very heavy, 3 or 4 inches of water; ground overflowing same as last July and August. Foggy, still, warm this morning, like April. -- Just read Prof Raleighs essay on Style, a kind of invertebrate book, no back bone -- no central idea or ideas from which it radiates. Choice diction, a connoisseur of words, but his ideas are thin, elusive. His flour is too finely bolted -- his matter too sublimated. Or we may say the rays he gives out are too near the violet end of the spectrum; We [crossed out: want] rarely get strong white light. 17. April weather contintues. Cloud and rain sprinkles. 18 Clear, colder; down to freezing this morning. Killed 11 rats in horse stable.19. Clear and sharp; down to 20 this morning. To a Young Writer -- always attack your subject from the rear if you can; that is, approach it from some deeper question, some broader gen-eralization. You shall then find that you overlook it and command all its aspects. If you attack it from the front, or from its own level, you shall find that it will yield to you only the fragments, a piece now and then, but get under it, or back of it, and see how it gives way. You have just read say, the life of Macaulay and want to write about him; so you draw up in front of him as it were and fix your attention upon Macaulay. No, go behind him, fix your attention uponupon some type or principle of which M. is an illustration, and the oratorical type, the great middle class mind etc. and thus get a vantage ground from which to survey him. 20. Cold this morning and [crossed out: read] red in the East. Mercury down to 10. Long, long thoughts of father and mother this day. Fathers birth day and mothers death day. Light snow in afternoon, and warmer. [crossed out: 2] It is curious that Wordsworth should have liked only Burns'es serious poetry -- like "The Cotters Saty Night," his little amatory songs he said we must forget. Tennyson, on the other hand could not tolerate the serous poetry, but liked immensely the little "amatory songs" The moralist chose in W. the artist and true critic in T.24. Cold, clear, windy; down to 9 this morning Julian home yesterday from Harvard. I meet him at Esopus and we walk down the track. How delighted we are to see him. He looks well and a little more manly than 3 months ago. How he blots out everything else for the time being. How I pity those who have no boy to come home from College at the holidays. He is full of the life there. How poetic and romantic it all seems to me. To day he is off a hunding with Jimmy Acker. -- To be roiled up is an expressive phrase. If the river is muddy I observe that it shows the most plainly when it is angry. In a calm you hardly notice it. 25 Xmas; bright, sharp day; a light skim of snow -- mercury down to 5 in the morning; thin floating ice on river. We have our Xmas turkey at 2 P.M. Mrs. Binder comes in the evening. 26 Milder. Light snow nearly all day -- about an inch. No wind. Julian takes a row up the river in PM. 28. Clear sharp day, down to 10 this morning. Julian goes up the river in his boat after ducks. At 3 P.M. I go down to the river and am alarmed at the condition of the ice; vast masses of it grinding on the shore; seems impossible for a boat to live in it. So I start up the river bank hoping to see him coming back. The ice roars louder and louder and jams and grinds harder and harder, and I becomemore and more alarmed. The farther I go the more anxious about the boy I become. My imagination begins to work and I am soon wrethed indeed. At last I reach Esopus dock, but no Julian in sight. But a man tells me he saw him go up about 2 P.M. It is now 4. The man, who is an older river man and duck hunter says the ice makes it dangerous, he was himself afraid to go out on such a day. I worry more and more Darkness will surely come on, and the boy with his canvas boat will be ground to pieces and frozen fast in the ice. I tear on up the river and reach Pells Dock a mile farther up. The I fancy I see him in an open canal of water near the [crossed out: ???] "quarry dock". He does not seem to be rowing, and the ice is shutting up the opensouth of us faster and faster. Bill Obrien joins me and we look and speculate, and try to put in his boat and go to the rescue, but it is too heavy. Then I tear along the shore again and when within a quarter of a mile of what seems to be his boat I shout to him. Just then his gun goes off, and I see he has been stalking a duck, and is not alarmed and in no hurry. I shout to him and he rows along much amazed to see me. No danger he says and laughs at my anxiety. The sun is down and the tide nearly slack. I try to persuade him to put the boat ashore at Pells and come home with me on foot, but he refuses and says he can beat me home. Says there is open water all along shore, as indeed does seem now to be the case, and as indeed allhe found. Nip and I take the road for home; the good level walking is much a change from our scramble along the river bank, that I am less tired than I thought and make good time. At ten minutes to 6 we are home, and a few minutes later J. reaches the dock. I go down and am greatly relieved to see him safe back again. All my worry was vain but I got a big walk and ought to be better for it for days. 29. Down to 4 this morning; trees all feathered out with frost feathers, ice fast. Now at 9 A.M. ice is moving down, leaving a clean open space in front. -- Spencer's rely to Huxley is very pertinent. "If ethical man is not a product of the cosmic process, of what is he a product?"-- Extract from a letter from Mrs Woodworth of St Albans Vt, "I met Miss -- from Boston the President of the W.C.T.U. for the U.S. etc. She asked me if I had seen your paper on the Re-reading of Books in Nov. Century. She told me how she had enjoyed it. She had noticed too what impressed me, the sad note through it all. Why, my dear friend, the pathos of that paper is enough to break ones heart. Did you realize yourself how pathetic it was? As if you had tried everything in life and found it all only dust and ashes at last. I find that note in most of your work now, so sad, oh, so sad." I knew there was a plaintive tinge to the essay, but did not dream it was really sad. It came of the retrospection I suppose; the past is so full of pathos to me.31. Heavy snow storm, about one foot of damp heavy snow from N.E. 1898 Jany 1. Real winter at last -- deep snow and colder; bright day. Julian clears the walks of snow etc. 2d Sunday; down to 6 below this morning, 10 and 12 below back from river. River all closed in front. Julian returns to Harvard on morning train. Expect now two or three days of moping sadness His 10 days at home have been bright ones. He hunted 3 or 4 days, 4 quail, one partridge, 2 ducks. 3 Bright clear day. 4 Colder again, zero this morning. -- In ones thinking how much difference it makes whether he has a thesis to maintain, or is simply hunting for the truth. Only he who is pledged to the truth aloneis a free man. He is disinterested The most eminent example I know of an honest truth-seeker, who yet had a system to uphold, was Darwin. His first service was to truth and not to theory. -- Oh, the mystery of the universe, how it presses upon one at times. It pressed upon me to-night as I walked to the P. O. through the darkness. The stars up there, I here, what is back of it all. My father solved the mystery by accepting the old faith -- this made it all clear to him. But to me, born in a later time, this is no solution; it is a child's dream 5. Fine even winter weather down to 16 degrees this morning. 7. Light rain last night; water on the ice this morning. Prospects of cooler 9. Sunday; bright mild days lately, snow melting, ice wasting, only two or three degrees of frost at night. I keep well and work away at my essays on Style, Criticism etc. "Absurd" I say for me to waste my time on such barren themes, but they haunt me. I can not drop them, and so I keep on. Well, some things are made clearer to me than when I began to write. I have to serve a long apprentice-ship to every subject before I master it. I have to begin at the stump and work up, and the process is a slow one. Dreamed of father and mother last night. This is the 14th anniversary of father's death.12. Still mild spring like weather, only a few degrees of frost at night. Ice still hard and smooth on the river; not much power in the sun yet; two months later at the same temperature how his rays will rot and disintegrate the ice. Madam is passing through the winter solstice of her temper. Nip and I may soon have to take to the woods. Fog and light rain in P.M. and at night. 13. Bright and spring like this morning, mercury 40; a thin sheet of water over the ice which puts a smooth familiar face upon the river. It reflects the shores as in summer.14 As I started out for the P.O. this morning I heard the nuthatch calling in the trees near the school house. When I returned he was still calling, calling. It was only the middle of January, but the ground [crossed out: snow] was getting bare in places, the air was mild and there was the look if not the feeling of spring. I heard the nuthatch with the ears of youth. To have heard him with the ears of to-day, or as if for the first time, would not have been much. But I was a boy again in the old sugar bush at home; the great kettles were boiling, the tin pans glistened at the feet of the big maples, the little new born rills went murmuring by, the air was soft and full of awakening soundsand not the least of them was this soft nasal call of the nuthatch, as it came from the near trees. Why do all such sounds refer to ones youth. It seems as if then only did things make a lasting impression upon us. The call of the bird as I heard it there in my boyhood was a part of the season and it carried that time and scene deep into my heart and became one with them. 15. Still mild, but snowing this morning. 19. Two or three cold mornings -- down to 12 and 14. Much worried these days about Julian. Hiram came back to-day. Stormy weather in the kitchen The domestic furies have worried me the ast week almost beyond endurance. Sleep poor.20. Snow last night, turning to rain, becoming heavy this morning. heavy all day. -- The dog does not know enough to turn his back to the fire to warm and dry that side also. Yet when my dog tries to cross an enclosure which he has entered by a gate, and finds no egress on the other side, he runs swiftly back to the gate by which he entered. He works all around the fire but will not turn his face from it. 23. Snow last night turning to rain, heavy all night; probably 2 or 3 inches of precipitation the last week. Warm to day, 40 degrees. 24. Clear windy and getting cold -- probably a cold wave. 26 Snowed all ngiht; about 8 inches this morning and not yet finished.29 Colder the past two days -- down to 4 above. Mrs B. leaves for Pouhgkeepsie to day. Hiram and I with the Ackers 30. Bright and cold -- 6 below this morning -- the prospect of the ice harvest brightens. Still writing on Style, Criticism etc. 31. Began snowing this morning, very fine, and below zero. Feb 1st The biggest storm of the season; over one foot of snow. 21 inches now on the ground The country buried in snow, and all trains delayed, cold and windy. 2d Bright and cold -- 6 below zero. All roads cho[crossed out:a]ked up with snow. Rugged winter weather. 7 Fine winter weather the past few days, warmer yesterday and the day before, colder to day -- down to 6. Still and clear, air full of frost mist. Ice men opening their canals to-day.8. Start for Cambridge this morning at 6:20; reach Boston at 3,50 and Harvard Square at 4,30. Julian is on the spot to meet me, happy and well. We have ten days to-gether again. I occupy his chums room till Sunday, when I take a room with Rodman Gilder. [crossed out: We] I take my meals with him at the Fox Croft. I like being among the boys, and seem really to share their young eager life. I read in the library here, and many days go to Boston and read in the Athenaeum library. I am soon in excellent health and spirits We dine at the Suters and the Pages, and make several calls. One night we go to Boston to the theatre -- see "The Heart of Maryland" -- poor stuff.19 Last night I said good bye to Julian and this morning at 7 am up and off to Boston; take train at 8,30 and reach Poughkeepsie at 4,50. 20 Heavy rain all night and nearly all day -- probably 2 inches of water. Came up home to-day. 21. Still raining by spurts and colder. Tom Riley died suddenly while at work on the ice the morning I left. I met him near the station as I was going for the train; he was on his way to his work. In two hours he was dead, from heart disease. Rest his soul! 21 Thunder to-day and sudden sharp shower A freshet in the streams 22 Still densely cloudy with spurts of snow and rain 23 No signs of clearing yet, snowing this morning and thawing.27 Fair weather at last, clear sharp air from the north, freezing at night. Blue-birds to-day and yesterday. 28 Still clear and sharp. March 1st Clear and colder, ten degrees of frost -- wind north W. Hiram and I walk up to Esopus to Town Meeting; road muddy, with here and there a dry streak or a streak of snow. 2d Still clear and sharp; clouding up in P.M. 3d Light snow last night, snowing a little yet this morning. Ice on the river slowly moving up this morning. It lifted anchor without the usual warnings. 6 Weather continues fine. Clear bright days and moonlight nights. Ideal sap weather to-day, mercury 42. Sap runs very fast, mercury down to 24 in the morning. First birds slow in arriving. 7 Still clear and fine, perfect sugar weather. First sparrow song this morning. Mrs B returns to-day from P. gone since January 25. 8 Glorious spring morning, soft, hazy, more sparrows. The first robins, a band of 50 or more fly over my head, their faces set northward, as I go to the P.O. They shout out as if in greeting. First meadow lark to-day, seems to say "Come to me, dear," the last word long and plaintive. Boiling sap on the old stove in the open air, and still working on my essays on Style, Criticism etc. 10 The April like days continue, mercury above 50. Sap-run about over; ice nearly disappeared from the river. I have boiled down 8 or 10 pails of sap in a wash boiler on an old stove set here in the wood pile near the Study. In the interval I read Sainte Beuve -- a spirit like these genial lucid March days. Not many birds yet. A college President writes like this: "Experiment and inference are the hook and line by which Science fishes the dry formulas out of the fluid fact. Art, on the other hand undertakes to stock the stream with choice specimens of her own breeding and selection," Hyde. The artis says La Farge, always gives to Nature the character of the lens[crossed out: e] through which [crossed out: you] he sees it. No absolute Nature, the man is always the main question. 11 The wonderful weather continues, mid-April days, milder and milder, no frost last night. Clear this morning. But few robins yet; one black-bird this morning. Sap all boiled in. [crossed out: Was]La Farge says that ten men sketching the same view, and not seeking self expression, will make ten different pictures -- each will lay the emphasis on a different feature. 12 Cloudy, hazy, soft, rainy this morning. Warm as mid April, ice all gone from the river; snow all off the fields. Sparrows singing everywhere. -- What a thorn or sheaf of thorns Walt Whitmam is in the side of Edgar Fawcett. Poor Edgar. I hope W. does not keep him awake nights. I think I have seen at least half a dozen spiteful allusions to W. from his pen the past year, and now in the last Colliers Weekly, he has a long, carefully worded outburst. Think of it. This rude uncouth bard of democracy hailed in Europe as a great poet and prophet and poor Edgar, with his faultless verse not hailed at all! If faultless verse, Edgar, made poetspoets would be as plenty as black-berries. But it requires a man too, and in this respect, I suspect you are not much. 13. The third day born of the S.W. wind -- warm ([crossed out 54 or 5] 66 at Slabsides at 3 P.M.) hazy, cloudy, opaque, vague, dissolving, rain-spirnkles or on the point of dissolving, full of earth odors, full of sparrow notes and songs, (fox and song) melting the snow in the woods, the ice on the ponds, the frost in the ground, [crossed out: the] bringing out the angle worms, the caterpillars and the first butter-flies, stopping the flow of sap in the sugar maples; quickening the roots of grass under ground and causing them to push up the first [crossed out: folded] green leaf, bringing out the toads and frogs and hunting the joyous season of Spring. Phoebe, this morning. Toads and frogs last night. 14 Cooler, clear, breezy, lovely, wind from N.W. mercury down to 34 this morning. Men tieing grape vines to-day. Health excellent all winter and spring so far, mind active and fruitful. -- my out-door and bird papers could only have been written by a country-man and a dweller in the country. But probably my literary critiism and essays suffer from this very cause. They should have been written by a dweller in cities, a mover and [crossed out: ???] among the throngs of books and men. This would have helped to give them snap, decision, brevity, point. The intellect, the judgement are sharpened in the city, the heart; the emotions, the intuitions, the religious sense are fostered in the country. (Is this true?)18 The wonderfully fine March weather continues; nearly clear each day; only a light frost at night. Frogs in full chorus, birds ditto. [crossed out: W] Hazel nut in bloom two days ago -- a great display of masculinity, and a feeble display of femininity. How modest and shy as it were are all female blossoms, the hazel, the hickory, the alder the oak, the butternut etc. How I pity the dweller in town these days. The fox sparrow that I am now hearing, the musical clatter of the juncos, the trill of the song sparrow -- how sweet and inspiring, and the song of the toad at twilight -- that long drawn lulling tr-r-r-r-r-r and the chorus of the little frogs filling all the valley with a maze of musical sound -- what is there in town that can make up for that Yesterday I heard the first highhole announce his arrival -- send out his challenge to the spring -- how it stirs my memory. The fields and open spaces have a sudden new attraction. My thoughts go and scratch with the hens amid the dry leaves; I pick up as much as they do; they nip the short new spears of grass with the geese, they follow the migrating ducks northward; they hover about the farm and garden fires about me; they career away to the sugar maple woods where the sap is [crossed out: dripping] making music in the tin buckets. I have trouble to keep them here at my prosy tasks. 19 Dark and showery this morning with thunder, warm, air blurred with smoke and vapor.22 Quite a heavy rain from S.W. with some snow in the air. More rain at night. 25 Wonderfully fine day. Clear and still all day 26 Some frost last night. Nearly clear to-day, wind shifting to southerly. 27 Overcast, chilly. Grass greening, arbutus just opening. Never knew arbutus to bloom before in March in this climate. In Nature it is the middle of April. -- Kipling [crossed out: is] has a fine talent but not a great nature [crossed out: or passion]. We admire his things more than we love them. He does not quite reach the soul. He has no atmosphere. He is not a great poet, but a wonderfully clever one.April 1st Clear and sharp; froze last night. In afternoon Hiram and I move over to Slabsides and again begin our life there. Arbutus, blood root, and hepatica in bloom, at sunset a winter wren sings briefly in front of the door. 2d Cold, quite a freeze again last night. Cloudy, to-day with snow flakes in the air, and then a dash or two of rain. Clears off at sunset. 3d Colder last night, froze hard, fear for fruit, our delayed March weather at hand My 61st birt hday. Health good after a winter of good deal of mental activity. Grows colder all day with flurries of snow on the Catskills. A severe cold wave.4th Hard, bright, cold, cold -- down to 20 this morning, colder than any time in March. No doubt peaches and cherries are all killed.
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Date: 18--?

Creator: Hendricks
Date: 18--?

Creator: Slee Bros. (Poughkeepsie, N.Y.)
Date: 1878

Creator: Barbour, Violet, Elson, Ruth Miller, Ross, James Bruce
Date: [After 1958]
Text: stores ELLERY 187k - 1958 At the time of her retirement in 1939, Professor Eloise Ellery had served Vassar College for thirty- nine years and had been associated with it for over fifty. Soon after her graduation from Vassar in the class of 1897 she had been recruited as an assistant in the Department of History by Professor Lucy Maynard Salmon, and on the completion of her graduate studies she returned to Vassar as instructor, rising by successive promotions to the rank of profes- sor in 1916...
Show morestores ELLERY 187k - 1958 At the time of her retirement in 1939, Professor Eloise Ellery had served Vassar College for thirty- nine years and had been associated with it for over fifty. Soon after her graduation from Vassar in the class of 1897 she had been recruited as an assistant in the Department of History by Professor Lucy Maynard Salmon, and on the completion of her graduate studies she returned to Vassar as instructor, rising by successive promotions to the rank of profes- sor in 1916. Her colleagues recognized her fairness and good judgment by electing her to major comittees. From 1910 to 1923 she acted as Faculty Secretary, and from 1923 to 1932 she was Chairman of the Department of History. She filled these posts conscientiously and effectively but the consuming interest in her life was the study and teaching of history, and it was as a teacher that she made a lasting impression upon Vassar College. The factual record of her life is slight. Born in Rochester, N. Y., in l87h, Eloise Ellery was the only child of Frank M. and Mary Alida Alling Ellery. Her paternal grandfather came to America from Yorkshire, England. Her father, a rising member of the business community of Rochester, was to become secretary and later trustee of the Security Trust Company of that city. Miss Ellery attended the Rochester Free Academy and entered Vassar College as a freshman in 1893. Her life-long interest in history was touched off by the teaching of Professor Salmon. On receiving her A. B. degree in 1897, Miss Ellery entered the graduate School of Cornell University. Under the direction of Profes- sor H. Morse Stephens, an authority on the history of the French Revolution, she concentrated on the period of the Convention and chose as her thesis subject the study of a leader of the Gironde, Brissot de Warville. Fellow- ships fran Vassar, from Cornell, and from the Associa- tion of Collegiate Alumnae enabled her to complete work for the doctorate including a year of research in French archives and in the Bibliothdque Nationals. She received the degree of doctor of philosophy from Cornell in 1902. Her only diversion, travel, was closely related to her interest in history. She was a frequent, often solitary, and intrepid traveler in western_Europe. In 1923-2h she joined her father in a trip around the world. This ELOISE ELLERY (Continued) began formidably with a close-up of the Japanese earthquake, though not in the area of greatest danger. In Shanghai, through the cooperation of Sophie Chen Zen, Vassar 1919, Miss Ellery met and talked with prominent leaders of Young China about the liberal reforms their party then hoped to set on foot. When the Saar Valley was the warmest political spot in Europe Miss Ellery went there to obtain first-hand information on that explosive issue. In 1936 she embarked on the Odyssey cruise, visiting historic cities on the Adriatic coast, the Aegean islands, and Asia Minor. She was planning a trip through South America when the second world war intervened. She was fortunate in spending the years of her retire ment near the campus in the homes of devoted friends and colleagues, first with Dean C. Mildred Thompson and later with Dr. Jane N. Baldwin. Her erect figure continued to be a familiar sight to the college com- munity until within a few months of her death. The testimony of alumnae who had the good fortune to study European history under her direction is in striking agreement as to the foundation of her suc- cess as a teacher. Said one who graduated in l9Oh: "Her genuineness was obvious. She was true in her own scholarship and true in her interest in her students--sparing no time or thought to understand their needs and be helpful . . . ." Later, when this same student was Miss Ellery's colleague in the Department of History: "I was struck by E.E.'s abilit to stimulate each student to her best, at whatever grade of ability the student happened to be." Another alumna of the class of l9l2 recalls that there was special life in Miss Ellery's classes. "E.E. had a kind of completeness of range and view of a culture that was fundamental to all the rest of her thinking . . . In discussion there was always freshness, point and light. . . It was especially through the long paper that E.E. drew out and expected to be expressed with thoroughness and polish the whole capacity of every student." Out of this effort came the student‘ realization of "toughness and delight of intellectual adventure." Her quiet assumption that every student would do her best is what most impressed a member of e ELOISE ELLERY (Continued) the class of 1919. To an alumna from the class of '23, she was an inspiring teacher, "not personally or through charm or magnetism, but because she embodied the world of the intellect, "the eager search for and love of knowledge and the utter impartiality and integrity of the true scholar." To a member of the class of 1939, the last year that Miss Ellery taught, the intellectual excitement of her classes is still vividly remembered. Each meeting was a drama that involved every member of the group to the limits of her intellectual ability. The discussion was carefully but unobtrusively guided, within a framework of rigorous standards and respect for the contribution of each student. In the hands of Miss Ellery teaching was truly a creative art. Perhaps the best description of her impact on those she taught is that of a Chinese student: "her special gift is to open people's intellectual box, so to speak, and let its contents flow out in a beautiful abundance." She was an exacting critic, impossible to deceive with simulated learning or irrelevant flights of rhetoric, but endlessly patient with conscientious students, tolerant, witty, and kind. There is no better example of these qualities than her exhortation to a careless student: Miss Blank, "When you hoist, hoist!" The class of 1913 dedicated their Vassarion to her as one “who during our college life, Eas kept before us a high ideal of constructive scholarship." This ideal was pusued not only in the classroom and at the conference table but in a wide variety of activities. Through Miss Ellery's suggestions the great collections of sources available in print for the study of European history were acquired or augmented by the Vassar Library in order that students might have the illuminating experience of observing history as it had unfolded before contemporary eyes. Occasionally a class would stage, after intensive study of the sources, some notable historic incident, as the class in the French Revolution reenacted the Flight to Varennes, using Main Building as the Tuileries, which had in fact served Matthew Vassar's architect as a model. Or a stirring debate in the Estates General or the Convention would be presented with fire and fury in an arena in Rockefeller Hall. As faculty adviser to the Political Association Miss Ellery assisted student officers in organizing a model session of the League of Nations which was attended by some 200 delegates from 29 colleges and universities. mores ELLERY (Continued) Miss Ellery's students continued to be her students after graduation. When they returned to Vassar for reunions, or to enter daughters or even granddaughters they would seek her out to tell her what her teaching had meant to them, the rich record it had made on their thinking and living. Nor had Miss Ellery for- gotten them. To those who were especially in need of counsel and encouragement she wrote long letters mindful of their interests and of the little or big things they would like to hear about. She labored long over her letters to two alumnae living in Communist countries. She knew how eager they must be for news from the free world, but knew also that it must be communicated in a way that would not excite suspicion. She had many friends, yet those who knew her best knew little of the years before she came to Vassar or of her inner life. She had an unassailable dignity and reserve. She appeared duly at parties and meetings and listened with amused tolerance to the small talk of campus intercourse, but she never chattered or gossiped. Her time was carefully hoarded for the long labor of conferences, for reading papers, and for keeping abreast of the literature bearing on her courses. Sunday mornings were devoted to periodical- reading in the Library. Lest this absorption in the art and labor of teaching give the impression that she was stiff, aloof, unsocial, it should be added that she was gracious and cordial in manner. She had in reserve a hoard of witty stories which mellowed with age. Her thoughtfulness in calling on new members of the faculty with assurance of welcome was gratefully appreciated by the newcomers. Her courtesy was unfailing. One of the waitresses at Alumnae House, and one of the nurses at the nursing home where her last days were spent, had exactly the same tribute for her: "She was a lady." Beyond the gates of the college Professor Ellery's standing as a scholar was widely recognized. She expanded her doctoral dissertation into a full-length biography during her early years of teaching. Brissot de Warville a Study in the Histor pof the Hrench Revolution, based on eitensive'§tud§ in French archives, was puhlished in 1915 in a series comemorating the fiftieth anniversary of the founding of the college. It is still recognized as authoritative for an under- standing of the role of the Girondin party in the ELOISE ELLEHY (Continued) Convention. But Miss Ellery's heart was in teaching, not in research and writing except as it bore on teaching. During several sumers she attended the Institute of Politics at Williams College. She addressed various organizations on contemporary educational and political issues, and contributed articles and reviews to learned periodicals. From 1925 to 1931 she served as associate on the staff of Current History, her assignment being to provide brie mon y rev ews of political developments in Italy, Spain and Portugal. She was a member of the American Historical Association and in 1915 served on the important General Comittee of that organiza- tion. She was a member of the Vassar chapter of Phi Beta Kappa. In reply to a questionnaire circulated among Vassar alumnae in 1950, Miss Ellery replied to the question whether she would (or would not) choose Vassar if she were entering college then: "Knowing a good deal about Vassar and little of any other college (by per- sonal connection) I am hardly qualified to make any comparative estimate. But after having had an almost unbroken connection with Vassar for over fifty years, I can say that I have always found here an atmosphere of democracy and freedom of speech." This statement may well stand as Miss Ellery's leave- taking 0 Respectfully submitted, Violet Barbour Ruth Miller Elson James Bruce Ross XIV — M47-M50
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Date: 1917
Text: T. TERTIUS NOBLE Two Songs With Piano Accompaniment CUPID’S ARROW % - WINTER _High in F minor Low in L) minor @ Price, each 60 cents net New.Y0rk : : Boston nusoc L}/*IhAnv VAS$AR CO LL EC‘ To my fmend 1i3cz'7aal(lWerrenrntlz VVinter Words by Longfellow V A T- Tertius Noble Lento, molto sostenuto 1’ The day is end - ing, The night is de- A d 8”“ bassa #’ scend-ing,The marsh is fro-zen, the riv - er dead. >>- >> > /\ } 27049 C Copyright, 1.917, by G. Sclzirmer Piﬁ mosso...
Show moreT. TERTIUS NOBLE Two Songs With Piano Accompaniment CUPID’S ARROW % - WINTER _High in F minor Low in L) minor @ Price, each 60 cents net New.Y0rk : : Boston nusoc L}/*IhAnv VAS$AR CO LL EC‘ To my fmend 1i3cz'7aal(lWerrenrntlz VVinter Words by Longfellow V A T- Tertius Noble Lento, molto sostenuto 1’ The day is end - ing, The night is de- A d 8”“ bassa #’ scend-ing,The marsh is fro-zen, the riv - er dead. >>- >> > /\ } 27049 C Copyright, 1.917, by G. Sclzirmer Piﬁ mosso Through clouds like \/ \_/“/ sostenuto flash - es - dows that it tempo 1’ The snow re-com-menc — es, The bur — 8 "" a tempo 13720 ._ Mark no long- er the road to the plain, Z’—\ ".27" While thro’ the mead - Like fear—ful shad - ows, 3 -=-z:/(¢»;=\::<_'ae>;-ﬁ;;.;a.7'a7«a&7&,§..~'Z:; fe S1ow—1y pass—es a fu-n’ra1 train. > > 1’ The bell is peal - ing And ev—’ry feel - ing With— in sx __ re—spondsto the dis — mal knell; ‘.570 /"*3, Sha.dL- ows are trail - ing,______ My heart is be— wail — ing f % And to11-ingWith- in like a fu-rfral bell, > > n'ra1 bell. FOUR SONGS by JAMES H. ROGERS To Felt’: llughu Sea Fever John Masefield James H. Rogers Spiritoso f I must go down to the seas a-gain, to the lone - ly sea and the sky, :11 I usk in 1 tall shlpand A star to steer_her by, wheelk klcknnd the windk songand the white sails_ shah.-ing, > f Copy;-iglt, llll, by 0. Scbirncr PRICE 60 CENTS NET To Miss Geruldxm’ Farrar The Star . wows. W A fragment from Plato Charles F. Lnnums High. in Db Low ;n B], James H. Rogers -K-5:A* ‘YR: semprv R- - inglhemoth . - er shes, - cqyum. um. by no s.s. meme co. ¢'°m"':M 1'": Mr 0< Selim!" PRICE so cams NE‘! “Loves on the highroad“ F. Dana Burnt! James H Rogers Vivace con anima Voice co,,,r.,u, ma, 3., a. Selina! PRICE so cams NET NEW YORK :-G. SCHIRMER Autumn F. Dana Bum“ James H. Rogers Poco Volcé W Swift-ly, my heart, while {adeslhe sum-me-r rose, qfslulaada Speaklhou or love, ere Youlhand Love growcold! The year hath lurnedher face un - to the ngfslcuhmdo . ‘! PRICE so ceﬁf NET BOSTON : THE BOSTON MUSIC CO. Copyright, IBM, by (I. Sclimtr
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Creator: Stanton, Elizabeth Cady, 1815-1902
Date: 1885-12-01
Text: .x%%i~f‘ ‘ / / 2/ I 3" . /4-. ‘ L LJ '7' .3 .&f

Creator: Hester, Andrew
Date: 1550

Creator: Pach, G. W.
Date: 1876

Creator: Chapin, Israel
Date: 1802-07-30
Text: Brothers - I am sorry to hear of the very disagreeable news from Buffaloe Creek that one of our people has been killed by one of your people. Brothers - This news is terrible disagreeable and afflicting, it naturally excites temper and revenge at the first appearance - but Brothers let us reflect & be cool and endeavor to finde out what ought to be done to bring our minds to harmonize & good agreement again - These things have happened and they have been settled, and I suppose it will...
Show moreBrothers - I am sorry to hear of the very disagreeable news from Buffaloe Creek that one of our people has been killed by one of your people. Brothers - This news is terrible disagreeable and afflicting, it naturally excites temper and revenge at the first appearance - but Brothers let us reflect & be cool and endeavor to finde out what ought to be done to bring our minds to harmonize & good agreement again - These things have happened and they have been settled, and I suppose it will be right in this case to take such measures as to have this business reconciled, and that the whole of community should not be rendered unhappy by the quarrel of individuals. Brs - You will consider nothing improper in taking the Indian who stabbed one man & killed one other and placing him in confinement. I consider the white people in this respect justifiable, as he fell on them as a mad man without any provocation as I have been told. Brs - You on your part I trust will do nothing rash or hasty in this business & I hope & believe the white people on their part will conduct with humanity and prudence. Brs - The President of the United States must be made acquainted with this transaction, who will enter into such measures as to preserve our general peace & friendship unbroken. Brs - The reason you do not see me at Buffaloe Creek on this occasion is, The president of the U States has removed me from office & this day my office terminates. Capt. Irvine who I believe lives at Presqu-isle is to be my successor, and ought to meet you on this business, and as his agency commences I suppose it is probably he will be with you soon. Brothers - I should have been happy to have your Chiefs come forward to this place as you proposed & still shall expect to see you, as some business of importance will be left to be transacted by me. Brs - As this is the last speech that you will received from me as Agent of Indian affairs I hope you will pay due attention to it, as no one wishes more for your happiness and prosperity than Brothers your friend and Hble servt Israel Chapin Canandauga July 31 1802
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Creator: Shinn, Walter Scott
Date: 19--?

Date: April 4, 1898 - October 31, 1898
Text: -- We shall probably have to class Henry George with the men of one idea -- or men with a hobby. It is to me, evidence of how narrow and limitted his judgement was, that he should have believed there was a panacea for the ills of modern society -- that he should have thought the disease so simple that the remedy could be named for it, and was within easy reach, -- or that he should have thought it a disease at all, instead of a crudeness, an immaturity. Go in the woods, in the fields, any...
Show more-- We shall probably have to class Henry George with the men of one idea -- or men with a hobby. It is to me, evidence of how narrow and limitted his judgement was, that he should have believed there was a panacea for the ills of modern society -- that he should have thought the disease so simple that the remedy could be named for it, and was within easy reach, -- or that he should have thought it a disease at all, instead of a crudeness, an immaturity. Go in the woods, in the fields, any where, and you see the same struggle the same injustice, the strong oppressing the weak, failure, defeat, starvation, imperfection, etc. Its the law of nature, and is as operative in societies as [crossed out: in] among plants and animalsThere are two ways to abolish poverty, abolish inequality of talents and oppor-tunity, or run society on the plan of a hospital, or poor house, or penitentiary -- regulate every-thing and see to it that all share like and like 5 Like December; light snow from N.E. nearly all day, about one inch; breaking in P.M. 6; Down to 19 this morning and clear. A winter landscape. 7. A little milder and clear. 8. A few degrees of frost last night. Clear to-day. Good sap day. Spring seems picking herself up again after being so rudely knocked down by winter.-- How much more youthful and sentimental and unsophisticated the country was 40 years ago than it is to-day. Think of the popular songs then in vogue -- "Old Dog Tray", "Willie we have missed you" and the many negro melodies Since the War there have been no negro melodies. Life is too serious a matter now with our colored bretheren. The heart of the country is hardening. We have more business, more science then 40 years ago, but less soul and senti-ment. -- Literary or artistic truth appeals to the taste and the imagina-tion, religious truth appeals to the religious sense, scientific truth appeals to the reason and understanding. Emerson appealsto the two first. Huxley to the first and third. There are others who appeal to that rather indefinite or hard to define, sense called the intelligence. 11. Cloudy nearly all day with sprinkles of rain. Drive to P. to exchange the horse. I do not forget that 44 years ago to-day I began my first school. 12 Frost last night but clear and lovely this morning. Water thrush and chippie and bush sparrow yesterday. 14 Warmer -- above 70 yesterday. Still. Cloudy, warm this morning. Shad tree and spice bush just blooming. Sowing the onions to-day. 15 Raining. Go to P. to speak at High School in P.M. and before teachers at night. More rain at night. Julian comes home at 9 P.M. 16 Clearing off and warmer. Reach home on 10:16 train and rejoiced to see Julian. 17 Warm fine day. Julian brings the Primus stove over to Slabsides. Spend the day here, and very happy. 18 Julian and I row up Black Creek. A bright day and cool. J. shoots two ducks; one disappears under the water and we lose him. Eat our lunch at the old mound.A rare and happy day. We return to Slabsides at 6. Find all the early flowers in bloom. 19 Cloudy and cold with spits of snow and rain and hail. 21 Julian and I again row up Black Creek [crossed out: to the] and up into the inlet of the pond. J. fires at some ducks but misses them; to many brush. A raw windy day but a happy one. 22d Warmer. Mr and Mrsd Booth and Mrs Patten up to Weuns Spend part of the day with them. 23d Warm, Cloudy, threatening rain. Expected company from Vassar do not come. 24 Heavy rain last night and this morning; probably 1 1/2 inches. Julian leaves on 10.16 train. Looks well and happy. Come, come, do not be sad over it.-- Ed came down Wednesday and is "doing off" a room [crossed out: f] a guest chamber -- up stairs. Ed adds much to our company. April [crossed out: h] so far has been cold and sour. I have not got much out of it -- yet it brought me Julian for a whole week; is not that enough? Cherry trees in bloom for a day or two. 25. Rain contintues, cold and nasty from the north. The whipporwill Saturday morning, the 23d 26 The miserable rain continues -- rained slowly all night, and still raining with prospects of continuing all day. One of those streaks of weather that make one want to flog the weather gods. Cold, wind N.E.27 Partly clear and a little warmer. 28. Cold N.E. wind continues with dense clouds. 1 P.M. began hailing and raining and continued heavy till sun down. Cold. Cold. 29 Still cold and cloudy from N.E. Storm probably spent. Ed returns to-day 30 A lovely day at last, clear and warm -- above 70. Worthy of April. All day in the woods. May 1st Still fine and warm. Lowne and I row up black Creek. Worthy of May. 2d Cooler with slow rain. Hiram sick. Great news from our fleet at Manill. 6 Rain and cloud confined till this morning. Nearly clear and much colder [crossed out: this] now. Hiram better.-- Some men wield their talent like a tool, [crossed out: like] as the woodsman his axe, or the fencer his sword. They are always equal, they are always effective. With others again their talent is more a part of themselves like their hand, or eye or ear. What they achieve is more a direct outcome of their character. They sustain [crossed out: an] a more intimate relation to it. Their life blood is in it. 13. Much rain and cloud the past week. But little sunshine. Heavy thunder shower last night or series of showers. Clears up this morning. A fine day at last. Hiram starts for Hobart. Orchards in bloom. I go down to Rogers to lunch. 14 Cool night. Bright and lovely to-day.15. The damnable rains upon us again; rained slowly all day. 16 Still raining. Oh for a chance to flog these drunken weather gods! 17 Cleared off in the night after a slow rain nearly all day. Very bright and fresh and lovely this morning. Wind N.W. 18 Cool night, -- fine day. The chestnut sided warbler seems to say, "we, we, we, wee-sir," or is it, "cre-cre-cre creature?" 19. Shower in morning, very warm. Series of showers at night very heavy with much thunder. Mrs Hall and Mrs Segue here 20 Bright after the heavy rain warm 82. 21 Still warm with some cloud. 22 Cloudy 23 Rain nearly all day but not heavy. 24 Warm, muggy, cloudy, with showers in afternoon. This weather is enough to kill one. 25. Rain nearly all night and again this morning till 9 o'clock. Gleams of sunshine in P.M. 26 Still cloud and rain from the North now. No matter where the wind is the rain is sure to come. I have seen heavier rain but never so persistent in May. Every storm lasts three or four days. This is the fifth day of cloud and rain this week, and no signs of clearing 27 More and more, harder and harder, nearly as bad as last July; more cloud, but rainfall not so sudden and heavy. Rained all last night and allyesterday afternoon. Ditches full this morning; water, water everywhere. Came from N.E. Since one week ago the wind has been in every quarter and brought rain from all. No change of wind, or temperature or moon makes any difference; the rain comes, a hell of rain. The rainly season over due in Cuba and Jamaica has apparently drifted North. Paper reports another depression due to-night or to-morrow. 30 Sunshine Saturday afternoon. Cloudy again yesterday with light rain. Clearing and warm to-day. May be the wet spell is broken. How long before we will be cursing the dry weather gods? 31. Lovely day. Go to N.Y. to Whitman dinner.June 1st Lovely day and warm. 2d 3d Some cloud and a little cooler. 4 Fine and warm 5 6 light shower. at 4 P.M. 7 Hot, 88. 8 light shower at night. 9 10 11 12 light thunder showers nearly all night, very little rain, mercury 89 today. 13 Hot, (89). Hiram again groaning with ague. Heavy shower in P.M. over an inch of water 17 Fine weather. Johnson came to-night18 Windy; we go fishing. 19 Heavy shower in afternoon 20 Clear and cooler; lovely day. 21. Rain nearly all night without thunder from S.W. Cool this morning with signs of clearing Rain again this afternoon, but not heavy. 22 Fine day. 23 do. Warm. 24 Miss Emerson comes to-day 25 Hot, we all go to muck swamp to see the cyps. 26 Hot and fine. 27 hot 28, 29, 30, All hot days, above 90. July 1st Hot -- 94 2d 92. 3 Very hot 100 at S.S from 12 o'clock to 4; dry, air like the breath of a furnace. The hottest day I have ever seen here. Our boys in Cuba fighting inmuch greater heat. My thoughts run that way constantly. Rain needed. I fear a drouth. Now at 5 P.M. Mercury stands at 98. 4 A little cooler 92 and 94. I spend the day at Slabsides. The Taylors come over. Clear and dry. In evening Julian and I go down to Taylors. A walk in the cool moonlight at 12. 5 Much cooler; and dry. 6 The destruction of the Spanish Fleet is the one thought and makes every body rejoice. 7. Cool night; bright and dry to-day and getting warmer. Hiram was here yesterday and day before. 10 Cool and dry. 11 Monday, Julian and I start for Roxbury. A cool bright day Reach home at 5 P.M. All well and in the midst of the haying. A large and excellent crop of hay. Drought not so severe here as on the Hudson. How pure fresh and sweet the air and fields seem! Very cool at night, a little frost reported. Curtis and his family unchanged. 13. Signs of a N.E. rain; very heavy clouds with long crooked keels sweep over the mountains from the east, presenting a very singular appearance. In one case a vast mass of vapor is spun off across an open spot to another mass like flax from a distaff. A sprinkle but no rain. In P.M. clouds slacken their speed and grow thin [crossed out: at sun] the sky comes out at sunset they flush and all signsof rain vanish. 14 Much warmer. The storm turns out to have been heavy along the coast and in lower Hudson. A singular storm; wind seemed to come from storm centre. It blew in from the ocean. I fancied the storm was west of us, but it was east contrary to the general law of storms. The clouds shot out from the sea over the land and seemed to lose their rain before they crossed the Catskills. As the day advanced they seemed to lose their impulse and gradually failed. What drove them at such speed from the storm center? I remember nothing like it. 15 Clear and warm. A hot night last night. 16 Warm, tranquil, dry summer days; ideal hay weather. A large crop of best quality of hay isbeing gathered on this farm and on all other farms in this town. To day the boys are mowing and drawing over on the other place. I learned of the surrender of Santiago yesterday. Walked down to the station for a paper. 19 Light shower yesterday and again last night -- relieves the tension of the drought somewhat -- very warm for this altitude. -- A nest of young robins in the maple in front being fed by chipping sparrow. The little sparrow is very attentive -- seems very fond of her adopted babies. The old robins resent her services and hustle her out of the tree whenever they find her near the nest. She watches her chances and comes with food in their absense. The young birds are about ready to fly and when the chippie feeds them her head fairly disappears in their capacious mouths.She jerks it back as if she were afraid of being swallowed. Then she lingers near them on the edge of the nest and seems to admire them. When she sees the old robin coming, she spreads her wings in an attitude of defense and then flies away. I wonder if she has had the experience of raising a cow bunting? 20 The robins are out of their nests and little chippie continues to feed them. She approaches them rather timidly and hesitatingly as if she feared they might swallow her; then thrusts [crossed out: ???] her tid bit quickly into the distended mouth and jerks back. Still hot for this climate. Hiram came up yesterday. It is the afternoon of a hot day of mid summer; the midsummer ripeness and tranquility are in the air. I sit from three to four with my back against a moss covered rock or ledge between two springs at the edge of the woods that cover the mountain where I lookdown upon a broad sun light land-scape many miles in extent. I can see the hay makers at work on nearly a dozen different farms. With my glass I can see a woman apparently raking after the load in a meadow in Mont-gomery Hollow 4 miles away. At my feet about 50 rods below me the boys are at work in one of the home meadows. Ed and By are drawing. By swearing and jawing at his horses incessantly "God damn you, you are old enough to know better than that Get up there, you lazy old Cuss, there is where I want you to go." etc. Julian and Curtis are "heaping up". J with only his shoes, hat, and short rowing pants on. I shout to him this choice bit from Emerson: "Little thinks you [crossed out: assed] bare legged clown Of me from the hill top looking down." Several times I take a drink from the spring near me where I often drank as a boy. How cold and sweet it is. By and by Olly appears with lemonade for the thirsty men. I see her hand the pail up to By and Edon the hay rigging, as they back the team out of the barn. Then she comes to the meadow and serves Julian and Curtis. Her red dress, big straw hat and tin pail make a bright bit of color in the landscape. I hear the rattle of Johnnys horse rake, where, in the other meadow he gathers to-gether what the fork has left. I hear old Wilder barking loud and long some-where below me; he probably has as a wood chuck in the wall. Julian and Curtis finish the heaping up, when J [crossed out: goes] starts for the field around the old house where Johnny is now raking. Presently I see him with all the dogs about him working in an old stone row under a tree. He is after the wood chuck that "Wilder" [crossed out: had] has been baying so long, my glass brings him and the dogs near. He looks more than half nude. I hear stones rattle and see him at work removing them. Presently Nip sets up a fierce barking and I know he can see the"chuck". He fairly spreads in his ex-citement. I can see a white spot where [crossed out: his] I know his rear end protrudes from the [crossed out: ???] cavity in the stone wall. The other dogs move about and leap from side to side of the fence. Once they fall to fighting when Julian parts them. Evidently there is great rivalry and excitement among them. Momentarily I expect to see Nip or T??? or Cuff or Wilder drag forth the chuck but he does not appear, and after a long delay J. abandons the hunt and returns with his fork to the hay field. He shouts to me that [crossed out: the] he has not more time to fool with the chuck, he is too deep in the wall. I take another turn at the spring and start across the hill for the house. 21 Another very hot day. Again I sit on the hill side under the woods and look down upon the hay makers as I did yesterday. Great cloud shadows drift slowly over the landscape and up the mountain sides. The rock is cool at my back; the cooler air of the mountain flows down upon me; it pours upon my uncovered head [crossed out: like] in a gentle current. The dogs find a wood chuck in the ledge near by. Nip goes far in out of sight and barks fiercely. I see the chuck in a crack on the rocks and try to dislodge him with a pole, but he keeps out of reach of the dog. The indigo bird, the vireo and the bush sparrow sing here and there. The spring at which I drink does not seem as cold as in my youth. Ice-water and various iced things sophisticate ones taste. 26 A rainy morning at the old home after three weeks of drought. Began in the night, heavy at times. The mountains are all blotted out as I so often have seen them, fog clings here and there to their sides and top and to the lower land scape, the rain pours steadily, thetrees stand motionless. The boys are in the wag[crossed out: g]on-house talking and chaffing [crossed out: each] one another, or lounging upon the hay. An inch or more of rain has fallen and still it comes down. The barns look wet, the road full of puddles and coursing runlets. The thirsty ground takes it and it tastes good. I know it does. I read Scott, or lounge about or loaf with the boys. 10 A.M. Rain over apparently. A good dose at a good time. A little sparrow here has 4 different songs, one of them suggests the words, come, come, come, don't you wish you were me-e-e? with rising inflection. I hear and see the bobolinks in the meadow, old and young in groups or small flocks, getting ready to migrate. No song now, only "pink", pink." 28 Another gentle rain early this morning 3 or 4 hours. Very warm, another heated term. 30 Curtis and I drive over to Edens. Find him nearly all well again. Hot weather. 31. Hot. After dinner we drive to Homer Lynch's. Homer very feeble. Can hardly understand what he says. He shakes like an aspen leaf. Cannot get up out of his chair. Says he has no desire to live longer. Jane well and getting stouter each year. A sad house no help on the farm. Jane has a terrible hard lot, not a gleam of sunshine in her life [crossed oug: as] that I can see. Yet she does not com-plain. Oh, how I pity her and Homer too. [crossed out: We left] Aug 1st We leave for home this morning, Jane is weeping and Homer, too. A sadder house I never saw. Hot and sticky weather. 2d Julian and I return home to-day. On the boat coming down from Rondout a little girl, 6 or7 years old seemed attracted by me. My glasses interested her, and she took great pleasure in looking through them. She was the daughter of a travelling showman and with her father was going to "New Gipsy" which I found out meant Po'keepsie. There was something very pleasing about her and her frank childish ways. She hesitated a little in her speech, said her home was in Chicago, she said she was hungry, and every time the pilot signalled to the engineer she thought it was the dinner bell. Had I had dinner? Yes. It fairly made her mouth water. Was there no dining room on the boat? No, but she went to look for one. When we were about to leave the boat she said she wished she was going home with me. Aug 2 and 3d Very hot and murky 4 A terrific thunder showerlast night about midnight. A tropical tempest. Incessant lightning and thunder [crossed out: ???] crash and peal. A tremendous fall of rain 1 1/2 inch. Washed the vineyard badly in places. Nearly clear to-day, with prospects of cooler weather. 5 Cooler weather did not come, but more rain and thunder. A brink shower at 6; then rain from 11 till morning. An inch and 1/2 of water last night. Wind N.W. this morning and clearing and cooler. 7 Hot and sultry. 8 with sharp, [crossed out: viscious] vicious shower at 5. 9 Cloudy and sultry, but cooler at night. 10 Cooler with slow rain. -- There is no such thing as chance in the world, all events are determined by law. But with reference to my will and purposethere is chance. If I cast a stone in the dark, so far as my will is concerned, it is a matter of chance where it strikes. I may chance to be on the train when there is a smash up; inexorable law control[crossed out: l]s the event and brought me there, but to my will and conscious purpose, it is a matter of chance. Where the seed born by yonder floating thistle-down will fall, is not a matter of chance. If we could see all the forces that act upon it and will act upon it, we could tell accurately where it will lodge. What seems chance to us is the result of our ignorance and impotence. 17. Still warm and sultry, with lucid intervals now and then A brisk thunder shower last night at 6 1/2 -- One must work at his [crossed out: paper] essay till it is ripe -- till all stress, stiffness, formality, are worked out of it, and ease, and a kind of indifference take their place, [crossed out: so that he] and he makes his point without seeming to aim to. This is mastery -- to do a difficult thing with ease and with reserve strength. 19 The rotten weather continues, rain every day, tho, not heavy, but the air reeks with moisture all the time and the least exertion starts copious perspiration. The very ground will rot by and by. How mushrooms and mildews do flourish. Yet the grape rot seems about over; not serious in my vineyards, but very destructive in many others. Rained till noon and then broke away 20. Clear and much cooler. How long will it last? Hiram returned Thursday, the 18th. No echo of the war in my journal, yet what an absorbed spectator of it I have been, and now that it is ended I feel a great strain taken off me. I no longer rush for the news paper in the morning, nor tarry impatiently at the station for it at night. I shared the popular feeling about it and wanted to see Spain kicked out of the Western Hemisphere. The Spanish blight and mildew have rested upon those fair islands long enough. If the races there are not worthy of liberty and self-government we will put a race there that is. What a brilliant spot the war has made in our recent hum-drum history. Out of a corrupt mammonish time, given over to millionaireism, emerge these heroes, plenty of them, vying with [crossed out: each] one an other, courting death as a bride. How their example has electrified the whole country, and fused us and made us more completely one. It makes us realize that we are a country, it has begotten an enthusiasm of nationality; henceforth we are a worthier and a nobler people. This heroism at Santiago is enough the leaven the whole lump. Oh, war, so cruel, so mad, so destruc-tive, yet how can a nation be knitted and compacted and expanded without thee! It is like the heat that helps make iron into steel. It transforms the baser metals. So selfish and yet so unselfish! It is the plow and harrow of God. It tears and destroys, yet a quicker, fuller life follows. A battle between men is brutal; a battle between nations is often divine -- not from the personal point of view, but from the point of view of history. Spain will ultimately be better for this war as well as this Country. "He maketh the wrath of man to praise him." -- A chimney swift just now came down my chimney with its beak stuffed with food for its young, and was caught by me It held a large wad or mass, as largeas large as a small chestnut, of flies, house flies, and larger flies, some of which were still alive, and other insects more ma[crossed out: s]cerated, in its lower mandible. Thiss mass gave a stuffed and distended appearance to its throat. As I tried to [crossed out: oppe] open its beak, it [crossed out: disgor] ejected this mass and I let it fly away. I wonder how soon it will be back. I hear [crossed out: the] already the impatient chippering of its nearly fleged young. These fell down my chimney last night at 2 o'clock, and set up such a squeaking and chattering that I was compelled to get up and put them up in the throat of the chimney and then stop it up with news papers. The mother bird in her haste or carelessness in some way fell down through or between these papers. 24 Hot wave began Monday. 94 to-day on my porch and air loaded with moisture. Thunder shower last night, two of them. Another to-night nearly an inch of water both nights. A season prodigal of heat and rain. How long oh Lord, or Devil, will it last? Saw vinyards all ragged with grape rot [crossed out: ye] to-day near Highland. -- It seems to me in vain for Tolstoi to combat the idea that pleasure, [crossed out: wor] worthy pleasure is the aim or effect of art. Unworthy pleasure, like that aimed at by much French literature -- no. To convey what one has really felt and experienced to others, that is a pleasure, worthy if the feeling is worthy, if not, then not. But the art is in the manner, not in the matter(?)28. Very cold last night -- down to 50 this morning. Clear and bright. Only a little rain since the 24th. Hiram and Ed topping the onions yesterday. -- Denton told me again of his adven-ture with a weasel. He was passing along the road early one morning between Highland falls and West Point, when he heard something squealing just over the wall by the road side. In a moment a rat came hastily over the wall and in hot pursuit a weasel. The weasel overtook and seized the rat before it reached the wall on the other side. Denton with his cane rushed to the rescue of the rat. He struck at the weasel several times and was dodged. Then the animal dropped the rat and turned upon him, jump-ing up before him nearly on a level with his face and within reach of his cane, its eyes gleamingfiercely. He struck at it repeatedly and was each time avoided. Denton seems chiefly to remember how the little [crossed out: fierce a] murderous eyes danced and twinkled and shone in his very face and he could not strike the owner of them. He began to back off. Then the weasel seized the rat again. Then D. tried stoning it, but each time the weasel dodged the missil. Presently a soldier joined him, and they both stoned it, and finally hit it and mad it loosen its hold upon the rat. It took refuge in the wall and thrust its head out at them and dodged every stone they threw. Sept. 1 Terrific heat all over the country -- began two days ago. Hottest 1st of Sept. ever known in N.Y. 107 at Herald office -- returned soldiers prostrated. Hiram and Charley topping onions. On the shady side of a stake stuck in the muck near them, mercury marked 102. On the porch 96. Clear, calm. This will be remembered as the hot summer -- the hottest three months I remember in this latitude. In the vineyard the grape cutters nearly melt. At night my eyes are inflamed by the sweat -- and not cool wave yet in sight. 2d The day begins as hot or hotter than yesterday. Shower at night. 4 Still in the nineties, abortive showers in afternoon. The clouds rotted in the sky. Great electric display at night.7. Still hot, but the heated term is slowly wearing itself out. Mercury keeps well up in the eighties. Brief shower last night, with much lightning. Muggy to-day with [crossed out: si] increaseing signs of more showers. P.M. Heavy shower -- 2 inches of water -- rained half the afternoon. 8 Clearing and much cooler. 9 Bright and cool; felt like frost last night. 17 Warm and dry for the past few days. Finish most of the grapes to-day -- about 28 tons. Mercury 86 to-day. 18 Hot and dry. 19 A little cooler and dry. 20 Clear, cool, dry smoky Julian starts for Harvard again to-day. Again I wheel his trunk over to the station, filled with the old sad thoughts and retrospections. He is not very well and this too troubles me. How well that childrenthink less of their parents than parents of their children. If it were not so sons and daughters would never leave home, families would never break up and scatter as Nature meant they should. The old cry to the young, "Oh, do not leave me!" But the young are full of hope and courage, and the future and not the past sways them. Until[crossed out: l] they have become parents themselves, and tasted the pathos of life, do the [crossed out: yo] children know how their parents suffer. 22. To Asbury Park to-day., Wife and I. Reach there at 7 P.M. Heavy rain at night. 23. Mild bright weather. The untiring sea, how it draws me. I spend most of my time upon the beach. 29 One week by the sea; weather superb most of the time. I gain 4 pounds in 5 days; then bathe once in the surf and lose one pound. HowI eat and sleep! The sea is as kind and medicinal to me as of old. 30 Back home to-day. Weather warm and fine. Oct 1st Pretty hot, above 80. 2d Bright and warm. 4 Still summer heat. 84 to-day. Wind S.W. 5 Heavy rain last night, over an inch of water. Still hot and sultry this morning with signs of more rain. 8 Slow rain to-day. 9 Bright and cool. 12 Mild weather continues. Fine rain last night in the middle of the night. Bright and warm this morning 15. Pretty heavy rain last night. Windy and colder to-day. Go to West Point and see the foot-ball game. Cold and wind.Pass the night at Dentons. 16 Sharp and windy. A long walk, Stay in P. with Mrs B. 17 Home to-day. Clear and sharp. Our first considerable frost last night. 18 Milder with signs of appraching storm. A gloomy day to me. Headache in afternoon. Boys working ditching the swamp. I burn brush. In evening Hiram and I sit before the fire, with long periods of silence as usual. Hiram soon to leave me for Del. Co. 19. Cloudy, with light rain. A bad night -- headache. Woods getting yellow -- but little orange and crimson yet 22. Rain last nght, about 1 inch. Mild to-day, 66. Clearing off cooler in afternoon. Forests all all golden now, with touches of orange and crimson. Katy dids last night. 25. Bright golden day. Hiram leaves me to-day and goes back to Del. co to stay. As I help him on the 10 o'clock train with his bundles, Lolita Gill and Mrs Strong get off to spend the day with me. It pained me to see Hiram go. Nearly three years has he been with me -- a fragment of the old home. Shall I see him no more coming along the road here? [crossed out: h] or hear his hammer no more in my shop? Spend the evening in P. to attend the 60th wedding anniversary of Mr and Mrs Combs -- Both 82 years old and well and hearty. Especially the woman. She looks about 70. The woman outlasts the man on this home stretch. The change brought about by old age is not so great in the case of the woman as in that of the man. The current of her life goes on nearly the same. She sews and knits and helps about the house. She has always been in doors and she does not pine. But with the man the chane is more radical. He is done with active life, he keeps in-doors, he pines, he rusts, he is useless, and he dies before the woman. Mainly, I think because of this greater change. 26 Rain to-day and all night. Warm 27 Clearing to-day with wind and falling temperature. Miss Segue and Miss Haviland here. 28 Quite a severe frost last night. 29. Cloudy. Mrs B. returns to-day from P. gone 17 days. Prof. Bracq and wife and the Gordon girls here in the after-noon. 30. Cold slow rain. Stayed at Riverby last night for the first.31. I make my last entry in this [crossed out: journal] month to record the death of my beloved dog Nip, which occured yesterday afternoon at 4.40 by falling through the high R.R. bridge over black creek. We went on a walk up the track as we have done a hundred times, I stopped at this end of the bridge to look down upon the creek. Nip passed over. I heard a train coming [crossed out: up] down the track and called the dog back. He came to near the end when he paused and in some way, his hind feet slipped off the tie and he fell through before my eyes. He struck heavily on soft ground, got up and ran crying a few yards, and fell in his death agony. When I got to him he had ceased to breathe. It was one of the worst shocks I ever had, and quite stunned me For a moment the whole universeseemed bereft and my whole outlook upon life changed. I laid his limp body beside the abutment of the bridge and came home in the twilight to pass a sleepless night. When I was not thinking of him I was dreaming of him. I dreamed of sending two girls for his body with a pole to chile they were to tie it. I got the strings and pole for them. Then I dreamed the R.R. men had buried him and had shot him before doing so. Mrs B. guided me to the spot in the road, and I dug him up. This morning I brought him over here in a basket and laid him down once more beside the fire, that my eyes might behold him [crossed out: once more] again in his old place. What a conterfeit of sleep. I did not know I loved the dog so. Now Hiram is gone, he was my only companion. I shall bury him here near Slabsides -- almost a part of myself.
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Creator: Savage, John
Date: 1822-07-26
Text: On back: John Savage letter July 26, 1822 Jasper Parrish Esqr Canandaigua N York Albany July 26 State of New York Comptrollers Office Albany July 26, 1822. Dear Sir Yours of the 22d instant enclosing receipts for Indian annuities paid by you, is received - I have drawn a warrant in your favor for $34. the amount of your amount. - I am Sir, very respectfully Your obedt Servt (Signed) John Savage Compt Jasper Parrish Esqr Canandaigua

Creator: Cooley, Le Roy C., Whitney, Mary W., Wylie, Laura J.
Date: [After 1906]
Text: J WILLIAM BUCK DWIGHT 1833 - 1906 The Committee appointed September 2h, to draw up resolutions regarding the death of Professor Dwight presented the following: Whereas: William Buck Dwight, whose death occurred on August 29, 1906, has been identified with Vassar College as Professor of Geology and Mineralogy for twenty-eight years, serving the College with loyalty, enthusiasm and efficiency, and Whereas: by admirable traits of character as an in- structor and as a man, he maintained the...
Show moreJ WILLIAM BUCK DWIGHT 1833 - 1906 The Committee appointed September 2h, to draw up resolutions regarding the death of Professor Dwight presented the following: Whereas: William Buck Dwight, whose death occurred on August 29, 1906, has been identified with Vassar College as Professor of Geology and Mineralogy for twenty-eight years, serving the College with loyalty, enthusiasm and efficiency, and Whereas: by admirable traits of character as an in- structor and as a man, he maintained the trustful respect of his pupils, the sincere regard of his as- sociates, and the confidence of all who have been most deeply interested in the welfare of this in- stitution, therefore Resolved: that we, the Faculty of Vassar College here- by testify our appreciation of the character and work of Professor Dwight and our sorrow for the loss of an honored associate. Resolved also, that a copy of this minute be sent to the family of Professor Dwight, as an assurance of our sincere sympathy in their bereavement. Le Roy C. Cooley Mary W. Whitney Laura J. Wylie K C I IV 376 377
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Creator: Dickinson, Nancy
Date: 1834-12-28
Text: Elbridge Dec. 28th 1834 My dear Sister It has become my painful duty to announce to you the melancholia tidings of the death of our beloved daughter Nancy. She was married and left here for Michigan on the morning of 5th Novr. She caught cold on her journey which brought on a violent inflammation of the lungs attended with high fever and towards the close partial delirium was caused by the inflammatory action extending to the brain, and on 19th of the present month her Spirit left its frail...
Show moreElbridge Dec. 28th 1834 My dear Sister It has become my painful duty to announce to you the melancholia tidings of the death of our beloved daughter Nancy. She was married and left here for Michigan on the morning of 5th Novr. She caught cold on her journey which brought on a violent inflammation of the lungs attended with high fever and towards the close partial delirium was caused by the inflammatory action extending to the brain, and on 19th of the present month her Spirit left its frail tenement of clay and winged its way, I trust to the mansions of peace and blessedness, her death was as calm and happy as an infants sleep, and we are left to mourn our irreparable loss. While we were daily witnessing the wasting away of my Dear and only son by consumption and thinking our affliction as great as we could bear think oh, my Sister what an overwhelming and heart rending scene of affliction this sudden and unexpected death of our beloved daughter must have been - but the Lord tempers the wind for the shorn lamb. He wounds and he can heal, he mingles comfort and consolation in all our troubles and blessed be his name forever. I want to hear from you in this our Season of Sorrow for I know your family will sympathize with us. give my love to them all, and that you may long enjoy health and happiness is the Sincere Prayer of your affectionate Sister Nancy DickinsonPaid 10 Elbridge M Dec 29 Mrs. Jasper Parrish Canandaigua Ontario CountyNancy Dickinson Elbridge Dec. 1884
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Date: 1912
Text: MUSIC uammv VASSAR COLLEGE "°UGHK££PsI:, new vonn VICTOR KOLAR / or /76 0021/77 1/0)/[6 HATH ITS PEARLS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. .50 ‘VM‘lf‘;}=2";;‘2V"~tl1e German of Heine, translated by Longfellow. BEWARE ...... ................. ............... .. .50 From the German, translated by Longfellow. DO I LOVE. THEE? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. .50 Words by /olzn Godfrey Saxe. Medium Voice in E The Sea hath its Pearls. From...
Show moreMUSIC uammv VASSAR COLLEGE "°UGHK££PsI:, new vonn VICTOR KOLAR / or /76 0021/77 1/0)/[6 HATH ITS PEARLS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. .50 ‘VM‘lf‘;}=2";;‘2V"~tl1e German of Heine, translated by Longfellow. BEWARE ...... ................. ............... .. .50 From the German, translated by Longfellow. DO I LOVE. THEE? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. .50 Words by /olzn Godfrey Saxe. Medium Voice in E The Sea hath its Pearls. From the German of Ee2‘m'z‘c}¢ 1732719 Translated by H. W. LONGFELLOVV. Music by . VICTOR KOLAR, Op. 18, N9 1. Moderato con espressmne. > > f "f ff” 1’ T’ 1’ T’ %.~ — Sea hath its pearls, The heav - en hath its T’ 7 3°23. ~36 my heart hath its . 0 ‘IT *5 2%. mf am pogo pi?) masso Great. sea and heav - en, 6 9% 0017,:/right MOMXII by Carl l’z'sc}zer, N, Y , Tnfﬁrnaﬁnnal Cepyright secured. Yet great-er is my heart, than pearls and stars /K _ {“':—-1-"*5 flash - es and beams my love.. ap]1a.s's z’o7mz‘0 77£67l0 7720830 rd!‘/rm! / am Thou lit-tle youthful maid-en Come un - to my great heart, and the heav-en me1t—ing a -Way with love, and the and the heav- en are melt - ing a -way with love. ,-\ >> m > A FEW SUGGESTIONS FOR SINGERS TAKEN FROM THE CARL FISCHER CATALOGUE 1/am-mar to my mum. Sleep Song. words by Music by .W d d M . b ALICE MATTULLATH. ARTHUR rayon. A_ 5§'L§',,';‘N G":',fBg"_\ 5,8,, vow, in A; Low Voice ill F‘ After Sunset. Moderate can amore. Anda"t°' Voice. h d ~ ‘ me your an bleep,iny liutle one sleep, * , sha-dows round prom - ise you‘lI true’! Give me your heart gone be - yond Continued Copyright MCMX by Carl Pischar, N.Y. - - continue‘; 0.0- lnternntlnul Copyright secured. 1lWBI>l Capyyiglil. MC:\'.‘i l;y[‘.\r " lliternnliulml Cnpyriy 1.: «.m.. Price, 50c. I Price, 50c. High Edition in A (In Low Edition in F Love,s Answer. Sop. or Ten. Shadows F 1y. J. touis Von der Mehden Jr. Op. 18. words by Mum by Moderate, con moto agitate. FRED. G. BOWLES. LOUIS VICTOR SAAR, Op, 69.1] con fu0co_ - Mnderato, con moto agitate‘ "!f i—[ 7I_fd “Yes, my lips to ~ night have spo - ken ./3 . E 1 molln Heart,_ are you hope-ful, now ‘us y do,“- .b’é’ '4 L7 ﬁoco rail. _ L Words I said they should not speak, And 1 mt paw mil. _ V a tempo _. are you ea ger for the fight? Continued . Copyright MOM X by Carl Fisoliei-,N.Y. Cont L‘ ruued ‘ inzanmuomu Copyright secured. Copyright MCMX by Carl Fischer, N.V. lnternutimiul Copyright secured. Price, 50c. - Price, 50c. ? It gives you the most comprehensive and complete news’ of everything worth 0 e knowing in the vocal line; contains splendid articles on the voice, voice culture, ° etc., and is onlv one of the many interesting departments contained in the “MUSlC_Al- OBSERVER,”_A{nel‘iCa’s_fas|:est growing musical monthly. (II Each issue of this interesting magazine is virtually an education in itself, while the music supplement consisting of piano solo and vocal music, is worth many times the subscription price of $1.00 a year. Single copy mailed for 10¢. Adi Yollrglealilr to {how you current issue of "The Musical 0luerve'r._" a musical monthly magazine whose interesting and educational articles on music and inluicinnx, oget er with Ill valuable mun: supplement will prove a constant source of inspiration and pleasure to every teacher, student and musiclnver in general. SUBSCRIPTION ONE DOLLAR PER YEAR—SINGLE COPY TEN CENTS.
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Creator: Notman, William
Date: between 1866 and 1870

Date: 1890
Text: berm RUUQUHO vo_n ZL1rJV(UTﬂ€Tl. 7% % 1 MM °\/\6rb,s by e ryx/V2:b§wortb fqngfellow, l_SWg‘E_r:g_g_9W Pr. 40 cts. LI5\lto ......... ._ Pr. 40 cts. NEw—Y0RK, BERLIN, EDWARD SCHUBERTH &c9 ED. BOTE& G.BocK 23 Union Square. Kgl. Hof—Musikhandlung. [by/yr/‘git 7690 by Edward /Styx/den‘/7 4? (P Lnh An§r.v,C g.f\6der, Leipzig, MUSIC LI IRARY "ix. _, .2 1 Der Pfeil und das Lied. The arrow and the song‘, (Lougf<~I10w.) Allegro . A Mary Wurm . Einst schoss ich ei _ nen Pfeil weit 1 8...
Show moreberm RUUQUHO vo_n ZL1rJV(UTﬂ€Tl. 7% % 1 MM °\/\6rb,s by e ryx/V2:b§wortb fqngfellow, l_SWg‘E_r:g_g_9W Pr. 40 cts. LI5\lto ......... ._ Pr. 40 cts. NEw—Y0RK, BERLIN, EDWARD SCHUBERTH &c9 ED. BOTE& G.BocK 23 Union Square. Kgl. Hof—Musikhandlung. [by/yr/‘git 7690 by Edward /Styx/den‘/7 4? (P Lnh An§r.v,C g.f\6der, Leipzig, MUSIC LI IRARY "ix. _, .2 1 Der Pfeil und das Lied. The arrow and the song‘, (Lougf<~I10w.) Allegro . A Mary Wurm . Einst schoss ich ei _ nen Pfeil weit 1 8/202‘ an arm-Iv 2'/2. — to 1/26 /‘T Erd’ fiel er an fer—nem Ort, Ist sein Flug doch so schnell fell to earth I /mew not where, For so 8102]’! - [y if f/ew,_ Eigenthum dc’ Ve"1"5‘“' W’ 3119 Lﬁndeh St1'chundDruck derRdder’schen 0§ficinmLe1pzig Ed. Bote 80 G. Rock in Berlin. Edited by H- W- NiC11011~ 13439 Copyright 1890 by Edward Schuberth 80 C? N. Y. leicht,"_.: dass kein Au _ '- ge as Ziel er — reicht. Sig‘/It ____.._ could not fol — low it in 278 flzlg/zl. sang ein ed im rei-en a1d,_.._____.___._.__ 1e’s kl-ang,-.1ch, ch V61‘-g'{LSS breaz‘/zed a song 2'72 - lo‘ 2‘/ze air, ______________ It fell to earl/1 I /mew not a1d._____ Wie kommt ein Lied‘? W0 fliegt es hin? Nicht anh ihm av/zere. For w/20 /gas siglzt so /wen a21d8tr0ng,T/mt 2'2.‘ can L, ¢ fol — - gen er h ’ - ste Sinn! fol - /ow I/Le flig/zt of song. 13/L39 P Doch hab’ end—I1ch ch beid’ Long, long (If— l'6l'— wards 2'1; Pfeil au —- be ef found the (Ir - row still 0T680- 13439 treu /zeart
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Date: 1907
Text: six INDIAN SONGS FROM THE “HIAWATHA" HENRY VV. LONGFELLOVV With German text by Hermann Simon VOICE Gitche Manito the Mighty (KitschiMar1ito, der Machfge) . . . . Med. Greeting of Hiawatha (Gruss von Hia» watha) . . . Med. When the Noiseless Night Descended (Nachts, wenn alles liegt in Schwei~ gen) . . . . . . Chibiabos (Tschibiabos) . . . . 4 H5235 OF cH1Bla53'S (Tod der Tschibiabos) Onawayl Awake, Beloved! (Onawal wach auf", Cveliebtel) OLIVER DITSON COMPANY. Boston New York...
Show moresix INDIAN SONGS FROM THE “HIAWATHA" HENRY VV. LONGFELLOVV With German text by Hermann Simon VOICE Gitche Manito the Mighty (KitschiMar1ito, der Machfge) . . . . Med. Greeting of Hiawatha (Gruss von Hia» watha) . . . Med. When the Noiseless Night Descended (Nachts, wenn alles liegt in Schwei~ gen) . . . . . . Chibiabos (Tschibiabos) . . . . 4 H5235 OF cH1Bla53'S (Tod der Tschibiabos) Onawayl Awake, Beloved! (Onawal wach auf", Cveliebtel) OLIVER DITSON COMPANY. Boston New York Chicago Philadelphia C. H. DITSON 8: CO. LYON 82; HEALY J. E. DITSON 8: CO. To Mr. Alexander llememamz PL_1rr:”..i iwd from the 02*“ % DEATH OF CHIBIABOS T1413?-W» “~“-RENO (TOD VON TSCHIBIABOS) HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW E Gerrnaﬂ /ra/1.5‘/Ir/z'rm 51/ Herma/112, »5’z‘mo/z CARL BUSCH Grave the sweet mu — si -cian! He the sweetest der sixl - sse Siin—ger, Er, dur /zwrr _ > > > AJJ SiI1g—erSY He has gone ev - er, He has >50”-geﬂ Hat fiir im 3 [as _.srm1, Hb'-7z,</r CO ' ‘ ht MCMVH b ' 01' D1‘ C ' . PS rllngternational op}*xr‘;:r1;1t§teS((:)\§1re?1mpan3 5 ‘ 33“1‘340 0 J‘ the near — er To go - schwun—ge'n Zu Mas — ter of all Afci — star al - Icr br0th—er; Chi — bi Bru-de1', Tschi - bi 5-83-68400-4 And the me} - an-cho1 — y fir trees Waved their dark green fans a — Und die Fich — ten trau—ernd wog—ten Ue — ber ihm die gr1'i_nen Xe Z-T /\ 5’ /‘\ bove him, WaV'ed their pur -p1e cones a - bove him, Fii-cher, Und die pur—jmr - ro — then Za —j>fen to con- sole him, Min gling with his lam _ en-ta _ tion ihn zu trb' - stcn, Misch ten un _ fer sei - mm VVeh - ruf 5-33-86800-4 mollo grave Their com_p1ain _ ing, ‘ He is Ih — rv Scuf _ zcr, " E7’ 1’-91 fmollo grave dead,__: gone for _ todf,___._; " im_mer uns ver- 5—33—66&0O-4 THE MUSICIANS LIBRARY An ideal series of independent volumes, planned to include the masterpieces of song and piano music, edited by men of authority. Each volume contains an elaborate, critical introduction, a bibliography of the subject, and portrait of the composer. The volumes are beautifully and uniformly bound in full cloth, gilt, price, $2.50, post»paid, and in paper with cloth back, price, $1.50, post«paid. Descriptive booklet sent on request THE MUSIC STUDENTS LIBRARY A series of educational works suited to the requirements of the average student. The books are uniformly bound in ﬂexible cloth, are handy in size, and range in price from 50 cents to $1.25.. The subjects treated are Ear Training, Intervals, Chords, Harmony, Harmonic Analysis, Music Form, English Diction for Singers, Training of Boys’ Voices, and kindred subjects. Send for booklet THE HALF DOLLAR MUSIC SERIES A series of music volumes planned to give, at a popular price, a varied selection of attractive music. The contents of each volume have been carefully chosen from music of proven acceptability. In no other form can so much desirable music be had at the price. The books are attractively bound, and the series includes collections for Piano, Organ, Violin, Voice, Mandolin, Guitar, Cornet, and other instruments. Send for booklet THE DITSON EDITION A new library of approved works, chieﬂy technical, for the Piano, Organ, Violin, and other instruments, and for the Voice. It addresses itself to music teachers and students of dis» crimination—to those who value quality, who want the best. The Ditson Edition claims superiority in its editing, typography, printing, and binding. It is built on the principle—"Not how cheap, but—how good." Send for catalog THE MUSICIAN A monthly magazine devoted to the educational interests of music. Its richly illustrated pages are for teacher, pupil, and music lover. Its varied contents are practical, helpful, and entertaining. Its special features are unique, and its contributors specialists of great reputa» tion. Each number contains at least 24 pages of music. Sample-copy, I0 cents, which is credited if you subscribe. Subscription price, $1.50 per year. Send I0 cents for sample copy and special premium offer OLIVER DITSON COMPANY, BOSTON
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Creator: Wolven, Edmund L.
Date: 19--?

Date: 1826 n.d.
Text: The Commissioners of the State of New York To Horatio Jones ---- Dr. To my service attending as Interpreter from the 11th June to the 2nd July 21 Days at 24/ pr day $63 - Horatio Jones July 2, 1802 Gentlemen please to pay the above sum Sixty three Dollars to Jasper Parrish & you will much oblige Your hum Servt. Horatio Jones Mr. Ezra Lamidien and Oliver Phelps Esq & C D Cooper Commissns of the State of New York Cananaugaras 2nd July 1802Sir Inclosed is a small Note against Richard...
Show moreThe Commissioners of the State of New York To Horatio Jones ---- Dr. To my service attending as Interpreter from the 11th June to the 2nd July 21 Days at 24/ pr day $63 - Horatio Jones July 2, 1802 Gentlemen please to pay the above sum Sixty three Dollars to Jasper Parrish & you will much oblige Your hum Servt. Horatio Jones Mr. Ezra Lamidien and Oliver Phelps Esq & C D Cooper Commissns of the State of New York Cananaugaras 2nd July 1802Sir Inclosed is a small Note against Richard Knight. I understand that he resides in your Vicinity - I wish you would be so good as to try to collect it of him - and you will oblige your friend -10-- John H. FrisbeeDoctor Frisbee letter Octr. 5, 1805 Capt Jasp Canan Nordly Sent TaylorCanandaigua June 28th 1826 Robert White Esq. Cash Dear Sir This will be handed to you by Capt. Parrish One of the Directors of this Institution. Should Capt. Parrish wish for Two, or Three Thousand Dollars, be pleased to Cash his draft on me for that amount- I am very Respectfully Your On a. obt. Servt. H. Willison Cash
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Date: 1803, n.d.
Text: Ontario County Times, 16 Apr. 1897 Among the Indians A Sketch of the Life as an Interesting Character A Friend of Red Jacket Seven years of Jasper Parrish's Youth Were Spent in Captivity Among Several Indian Tribes - His Kindness to them. In the old Canandaigua cemetery stands a plain and unpretentious marble headstone, which marks the last resting place of Jasper Parrish, one of the most remarkable residents of this village during the early part of this century. The truth of his strange...
Show moreOntario County Times, 16 Apr. 1897 Among the Indians A Sketch of the Life as an Interesting Character A Friend of Red Jacket Seven years of Jasper Parrish's Youth Were Spent in Captivity Among Several Indian Tribes - His Kindness to them. In the old Canandaigua cemetery stands a plain and unpretentious marble headstone, which marks the last resting place of Jasper Parrish, one of the most remarkable residents of this village during the early part of this century. The truth of his strange adventures might be doubted were is not for the fact that Capt. Parrish himself has left an account of his life and career. This narrative, which is written in a very graphic manner, is now in the possession of William Gorham, of Canandaigua, a grandson of Capt. Parrish, to whom the writer of this article is indebted for the loan of the manuscript, as well as for other valuable information relating to the subject of this sketch. CAPT. JASPER PARRISH Jasper Parrish was born in the year 1766 at Windham, Conn. At the outbreak of the Revolutionary war his father had settled near the headwaters of the Delaware river in this state, having made a clearing in the forest with his axe, and built a log hut for himself and his family. One summer's day in the year 1778, when Jasper was a lad of 11 years, he and his father, while about six miles from their home, were surprised and captured by a party of Munsee Indians. They were carried up the Delaware to a place known as the "Cook House,"where they were separated. The father was taken to Fort Niagara and delivered to the British, and two years later was exchanged and returned to his home; while the son was given to a chief called Capt. Mounsh, and remained a captive among the Indians nearly seven years. He stayed among the Munsee tribe until October of the year in which he was captured, when his master took him to Chemung, at that time an important Indian settlement. As they entered the village they were met by a crowd of howling savages who pulled Jasper from his horse and beat him brutally with clubs and the handles of their tomahawks until he was more dead than alive. Soon afterward Jasper was sold to a Delaware Indian family that treated him kindly. Nevertheless, he had to endure terrible hardships, suffering severely from both cold and hunger. In the winter when the rivers were frozen and the ground covered with snow, Jasper and the Indian boys were often compelled to throw off their blankets and leap into the water through holes cut in the ice. This was done in order to render their bodies less sensitive to cold. Once, also, he narrowly escaped losing his life. One evening two Indians who were ugly from drink sat down opposite him at the camp-fire, and began to plan how they might get money with which to buy more rum. Finally, one proposed that they kill Jasper and take his scalp to the fort, and obtain the bounty offered by the British for Yankee scalps. Jasper, being familiar with their language, was instantly on his guard, so that when one of the Indians drew a half burnt brand from the fire and hurled it at his head, he dodged the missile, and being a swift runner, escaped into the forest. The next morning when the Indians had recovered from the effects of the British rum, he returned to camp, and was not further molested. Parrish remained with the Delawares until the spring of 1780. During his stay with them, he witnessed their defeat by the expedition of General Sullivan, at Newtown - near where Elmira now stands - and accompanied them on their retreat to Niagara, after the battle. His master took him to the fort, and finding no white man wishing to purchase him, sold him for $20 to a Mohawk chief of some prominence, called Captain David Hill. This proved to be a most fortunate change for Parrish, because Captain Hill grew to be very fond of him, and at length brought him before the council of the chiefs, and formally adopted him as his son, giving him the name of Sne-ed-ah-wah. His life among the Mohawks was a happy one, as he was allowed to spend his time in hunting, fishing and trapping, being forced to do no labor beyond his strength, and was always supplied with good food and cloth- He remained with this tribe five years, until after the treaty of Fort Stanwix, in 1784, when he returned to his family, who were then living at Goshen, Orange county. After his release from captivity, Parrish was little better than the savages among whom he had dwelt, for, although he could speak fluently six Indian languages, he had only a faint recollection of English. He attended school for nine months after his return, but except for that short period of instruction, his education was wholly obtained by his contact with others, and his personal observation. However, Capt. Parrish became very valuable to the government as an interpreter, acting in that capacity at numerous conferences and councils, and officiated at the adoption of the famous Pickering treaty of 1794. In 1792, he was appointed by President Washington interpreter to the Six Nations, and in 1803 became government sub-agent to the same tribes, holding both offices up to the beginning of Jackson's second administration. He removed to Canandaigua in 1792, having previously been married to the daughter of Gen. Edward Paine, the founder of Painesville, O. He built himself a house on the corner of Main and Parrish streets, which latter bears his name, and resided there until his death, which occurred in 1836. Capt. Parrish is described as being tall, slender in his youth, but somewhat stout in his later years, with light hair and mild blue eyes. His portrait is not that of a rough backwoodsman or trapper, but rather that of a cultured and refined country gentleman. He possessed remarkable influence over the Indians of the Six Nations, for he never forgot their kindness to him while he was a captive among them, and acted in accordance with this feeling of gratitude. The Indians not only justly considered him as their truest friend and protector among the white men, but also stood in awe of him. His word was law to them. Even Red Jacket, the great sachem of the Senecas, who bent the councils of the Six Nations to his will, was awed by this quiet and unassuming man. Capt. Parrish used to delight in telling this story as illustrative of his power over Red Jacket. One evening Red Jacket came to his house drunk and in a particularly ugly mood, and when Mrs. Parrish opened the door, stood with his tomahawk uplifted as if about to strike, and inquired Ïs She-ed-ah-wah at home?" Mrs. Parrish, not at all terrified by his menacing looks and gestures, replied, "He is here, and is looking at you now." Instantly Red Jacket lowered his tomahawk, and became sobered and subdued. In later years some of the Oneida and Onondaga Indians, wishing to show their affection for Capt. Parrish, were accustomed to make a visit to him once or twice a year, and even after his death these simple-hearted and and affectionate Indians appeared at the house of his daughter, saying, "We come to see Sne-ed-ah-wah's papoose." And thus these friendly visits to his children and grandchildren continued until about ten years ago, when they finally ceased. As death drew near Jasper Parrish might well look back upon his career with a feeling of satisfaction not unmixed with pride. He had labored the greater part of his life to improve the deplorable condition of his dark-skinned brethren; he had brought to bear upon them every christianizing and civilizing influence possible, and had lived to see his efforts crowned with a considerable degree of success. Henry W. Hamlin.Canandaigua, N. Y., Wednesday, June 21, 1922 A Table With a History Shown in the Museum Once the Property of Jasper Parris, the Government Indian Interpreter - Stood in His Kitchen. In the "Old Fashioned Kitchen" in the Historical Society's building in Canandaigua, is an old cherry table, about whose battered top and rickety legs cling memories of the days when white settlers were driving their first stakes in what had only recently been an unknown wilderness. The table was once the property of the Government Indian interpreter, Captain Jasper Parrish, as is authentically known, and standing as it did in the kitchen of his house in Canandaigua in the last years of the eighteenth century and the first years of the nineteenth could recite, had it the gift of speech, many a tale of romance [Parrish's Table Appears in the Foreground of This Picture.] and adventure. Around its capacious top on more than one occasion there gathered the sachems of the Six Nations, assembled to receive the agreed annuities, and there smoked the pipe of peace with the doughty captain, partook of his venison, or not unlikely imbibed from the "big kettle" of rum, whose presence was considered in those days necessary to the successful issue of every social entertainment or solemn conclave in which the susceptible sons of the forest participated. The story of Jasper Parrish has never been fully told and never will be until a writer, gifted with imaginative power, has filled out the skeleton of known facts, regarding his life with the flesh of tradition and clothed with romance. He left a personal record written in his old age but it is a bare statement of facts and to an unimaginative reader would yield small interest. But to a boy, who needs no aid of picturesque language to realize what six years of captivity among the Indians must have contained of hard [Captain Jasper Parrish. Spent Six Years in Captivity among the Indians.] experience and stirring adventure, the simple narrative unfolds a tale of absorbing interest. Jasper Parrish the manuscript relates, was at work in the field with his father about six mils from their home, at the headwaters of the Delaware river in this State, when surprised and captured by a small party of Monsee Indians. This was on the 5th of July, 1778, when Jasper was eleven years old. Father and son were taken by their captors up the Delaware river to an Indian settlement, called Cookhouse. Ten days later the father was separated from his son, taken to Fort Niagara, and there surrendered to the British. Two years afterwards he was exchanged as a prisoner of war and he then returned to his family. Captain Mounsh took the boy Jasper to his family and left him with them while he was absent for extended periods. Jasper was kindly treated and relates that at one time, when very ill with dysentery, he was urged by his custodians to try certain Indian remedies. At first he refused, fearing poison, but then took the herb syrup offered and was at once relieved. They threatened, however, to take his scalp bye and bye, and so he was kept in a state of apprehension. On October 1, Jasper set out with his master for Chemung. Upon arriving there he was surrounded by Indians, greeted with the scalp halloo, "qua-qua!", torn from his horse and beaten until his body was covered with bruises. Then his master interfered, crying Ït is enough!"A few days later, Jasper was sold to a Delaware Indian family for $20, and taken to the south side of the Tioga river. His old master was killed a few days later in a drunken brawl at Fort Niagara. Young Parrish remained on the Tioga river during the winter and spring of 1779, suffering much from cold and hunger. His food consisted of venison, wolf, dog, fox and muskrat meat, and occasionally a wild bird with a 'little corn.' The fact that there was no salt for the food occasioned him much discomfort. He was compelled to follow the example of the Indian boys and jump through a hole in the river ice into the frigid water. This, he was told, would harden him. He had to do it repeatedly and in the coldest weather. At one time during a hunting expedition, his Indian companions ran out of lead from which to make bullets but to his surprise, after a short absence from camp, they came back with a quantity of ore, from which by a crude smelting process they secured some twelve pounds of good lead. He seldom heard an English word spoken but learned to speak the Indian language with facility. Jasper was at this place on the Tioga river when General Sullivan's army marched through the Iroquois country and was with the squaws and young Indians when the …… treated after the battle of Newton, and met them at Painted Post. Parrish afterward proceeded with the Indian party, by way of Bath and Geneseo to Fort Niagara, then the British post. Mr. Parrish records that at one time the Indians gathered at the Fort engaged in a drunken frolic that resulted in the death of five of them, and more would have been killed if the chiefs had not interfered. The boy learned here that the British were offering a guinea bounty for every Yankee scalp brought in, and he adds that he was afterwards informed that the main purpose of this offer was to induce the Indians to disperse as they were becoming troublesome. As he was resting near a campfire one night with a couple of the Indians, he overhead them form a plan for taking his scalp and selling it to get money with which to buy rum. Thus warned, he watched his companions and when he saw one of them take a half burned stick from the fire and hurl it at his head, he was able to avoid a deadly blow by a quick jump, and escaped into the neighboring bushes. He remained outside until morning, when the Indians had sobered up and he could safely return. His master offered to sell Jasper to the white people at the Fort, but none would buy. Finally a fine looking Mohawk, named Captain David Hill, bought him for $20. Hill lived near the fort, and, becoming a member of his family, Jasper was compelled to learn the Mohawk language, which was entirely different from the Delaware. The change of masters proved fortunate, however, and he lived with Captain Hill's family for more than five years, being provided in the meantime with all the necessary clothing and with abundance of food. He passed his time in hunting, fishing and working, but says he was never compelled to do work beyond his strength. In November, 1780, the chiefs of the Six Nations held a council at Fort Niagara and Captain Hill took his prisoner into the midst of the gathering and formally adopted him into his family as his son. A large belt of wampum was placed about his neck and other ceremonies observed. Jasper moved with his Indian father, the following May, to the site now occupied by Lewiston and there he continued to dwell with the family until the close of the Revolutionary War. He traveled with Captain Hill in the meantime among other tribes, and testifies that he was invariably treated kindly and granted many favors. In September, 1784, at a treaty of peace between the United States and the Six Nations, made at Fort Stanwix (now Rome, N. Y.), the Indians promised to release all their white captives. There were ninety-three of these, young Parrish among them, and in November of the same year he was taken to Fort Stanwix and given his liberty. He immediately sought out his family, whom he found living at Goshen, Orange county. Mr. Parrish says that upon thus returning to civilization he found that he could hardly make his friends understand him, he spoke such broken English. He was thereafter able to spend only nine months in school and with that exception was entirely self-taught for his intercourse with the world. In November, 1790, Mr. Parrish was requested by Colonel Timothy Pickering, United States Government Commissioner, to act as interpreter at a council to be held with the Indians at Tioga Point. Later, in July, 1791, he acted in the same capacity at a council at Newton Point, near Elmira. Earning commendation for the faithful and accurate manner in which he rendered the Indian language into English, he was appointed in April, 1792, as standing interpreter for the Six Nations and instructed to reside at Canandaigua, under the direction of General Israel Chapin, the Government agent. He acted as the chief interpreter at the great Pickering council at Canandaigua in 1794. In 1803, after serving as interpreter for thirteen years, Mr. Parrish was made sub-agent also, and he continued to hold both offices through successive administrations, until President Jackson's second term. Mr. Parrish in his work with the Indians, we are told, endeavored to inculcate habits of industry and to instruct them in agricultural pursuits and the use of property. He states that these endeavors found a friendly disposition among the Indians, except on the part of Red Jacket, the famous Seneca orator, and that they welcomed the coming of missionaries and school masters. Under his instruction and with supplies furnished by the Government, they were enabled to raise a surplus of grain and live in comparative comfort. But Red Jacket continued to oppose all innovations, declaring that they were created Indians and they should remain Indians. He never would relinquish the Pagan habits and customs. Captain Parrish, an excellent painting of whom hangs in the gallery of pioneers in the Court House in Canandaigua, died in this town in 1836, and his remains were interred in the pioneer cemetery here, where a headstone, still standing, marks his grave. C. F. M.Transcript, Saturday, November 21, 1931 A Famous Salemite Goes to the Block Colonel Timothy Pickering (1745-1829) - By Gilbert Stuart Timothy Pickering was a son of Timothy and Mary Wingate Pickering of Salem, Mass. He was graduated from Harvard in 1763 and was admitted to the bar in 1768. In 1776 he married Rebecca White. In 1777 he joined Washington's army at Morristown, N. J. The Commander-in-Chief soon appointed him adjutant general. In 1780 he succeeded General Green as quartermaster general, which office he resigned in 1785. He settled in Philadelphia for a time, but returned to Massachusetts in 1801, and became a United States senator and a member of Congress. He died in Salem, Mass. His "life" was written by his son, Octavius Pickering, completed after the latter's death in 1868, by Charles W. Upham, and published in four volumes in Boston, 1867-73. Stuart's portrait of Colonel Pickering is included in a collection of fourteenth to nineteenth century paintings from The Ehrich Galleries to be dispersed at auction at the American Art Association Anderson Galleries (New York city) this evening.Friday, February ?th, 1803. Thomas Jefferson, President of the United States of America To all to whom these presents shall come, Greeting. Whereas a treaty was held on the 30th day of June under the authority of the United States with the Seneca nation of Indians, at Buffaloe creek in the county of Ontario and state of N. York, and at the said treaty in the presence of and with the approbation of John Taylor, Esqr. a commissioner of the United States, appointed to hold the same, an Indenture or agreement was entered into between the said nation of Indians & Wilhem Willink and others hereinafter mentioned, which indenture or agreement is in the words following: This Indenture made the 30th day of June, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and two: Between the Sachems, chiefs and warriors of the Seneca Nation of Indians of the first part, and Wilhem Willink, Peter Van Eeghen, Hendrick Vedenhoven, W. Willink the younger (son of Jan) Jan Gabriel Van Staphorst, Roelof Van Staphorst, the younger, Cornelius Vollenhaven an Hendrick Seye, all of the city of Amsterdam and Republic of Batavia, by Joseph Ellicott, Esuire, their agent and Attorney of the second part. Whereas, at a treaty held under the authority of the United States with the said Seneca nation of Indians, at Buffaloe creek in the county of Ontario and state of New-York, on the day of the date of these presents by the honorable John Taylor, Esquire, a commissioner appointed by the President of the United States to hold the same in pursuance of the constitution, and of the act of Congress of the United States in such case made and provided, a convention was entered into in the preference and with the approbation of the said commissioner between the said Seneca nation of Indians and the said Wilhem Willink, Peter Van Eeghen, Hendrick Vollenhoven, W. Willink the younger, I Willink the younger (son of Jan) Jan Gabriel Vanstaphorst, Roelof Van Staphorst the younger, Cornelius Vollenhoven and Hendrick Seye, by the said Joseph Elicott their agent and attorney, lawfully constituted and appointed for that purpose. Now this Indenture Witnesseth, That the said parties of the first part for and in consideration of the lands hereinafter described do hereby exchange, cede, and forever quit claim to the said parties of the second part, their heirs and assigns, All those lands situate, lying and being in the county of Ontario and state of New-York, being part of the lands described and reserved by the said parties of the first part in a treaty or convention held by the honorable Jeremiah Wadsworth, Esquire, under the authority of the United States on the Genesee river the 15th day of September, 1797, in the words following, viz. Beginning at the mouth of the eighteen mile or Kogh-quaw-qu creek, thence a line or lines to be drawn parallel to lake Erie, at the distance of one mile from the lake, to the mouth of Cataraugos creek, thence a line or lines extending twelve miles up the north side of said creek at the distance of one mile therefrom, thence a direct line to the said creek, thence down the said creek to lake Erie, thence along the lake to the first mentioned creek, and thence to the place of beginning. Also one other piece at Cataraugos, beginning at the shore of lake Erie on the forth side of Cataraugos creek, at the distance of one mile from the mouth thereof, thence running one mile from the lake, thence on a line parallel thereto to a point within one mile frm the Con-non-dan-we-gea creek, thence up the said creek one mile on a line parallel thereto, thence on a direct line to the said creek, thence down the same to lake Erie, thence along the lake to the place of beginning; reference being thereunto had willfully appear. Together with all and singular the rights, privileges, hereditaments and appurtenances thereunto belonging, or in any wife appertaining. And all the estate, right, title and interest whatsoever of them, the said parties of the first part, and their nation of, in and to the said tracts of land above described, to have and to hold all and singular the said granted premises, with the appurtenances, to the said parties of the second part, their heirs and assigns, to their only proper use, benefit and behoof forever. And in consideration of the said lands described and ceded as aforesaid, the said parties of the second part, by Joseph Ellicott their agent and attorney as aforesaid, do hereby exchange, cede, release and quit claim to the said parties of the first part and their nation (the said parties of the second part reserving to themselves the right of pre-emption), all that certain tract or parcel of land situate as aforesaid. Beginning at a post marked No. ), standing on the bank of lake Erie at the mouth of Cataraugos creek, and on the north bank thereof, thence along the shore of said lake N. 11 E. 21 chains, east thirteen degrees east 45 chains, N. 19 E. 14 chains 65 links to a post, thence east 119 chains to a post, thence south 14 chains 27 links to a post, thence east 640 chains to a post standing in the meridian between the 8th and 9th ranges, thence along said meridian fourth 617 chains 75 links to a post standing on the south bank of Cataraugos creek, thence West 150 chains to a post, thence north 290 chains 25 links to a post, thence west 482 chains 31 links to a post, thence north 219 chains 50 links to a post standing on the north bank of Cataraugos creek, thence down the same and along the several meanders thereof to the place of beginning. To hold the said parties of the first part in the same manner and by the same tenure as the lands reserved by the said parties of the first part in and by the said treaty or convention entered into on Genesee river the 15th day of September, 1797, as aforesaid, were intended to be hed. In testimony whereof the parties to these presents have hereunto, & to two other indentures of the same tenor & date, one to remain with the United States, one to remain with the said parties of the first part, and one other to remain with the said parties of the second part, interchangeably set their hands and seals the day and year first above written. Con-nea-ti-a, his mark, x Koe-en-twah-ka, or Cornplanter, his mark, x Wou-dou, gooh-ka, his mark, x Te-kon-nou-du, his mark, x Sa-gee-yes, his mark, x Jaw-ye-car-na, or Blue Sky, his mark, x Koying-quau-tah, or Young King, his mark, x Ka-oun-doo-wand, or Pollard, his mark, x Con-na-wau-de-an, his mark, x Soo-noo-you, his mark, x Au-wen-?-sa, his mark, x Soo-geo-ya-wan-law, or Red Jacket, his mark, x Cosh-kau-tough, his mark, x Te-yo-kai-hos-sa, his mark, x Ona-ya-wos, or Farmers Brother, his mark, x So-nau-goi-es, his mark, x Gish-ka-ka, or Little Billy, his mark, x Sux-sa-bo-wau, his mark, x Wilhelm Willink, Pieter Van Eeghen, Hendrick Vollenhoven, W. Willink, the younger, I. Willink the younger (son of Jan) Jan Gabriel Van Staphorst, Roelof Van Staphorst, the younger, Cornelius Vollenhoven, and Hendrick Seye, by their Attorney. (L. S.) Joseph Ellicott. In testimony whereof, I have caused the Seal of the United States to be hereunto affixed, and signed the same with my hand. Done at the City of Washington, the (L. S.) twelfth day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and three, and in the twenty seventh year of the Indiependence of the said United States. TH: Jefferson. By the President, James Maddison, Secretary of State. IRON WORKS. The subscriber would rent a set o works, situated within twenty miles of the boatable waters of James River; consisting of Furnace, Forge, Mill, Saw-mill, and every necessary appendage, all new and finished in the completest manner of any in America; having abundance of water, wood, and ore of the best quality, and lying in a healthy country where provisions also are abundant and cheap. Fifteen or twenty able negroes may be rented with the works, if specially applied for. Ferdinando Fairfax. Shanr. Hill, near Charleston, Virginia. N. B. Applications by letter must be postpaid. January 28. 1aw6w
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Creator: Stanton, Elizabeth Cady, 1815-1902
Date: 1889
Text: Q r’ f ‘ :_«.;sm«,,«;g,»,»a.~i¢ %% Deer Mrs ﬁolloway I cannot meet you at Brigaten Beach. I am sorry to lose the many pleasures you offer but I have hurt my knee e walking is difficult; I hope Miss Anthoﬁy will make a pleasant speech & that your last meeting will go off successfully with Kinﬁ regards Sincerely yours Elizabeth Caéy Stanton Tuesday morn

Creator: Lawrence, Margaret Stanton
Date: n.d.
Text: 12 iega, Neeport,"¥eshington, Europe, or even to come here. My tee youngest ehilﬁreng "with tee feithful nurses, are at the Deleven House, and when I have ecsomplished m mission we shall all go home together“. CQO*I3CQC90OI80CO%0$‘O$§C Picture of Mother and $at‘)L1E-Ienry 1854 ncooaoacaoulocacntuot 90 no to on on an 0%‘ nu» to so do on no 03 I34! are $0 mi My mother never knew what mischief she would find had been done by her four lively boys during her absence on errands in the...
Show more12 iega, Neeport,"¥eshington, Europe, or even to come here. My tee youngest ehilﬁreng "with tee feithful nurses, are at the Deleven House, and when I have ecsomplished m mission we shall all go home together“. CQO*I3CQC90OI80CO%0$‘O$§C Picture of Mother and $at‘)L1E-Ienry 1854 ncooaoacaoulocacntuot 90 no to on on an 0%‘ nu» to so do on no 03 I34! are $0 mi My mother never knew what mischief she would find had been done by her four lively boys during her absence on errands in the village. Her second see, Henry, then nine years old, was quite an inventor, and on one occasion, as she Wes walking home by the river road, she was greeted with a shout from.a boat full of beys in the water, "oh: mother, it works, it works perrectlyi" 3 "What works?" she called out. thwy life preserver", the boy answered. ,, And, to her horror, there was her fourth son, Theodcre, sheet a year, 44v/u~/Lo4u4¢¢é ‘twee: e1d,'eith the life preserver fastened under his arms, splashing about in the'Water, as blue as indigo. The child, accustomed to a cold bath every morning in a large tb, seemed to be enjoying it also. After the rescue of her baby, the youthful’ inventor was shown the error of his eeys in the privacy of his room.and forbidden to take the baby out of the yard. While the nurses were busy laundering the babies‘ clothes, mother paid the older boys to Wheel us younger chi1&ren about our spacious grounds in our eerrieges.% Shortly after the foregoing performance, mother was retaking from church‘With a friend, when suddenky she said, "Look up on that chimey, Mrs. Stenteni” And then(she beheld her baby seated on the chimney top with the inventor 13 standing beside himm hmether quietly-slipped up stairs, out on the roof and rescued her son Theodore. da‘ﬁriter Sﬁ/anion as Mr. In speaking of our mether, my sister, Harriet Stantoﬂ Bleteh, seyezd “From.185d on, one able argument followed another. Mrs. Stanton wielded a trench- ant pen, and she'eee the author of all the ‘§£E§2_Eepers‘ Lhat marked, and honeurw ably marked, the development of the suffrage movement in America. The ringing calls to suffrage conventions were the work of her hand; the appeals to Legislatures and to Congress, the legal arguments addressed to jurists, came from her pen. She was a bri11iant'writer and an able speaker". acooooocooooooococoootuo GICOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO 0000 no to an to at 00 can Ooooioooooonacoooocoooob B; gnzmgy, At one time mother was much troubled at the“weyh her boys swere, so she took council with sweet little Lucretia Mott, who was her guest, and withZMise Anthony. After same thought Mrs. Mott suggested that mother, Susan, and she all“ swear at table and see if that wouldn‘t shame the boys out of their bad habit. So When.the family gathered for the next meal, Lucretia, in her trim white Quaker cap and ‘kerehief, said: “Elizabeth, may I give thee some of this damn chicken?“ The C‘UGOOCIOﬁ¢.l>£IOGCCC..II “ OOIOGIIOOOOOIOGGOOQ 3 3 Ll : ¢_ 9, ‘:5 O I *3‘ 0 o 3 § 2; Q" ‘ 3 '3» 414,, ‘V . ’ ‘ Q .. I. Q ‘ r I .AHvl . u "ﬁr: _ v. . . J ~. OiuC0«§00ODOi!eOOODO3§Q ..t3m3...§ ‘warmest friends in Seneca.Fa1ls were an Episcopal c1ér§§madf:;:% 14 boys all looked amazed,'buﬁ, as none of the laidea cracked a smile, and as the oathﬁ from.the ldps of the three wnmedrflew thick and fast, the youngsters joined in and enjeyed ﬁhe fun. This was kept up for three malss at the fourth msal, howavarg doma distinguished guests were pfeseni, who had been let into the secret” The oaths Still fell from.the lips of nether, Lucretia, dud Susan, but wheﬁ %hey'were uﬁtered the gentleman jumped a little and looked horrified, but never smi1ed.ur spoke. just A'word of'exp1anatio here: the servant problammwas as rampani ix those days as ncw, and as mother entertained oonstaﬁtly and desired her repasts well served, she had trained her three oldasi boys to'wait on ﬁable. They had white suits, were paid for their services, and took great pride in doing it to the bes£.af their ability. V To return to the story: 'fEé boys'were distressed, as they servsd the guests, to see the look of disapproval on Governor Seward‘s and Gerrit Smith’$ faces as their hostess and her two Quakér friends ripped out their oaths. So when ihey got their mother alone, they gathered around her and with tears in their eyes said: "Oh, mother, what will the Governor and Cousin Gerrit think, hearing you Swear like thaﬁ?” "W611", she said, "you boys all do it, and so we £hought‘we would also; don‘t you like to hear us?" “Oh, no, other,“ they replied, with the tears running dawn their cheeks. “Oh, v9ry‘We1l," she said, her arms about two cf the lads as thay leaned against her, while the third boy sat on a stool ai her feet with his head in her lap, “If you boys will stop swearing, I will alsa.” And they did. Mrs. Stanton and the Clergz Mw'mpther always had many friends among the clergy; théy seemed ta delight in.having arguments with her on the s‘her:fof woman. Among the fdmi1y‘s ‘ (I; ,5, V 1 A y ‘ 56 .~xw'» _. 4 " . ’ girls of his brood and the bays of her‘s were devoted to each oﬁher. ’Hbther, at one time, asked her;%gys'which church they would rather 1 attend. Their answar was: “Oh, let’s take a paw in the church where tha clergy» 154 men Wears e nightgown end mentilla". iSo they all went to the Epieoopel Shuroh. At this time the laying of the first Atlantic Ceble'wes under disous» sion. The Rev. Mr. G. ardently maintained that it could never be done, while mes. Stanton as positively said that it could. She said: ~"Whatever the humeh mind oen eonoeive can be oarried out", - the tenor of her argument showing olearly the stti~ tude ofimind she held on all new ideas. Too Much for a Bishop 4 One day the Bishop of the Diocese of‘Western New York, the Rev. Mr, Sex, was calling on my mother; he was violently opposed to the ballot for “ladies”, ahd'eas holding forth on the disabilities of women as a bar to their having the vote. “dhy, Bishop Cox“, exclaimed mother, "I didn‘t know that women had any dise abilities; pray mention them." “Well”, he said, "surely motherhood is a disability, Mrs. Stanton." "On the contrary, Bishop", she quickly answered, "motherhood is an added glory to womn. It is something that you men cannot do, - give birth to an immortal soul: If it be a disability, why does your church, the whole world around, celebrate the Magnifioat every Sabbath morning glorifying motherhood?”' "Y~e~s,3re~s”, ow ~t&4r¢ said the Bishop, hesitatingly, "that is true, Mrs. Stanton. I neveoriﬁeeoaihy ’ if c, in that light before. But - you must admit that your skirts are a disability." “Ry, Bishop"; quickly answered my mother, "we are not born with skirts on. ‘we lay them.off whenever we choose. And I notice that when you on go into the pulpit you put on flowing robes, and so do the Judges of the Supreme Court before they take their pleoes on the bench. This is done to give added dignity to the position.” “Y¥e-s, y-e—s," reluctantly drawled the Bishop, “I never looked at it from.thet angle before. I think you may be right.” Finally, with a hearty laugh and throeihg his head book, he said: "I think there is no use in.my trying to argue'With you, dear lady; we would better discuss arti” Mos; Stanton's Powers of Conversation In a biogrephioal sketch of ow'Hwther, ritten by one of the ost o brilliant neeseeper men of her day, I find the following: “Her gift of gifts is o eonveesstion, Her throne of queeoship is not the offioiel oheir of the ﬁomee’s Eigsts Conveetion,{thougn she eleeys presides with dignity end ease), tut is rather a seat st the social board, where the oomyeny are elderly, oonservetive gentlemen, who combine to argue her down. I think she was never ergued down in her life. ‘ . Go into the oroherd, jar the fruitwleden trees one after another, end not e greater shower of plums, cherries and pomegranates will fell about your head then the eittioisms, anecdotes, and repsftees which this bounteous women sheds down in her teble talk. Housekeeping, babies, free trade, temperance, and women suf- frage are her favorite themes. ‘tony 3 person, after spending e delightful evening in her society, has gone away, saying, "ﬁell, that is ﬁedeme De Steel alive agein.” How She Qoelled e Bully. Mrs. Stanton always had the ooorege of her convictions, Which, with a re~ former,is half the battle. This was never better illustrated them in the following incident. She was back in her old home, Johnstown, visiting her mother. She and her sister, ﬁrs. Eaton,1sere walking toward the cemetery to visit the graves of their forebears. Now3iErs. Eaton was a very proper, conservative woman, not in the least democratic; e very beautiful person, with snoW~white,‘Wevy hair, who never 1%“ got out of spherei As they passed the blacksmith shop, the Smith, a huge men, was pouhding e smell one, while a crowd of men and boys looked on, apparently enjoying the scene; as members of the sterner sex have s vey of ﬂoing in street fights. set one raised e finger to stop the onequal contest. But the moment my mother ep- peered and grasped the situation, she rushed up and separates the men, took her position in front of the giant blacksmith, seized his arms by their great bulgine C) N , . .&W. . .. biceps muscles, end bede ham stop; adding, "You are 1n danger of kxlllng that little men, my deer fellow, then.you sill be put in prison, tried, and will have ,to hang, for the few minutes of angry fighting in'ehioh you have indulged.” ;Then’ she turned her heed over her shoulder and asked that crowd if theyseere not ss that of the men, end their self-sacrifice and devotion were disgleyed in many end M’ J .17 eshmed to stand by esglehe raise a finger to stop so unequal s contest. iheenehile the little men hed;mede his escape; and the meh and boys, with hanging heeds, slunk away. ihother said she could feel the blecksmith‘s greet biceps relax under her touch. ‘Then she begged his pardon for reproving him before a crowd of his peers, but she said she could not bear to see him, in his teeering rage,rushing madly to certain death. She told him that she had five sons of her own and was accustomed to stopping fights. So she left him.end joined her sister, who had walked on, end nes greeted with, ”hell,Lib Csdy; I never knee anybody like youi That man is the ugliest creature in town, everyone is afreid of him. He is.slways thrashing someone, and he will be so mad at you for disgrecing him before that crowd that it won‘t be safe for you to go out of the house." "Honsense, Harriot”, said mother, “you just'wait and see. He has too much that is good in him. I ceuld tell it by his face." And sure enough, this wise and courageous woman had awakened the best elements in that great burly blacksmith, and early the next morning the front doer~bell rang: there he stood, all dressed up, freshly sheven, asking for‘hrs.i Stehton. In his hend'Wes e beautifullxnﬁpuﬁaof flowers for her from his garden. He thhnhed her,'With tears in his eyes, for saving him from.his angry passions. They had a long talk on various subjects, At parting he took her hand and told her she eould never realize what she had done for him. And often during her stay in Jchnstowh he called and left flowers for her, and if she were at home, he would stop and have s long talk. ﬁbmen end the Civil War. Inzsy mother's reminiscences, “Eighty Years and sore”, she tells of the greet work the eomeh of the United States aid during the Civil War. She sums it all up thus: "The patriotism of the women shone forth as fervently and spontaneously ,._,'§::._..,,,,,.:, - . ..- »z.'-;.-«x-.. ‘- -‘ varied fields of sction. ..... ’When the war broke out Women were in four trades; ; . ; ‘.,«”"-"'"«‘_-’,»"‘7T”"’T"'7""":"”-¢’f-?“!*"" ‘"6’ fhsﬂ ‘ " - ‘ "' ____.___.. » fr’- 3st the end of the war they eere in four hundred. That tells itsﬁgwn $t°?y$ *****% _, _.JJ., cl ,4 . - —. - - .r ».r-' -«A--»-' ‘ ‘chi i . /718. 1 //--'5 1.... V T The truehistory of the Civil ear will never be fully eritten if the achievements oft e the eomen.sre left untold." The somsn‘s Loyal League . RF‘ ‘In 1882, we moved to New York City. The following year, mother and miss Anthony formed The hbmen‘s Loyal Leegue,'with mother as President andlniss Anthony es Secretary. The League did noble work throughout the war. Its task was to awaken public sentiment by writing and speaking, and to secure signatures to pewl titions to Congress urging that body so to amend the Constitution as to prohibit the existence of slavery in the United States of America. Great meetings'were held all over hen York City, especially at Cooper Unions Signstures'were taken at these gatherings, and in the end petitions carrying over half a million names were sent to Congress. The League was formed after oonsults~ tion'sith such men as Horace Greeley, William.Lloyd Garrison, Governor Andrews, Robert Dale Owen, and others, and did a great educational work, as letters of en-, dorsement received from.generals, statesmen, and editors show conclusively. ﬁrs. Stanton as e Presiding Officer; ‘ It was in Boston that my mother had learned her lessons in how to manage mohs3 and in theﬂi years, when she, herself, was ' huge meetings, a sell , A u. v _ known men, the Rev. Charles F. Deans, of the Church of the Strangers, Wrote of her: "I have studied hrs. Stanton hours at a sitting when she was presiding over those big public meetings at Cooper Union, New York City, and the mob was hissing and shouting; the tact with ehioh she managed that nhole assembly and moulded it to her'nill'Wss a marvel. Except Henry Clay, of Kentucky, she was the best gresiding officer I have ever seen." er _,_/» 3&3. E‘ I ' I’ r -f 7 <3?‘ ’ fﬁmﬁﬂry Clemmes sees, a writer in the Independent&;ss§sﬁ‘ "'3' u 5 a Elisabeth Cedy Stanton embodies in her person the noblest type of the Emericen metron.~~ Ber shite hair surls closely about her fine forehead; her dark eves, l9 quick end earnest, flesh under its side arches, clear reflections of every feeling and thought eithin. Her features are noble, the lines of the mouth es sweet as they are strong, her dress rich and quiet. She has powerful megnetism.es a public speaker, for ell the forces of her rich personality seem fused into her eords. She / ¥ G 6 C I IS logical, earnest and eloquent, and never mennish 1n;msnner. Home L ifs , Ih.my mother‘s autobiography she gives a vivid picture of our home life at this period. so had moved from hew'York to Tenefly, New Jersey, only e few miles from the city. There we had a pretty new house on the western slope of the Palisades; It was large and room, surrounded with magnificent old trees. She writes: "These were busy, happy years, of varied interests, public and private. Sons and dsuphters, graduating from Vassar College, Cornell University and Columbia College Law School, bringing troops of young.people to visit us. The usual love affairs and matrimonial entanglements, weddings, journeys to Europe, business ventures,~ in the Whirl of plans and projects our heads, hearts and hehds'Were fully occupied. ..... Seven boys and girls dancing around the fireside bouyent with life’s joys opening before them, are enough to keep the most apathetic parents on the ‘Watch-tower by day, and anxious, even in drezslend, by night. Ey spare time, if it can be said that I ever had any, was given to social festivities. ... hear us lived the publisher of The Sup, Isecc‘h. England, sho also had seven sons and daughters, as full of frolic as our own. ﬁrs. Engleud and I entered into all their games with equal zest; from.the youngest to the oldest they all thought half the fun'wes to see our enthusiasm in ‘blind men’s buff’, ‘fox and geese’, and “":"‘t¥:<"t "/-'“’5?'*’ ii ?A_é-f".—s ’ ‘bean bags’. I laugh es I srite at the memhry of all thegfrolics we had on the 7g .e 0 c,~ 35 . blue hills of Jersey. ;’¢ﬁ”*@»e The Revolution ; In 1867 ere. Stanton sndliiss enthouy established “The Revolution", e political uesspeper, of ehich my sother see editor-in-chief. “During this burning so time of the reconstruction period these the semen stood almost alone in yreaching the political policy which it would have been'Wise had the nation folhowed”, Writes her daughter, hrs. Harriet Stanton Blatch. “They fought step by step, as the new aeendmehts‘eere added to the United States Constitution, for women as Well as men to be protected under the last and if there was to be a qualification placed upon the newly enfranchised, it should be a qualification of edutatioh. The political insight and grasp of the editorial deeartmeht of *The Revolutiosl is a my- monument to the'eisdom of its editor—in-chief." But that little word “male” crept into the Constitution, and it took till /f:md l A 191% to get it out, - over seventy yearsi Founding the National ﬂoman Suffrage Association, In l869 the National Woman Suffrage Association was founded, mother was made its first President, and she retained that office consecutively for over twentw—five ears/ Great conventions were held in different cities each rear J Y .. 3 especially in.Washington, D.C.iwhenfthe women had “Hearings” before various , J , > ’ V '" .5‘ I Congressional Committees. Lyceums and Lectures, Mrs. Stanton became convinced that in order to advance the suffrage move- ment it was necessary to push the propagahda on a wider stage, and for that reason,, in 1869, she gave her name for the first time to a lecture bureau. and for the next twelve years of her eventful life she travelled all over the country; lecturing for eight months of the year. host of her children were grown up,~ some in college, some in business; her capable, quaker housekeeper, Amelie, was still'sith her, so that all things moved along smoothly during her absences. ~ The Lyceum Bureau was at this time one of the great features in smerican life. ‘hany of the distinguished men and semen of both this and foreign lands were constantly on the wing giving of their best to the large audiences that assemhled 21 ell over the notion. ind the sudienoes richly deserved the best thet dnuld he given, for, particularly in theﬂdest and iatiﬁﬁ Middle West, the country people oame to the lecture centers, often from fifty, sevsnty~five, or even one hundred miles. ‘hothers brought their babies. ﬁhole families - father, mother, uncles, aunts, grsnd~perents, children and pets ~ drove inbehind their fine horses; to hear the message that the lecturer ~ often at enormous personal effort u had come to give. ﬁrs. Stanton from having been one of the most ridiculed endzmﬁsunderstood of women, soon became one of the most popular lecturers of her day. She was in great demand all over the country. The two speeches that were most called for were "Our Girls" and “Our Boys”. "They were full to overflowing with sound, common sense, showed sympathy sod underw standing of youth, and contained tactful and trenchant advice to parents. They 7.7 =9‘ ‘Were classics in that their ideas are not confined to any time; they are as souhd tods es they were in 1870”, writes my sister,.Mrs. Blotc.. Before mother gave up her Lyceum Work she had a long list of lectures and spoke in:mony a town year after year. She had several addresses for women alone, on "hotherhood", "The Care of Babies", "Dress; Diet and Hygiene". Those she gave in the afternoons. She had another speech on ”Thurlow Weed, William H. Seward, and Horace Greeley”, - all of them her personal friends, ~‘Whioh‘Was ex~ tremely popular. Horace Greeley and the Ballot‘, The friendship between mother and Greeley was a vividly interesting one, even though they differed on many points. Why deer lady”, he ssid one dey,'shehi they were having a heated discussion on votes for women, “Don’t you knor that the bullet and the ballot go together? Are you ready to go to war and fight?” "Yes, or. Greeley," she answered quickly, "I’m willing to fight just as you fought in the late oar of the Rebellion, by sending my paid substitute." During that ssr, perhaps some of my young readers may not know, you ooold 22 ff pay a man three or four hundred dollars, ono he oou1@‘and fight for goui Famous women of the Bible, In the course of her looturing'work throughout the United Stotoo mother had several sermons on “Famous ﬁohon of the Bible“. Those she govo in Ghurohoo on Sunday, when she stayed over Week-onds in a place. She opoko before the inmatos of blind asylumo, to the doaf and dumb,» with an interpreter standing behind hor; to the men in prisons in various states; to the students in tho oollogoo and medical schools; before political oonvontions and state logisloturos. .- oSho was over ready for any coll wade upon her. *5. hrs. Stanton Addresses tho Prisoners at Jackson, Eiohigan . In 1874 a Constitutional Convention was held in ﬁiohigan and the proposition ‘Was to be voted upon,;to givo‘the vote to the women of the State. Mother and ébmamdhnuu»/L“ ‘Susan B. 5nthony'woro invited to go and help carry the paagcuééésn. It was a A ist vary ootive oampalgn. The hetho@’Conferenoe passed a rosolutlonyln favor of the 1 ﬁmondmont_by a unanimous vote. Thogiethodists, Unitarions, Uhivorsolists, and Quakers throw open their pulpits to the apostles of the ngw gospel of equality for Woman. §y:mother spoke every evening to large audiences, every afternoon to women alono, and preaohod every Sunday in some tulpit. Those two indofotigab&o‘womon .1. spoke in jails, prisons, asylumo, dopots, the ooon air, and to the collage studohto at tho State University at Ann Arbor. "Wherever there were oars to hear us, we lifted up our voices”, hrs. Stanton says. The votes of forty thousand men were oast for the amendment, aI€‘tho proposition was lost. During that campaign mother was staying at the home of Governor Bogloy. ho'wos in favor of woman suffrage, ahd dooply interested in prison rofonm: so ho urgoé mother to spook to the mom in tho largo Stato prison at Joohsoht She readily _ Jhumvz oohoootoé to do so. .She dooidod that the news of the day woulé interest thooﬁ so she toio them'ehy the women“eere in the State working fat the imendmeni to ramgvg the word male from the Constitutiom, and thus give the mothers something to soy ebouﬁ how things shouid be managed. She eloeys addressed them.ee “Gentlemen”, which gloesed the prisoners very muhh. She told them that if the proyoeition “were oerried, one of the first things the women would do would be to imgrove the prisons.’ Then she drew a word picture of an ideal prison. It was esubjeot’ she had lookeﬁ into very carefully one about which she had many edenoed ideee: no capital pﬁniehment, plenty of out~door'work, amusements, a school to help the uneduoated, good food, training in some trade, pay for their work, and money sent home to their families. She knew all about men and boys, hevimg had five soné} a husband, a brother and a father. She told those men stories, made them laugh, never referred to their sins, in closing she said, "Now, gentlemen, having heard my arguments why the women of Fichigen should be emancipated, how many of you, if you could go to the polls and cast a ballot this Fall, would voﬁe for the gmeniment?" They all stood uo, to the last man: “eh”, she leughingly said, "gentlemengi how I'wish you were all free to vote for us, and that an equal number of our enemies were here in your piaoesi“ They laughed and applauded heartily, and as they filed out each gave her a salute. She said, "I felt satisfied that they had had one hepey hour, and thei I had said nothing to hurt the feelings of the most unfortunate.” OiiiﬂiﬁlﬁlimgfillOIOIOOOOSOOI _ , "gig! , . ; re‘ of { H: ElieebethiCad¥%Stanton : : as she lgokeowﬁgie og : E the 1eoﬁgre.§1e££o£:ﬁ : 759$ sconceooosescoovooooooaoucocs The tales of sorrow one woe that were poured into the ears of this ﬁﬁother 2% in Isreel" by the men and women of this nation made her see thihgs in their true 0 Mrs. Stenton’s Greoe. Often'when mother stayed in prvate houses the hostesses did their own hark, As it would be an important episode in their lives to entertain so distinguished a guest, they would invite relatives std numerous friends for the occasion. hother was often asked to say grace. At first she refused, then she sys, §In.my travels through the West I often sew weary little women coming to the table after meet ehhausting labors, and large, bumptious husbands spreading out their hands end thanking the Lord for the meals that the deer women had prepared, as if the whole came down likezmanna from.heeven. So I preached a sermon ih the blessing I gave. :1 fi You will notice, she remerks’"that it has three heresies in it. "Heavenly Father and Mother, make us thankful for all the blessings of this life, and make us everzmindful of the patient hands that oft in Weariness spread our tables and prepare our daily food. For humanity‘s xxr sﬂm,mmn. » §hen.mother finished and all had raised their heads she met the astonished glances of those gathered shout the table. She noticed how pleased the little hostess looked, and how high she held her heedl The guests esked:mother where she got that grace, saying they had"hever heard anything like it." idould she write it iﬂ their sutogreph albums?‘ Several ladies hadtheirszfremed and hung in their dihingrooms, end to this day I am constantly mehing copies oof it.for people. The babies, too, as s previous story has indicated, needed to be thankful that she was in e position to'eitness the wrongs being done to them. She was the fairy god«mother to many an infant that travelled on the trein with her during these extensive lecturing trips. thhenever she heard a child cry she sent at once to its mother and asked to take it.l Often she gve it its first drink of*seters Oh one occasion she boarded a train and took the only vsosht seet beside 25 a banignwlaaking gentleman. £5 soon as the train startad hm aﬁkgd her if aha knaw‘ anything absuﬁ babies. Sha told him.that aha knaw all abeuﬁ them; having haé aevéﬁ cf her own. “$911”, he said, "that baby that is crying, hasm’t Stmpped sinaa I ggt on this train hours ago. If youfll get ii and bring it here, I3 11 provide a rubber tab, tawels and water, and'wa‘11 see what a bath will da". It was a hat summer day; T29 weary yQung:mother readily consenteé, handed my mcther fresh clathes and the baby, put her haad back, and was sound aaleep in a few sacon&a§ Two men get up in front 55 mother's seat, which they turned over and installed the bath tub tharggn, ?irst tha boy was given a drink of cool water, undressed, than puﬁ into the tub. ﬁany gathered abeut to see the operation. The baby cooad, and smiled and splasheﬁ about under ﬁrs. Stanton's capmhle hands. Then she dried it. Eeanwhile the tub had been removed, a dry tawel put on the seat, and on thighnmther laid the Q%ild§ ‘with another towel over it, and it was souﬁﬁ asieep before you could say ”Jac% Robinson.“ Eeryone heaved a sigh of relief and soon the whole car was in the land of mod:
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Date: 19--?

Creator: Baldwin, Jane North, Langner, Helen P., Thompson, C. Mildred
Date: [After 1940]
Text: AUSTIN FOX RIGGS 1876 - iauo In the death of Dr. Austen Fox Riggs of Stockbridge, Massachusetts, March 5, l9hO, the Faculty of Vassar College lost a distinguished and helpful colleague. He was appointed Lecturer and Consultant in Mental Hygiene at Vassar in the spring of l92h, and with the cooperation of members of his staff of the Riggs Foundation at Stockbridge he continued to serve in this capacity until his death. Under the direction of Dr. Riggs, Vassar became a pioneer in recognizing...
Show moreAUSTIN FOX RIGGS 1876 - iauo In the death of Dr. Austen Fox Riggs of Stockbridge, Massachusetts, March 5, l9hO, the Faculty of Vassar College lost a distinguished and helpful colleague. He was appointed Lecturer and Consultant in Mental Hygiene at Vassar in the spring of l92h, and with the cooperation of members of his staff of the Riggs Foundation at Stockbridge he continued to serve in this capacity until his death. Under the direction of Dr. Riggs, Vassar became a pioneer in recognizing the importance and even the necessity of psychiatric services in the diagnosis and treatment of problems of young people. Through his skillful aid many of our students who suffered from difficulties of maladjustment, from emotional instability or other disorders of a psychiatric nature received from him diagnosis and constructive rehabilitation. During these years, 192h to l9hO, many members of our college community came under the healing and stimulating guidance of Dr. Riggs, and those of us who were not his patients but his fellow-workers have had continuing benefit from his sane and invigorating attitude towards life and its problems. Dr. Riggs, the son of a physician, was born in Ger- many while his parents were residing abroad. He was graduated from Harvard College and from the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Columbia University, and took post-graduate study at Johns Hopkins Medical School in Baltimore. He founded and remained until his death the head of the Riggs Foundation in Stock- bridge, established for the free treatment of patients who needed psychiatric care and who were unable to bear the expense. Many members of Vassar College have been privileged to benefit by the treat- ment and care thus afforded by the Riggs Foundation. This is but one tangible expression of the generosity in giving of himself without stint which was the dominating characteristic of Dr. Riggs. His method of thrapy was one which was based pri- marily on regard for the person as a whole, on a philosophy of life which was strongly social, not I 1 1 i ! i 1 I i I ? I AUSTIN FOX RIGGS (Continued) individualistic, and which combined a strictly scientific training with a rarely humane and sym- pathetic understanding of people. His books written for the general public, "Intelligent Living", "Just Nerves" and "Play", are the embodiment of his own rich living and boundless generosity of spirit. We are grateful for what he was and for what he did, and feel a just pride in the distinction he conferred upon Vassar College in associating himself with us. His friends and colleagues at Vassar will long hold him in grateful remembrance. Jane North Baldwin Helen P. Langner C. Mildred Thompson X - 159 l /
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Creator: Spring, William
Date: 1809-08-24
Text: Bath 24th August 1809 Dear Sir, There is Elven Indians in this Neighborhood that has been much alarmed by Being shot at the other evening by some hunters (as we suppose) and have lost their horses which they cant find since the Circumstance happened -there is several Hunters living in the neighborhood of Mud Creek where this thing happened who have allwaise been opposed to the Indians hunting on their ground, but the Inhabitants here ant able to prove anything against them - the people in the...
Show moreBath 24th August 1809 Dear Sir, There is Elven Indians in this Neighborhood that has been much alarmed by Being shot at the other evening by some hunters (as we suppose) and have lost their horses which they cant find since the Circumstance happened -there is several Hunters living in the neighborhood of Mud Creek where this thing happened who have allwaise been opposed to the Indians hunting on their ground, but the Inhabitants here ant able to prove anything against them - the people in the village wishes them to hunt and are willing to help them in finding their horses - the Bearer cant Satisfyed without coming to see you and wished some person to write a line of course was willing to Satisfy them and will do anything to help them to find out who has troubled them- I am with esteem &c William Spring Capt ParishWilliam Spring letter Augt. 24, 1809Captain Parish Canandaigua
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Date: n.d.
Text: 15%‘ Edition. The BUILDINGWSHIB Qlanfata. C V” D Zwrzltezz, 5_y Hen ry Wadsworth Longfellow, \./ Composed arpressé)/jror the Leeds Triennial Musical Festival, 18 8 O, and res/De c_2ffLZZ)/ de0ZZcaZ‘ecZ/5}/,0e777zz.'9sz'07z/ ﬁizﬁugalﬁigﬁnmgahrﬁrinw ufiﬂﬂalvﬁ. 2? JOHN FRANEIS BARNETT. (1/1). 35. PRICE 4/-/v£ 7r 6222*. Smﬁzll. j BOW 6/_ N iﬂnn E] on ‘ CHO/Pl/S PARTS //— ,,. OR OHESTPAL P/mrs & 3 SEE SEPARATE Lisa‘ 44, Greatjlfarlboroug/7, Street, W \ ]$'."_B__.}’5r 1:77;‘...
Show more15%‘ Edition. The BUILDINGWSHIB Qlanfata. C V” D Zwrzltezz, 5_y Hen ry Wadsworth Longfellow, \./ Composed arpressé)/jror the Leeds Triennial Musical Festival, 18 8 O, and res/De c_2ffLZZ)/ de0ZZcaZ‘ecZ/5}/,0e777zz.'9sz'07z/ ﬁizﬁugalﬁigﬁnmgahrﬁrinw ufiﬂﬂalvﬁ. 2? JOHN FRANEIS BARNETT. (1/1). 35. PRICE 4/-/v£ 7r 6222*. Smﬁzll. j BOW 6/_ N iﬂnn E] on ‘ CHO/Pl/S PARTS //— ,,. OR OHESTPAL P/mrs & 3 SEE SEPARATE Lisa‘ 44, Greatjlfarlboroug/7, Street, W \ ]$'."_B__.}’5r 1:77;‘ 71:7]! 5 ﬂ7Ap)7£r/?)rzruz/Ice 1‘/'}:>z? 0/‘AC/7rI7:’Je '72,//’/’ Wrr: 1.2),»/1, .w.r.z5f' be 777/11/(2 fr» .+/aw /iv/,>1'13;/zr..*/'3. 66 /— \ ‘ \ ‘ \ \ \9D TH; ___/lUT__L/ Series of Eart—Songs, ﬂnthems, &c. IIIIIIIXIIIIIIIIYIXIIXXIIIXIXIXIIIIIIIIIXXIIIXIIXIIIIIIIIXIXXIIXIIXIIIXXXIIIIIIIIIIIIIX SAC R E D_ N SACRED—Contz'nuea’. 3’. F. Bridge, Mus. Doc. 3d. ro3. Praise the Lord, 0 my Soul (Harvest) Wm. Small-wood . . C . 7. Frost 104. O Sing unto the Lord (Harvest Anthem). . Turle Lee ., a. This is the Day . . . A. R. Gaul I05. In Thee, O_Lord (Anthem) .. .. .. 7. R. Alsop 7' 5. Let Thy Merciful Ears .. .. A. R. Gaul 106. 0 How Amiable (Anthem) .. Herhert W. Wareing I2. *Hark ! what mean (Christmas Carol) Sir A. Sullivan ro7.*Sing unto God (Festival) . . . . . . F. Bezlan I 3. ‘Hear, O Lord.. . . . . Michael Watson zo8.*Behold, my Servant (for Christmas) Ehenezer Prout I 5. Let them give thanks W. 9'. Westérook no. Like its the Hart, 0 send out Thy Light C. Lochnane 17. Come Holy Spirit . . . . 7. F. Barnett 1n.Ilf ye then be risen (Easter Anthem) F. Osmond Carr 18. Lord, Remember David .. W. Wei-ehe’ :12. Christ our Passover (Easter Anthem) . . A. C arnall I9. The Lord hear thee . . .. .. . . C. S. Yeh}/ll I13. Out of the deep have I called Hamilton Clarke 20. ‘Praise the Lord, 0 my soul (Harvest Ant.) M. Watson 114. Behold, how good and joyful Ferris Tozer, Mus. Bac. 22 O God, Who hast prepared. . . . . . A. R. Gaul 1x5. Harvest Hymn . . . . .. Turle Lee 23. *Come near ye nations (Christmas Anthem) M. Watson . ii6."Fear not, 0 Land (Harvest) F. C. Maker 25 Rejoice in the Lord alway . . . . .. A. R. Gaul . ir8.¥While shepherds watched (Pastoral Xmas) G. C. Martin 27 Oh, most merciful . . .. 7. F. Bridge, Mus. Doe. ng.IrBreak_forth into joy (Christmas Seymour Smith 29 O Lord, Who hast taught us . . . . W. Metcalfe z2oa.It is high time to awake . . Walter S pinney 32 Unto Thee O God‘ .. . . . . Michael Watson 12ob.Bened1ct1on Hymn .. . . . H. Elliot Button 33 Magniﬁcat and Nunc Dimittis . .. W. H. Hunt :22. Give sentence with me, O God Lewis Thomas 35. "’Daughter of Zion (Xmas Anthem) .. F. C. Maker 122. Awakeuglad Soul. a_Wa.l_<e (Easter) . M. B. Foster 36. *1 will sing unto the Lord , , ,, ,, A, H, jmum x23.*l-lalleluiah ! Christ is risen (Prize Anthem) R.O.Morgan 38. Hear me, O Lord . W. H. Dixon x24a.Almighty God, who has promised . H. Elliot Button 40 41 43 44 46 48 49 xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxn No. 2. ‘Seek ye the Lord . . .. 6. Magniﬁcat and Nunc Dimittis Awakg thou that slecpest , , F_ C, Maker I24l).CvI‘2.nt to 115, Lord . . . . . . H. El‘/llﬂt Button If y¢ love me _ _ , , W, 7, Westbrook , x24c.We humbly beseech Thee, 0 Father H. Elliot Button Let not your heart _, Rev. G, Gardner , 125. How bright those glorious spirits shine A. Page, F.C.0. 0 Worship the Lord . . .. . . Michael Wat;-on , 127. Praise the _Lord, 0 Jerusalem (Harvest) W’. S mallwaod . Blessed is the Man .. .. .. T. Distin . 128. Be Joyful _m God (Harvest) J. C. Bridge. Mus. Doc. . ‘Sing, 0 sing this blessed morn . . flenry Leslie . 129- Tile Lad 13 In sh°Ph°1'd - - ‘ - C- 1- 3- Mtﬂhdm. Blessed is he that considereth‘ Langelon Coléorne, 130- G"{¢_11m° th? 0rd - - - Chm?‘/¢-Y Dﬁﬁtton. the Poor _ , , _ Mus, Doc, ' 131. Rejoice ye Wl_tl’l Jerusalem . . . . . . Arthur Page 51 Thanks be to God (Easter Anthem) William Smallwood . I32. Unto us ‘a Child is born . . H. E. Nichol, Mus. Bat. 53. The Lord is good .. .. ’ .. A. H. Behrend . I33. Wherewlthal shall nyoung man .. .. 7. E. Newell 55. Magniﬁcat and Nunc Dimittis .. Frea'en'e/E Heath . 134-"‘AW3;l<° “P ‘"3’ Gl°l'Y (E3533) - - - - F- C- Maktr 56 Thou Crownest the Year (Harvest Anthem) F. C. Maker 135~*Ch1‘15t 0“? P3-SSOVCT (E3-53°F) 319155“; MW- D06- 5821. Saviour again to Thy dear Name‘ } 136. When the Day of Pentecost (Whitsuntide) A. Kemfton (Anthem, Trio for pcmic voices) Kat‘ U'W”J'" :37. 0 Lord, 1 will praise Thee (Festival) H. A. 7. Campéell 58b. Ditto ditto ditto (For Four-Voices) Kate Llewellyn 59. *Blessed be the Lord God of lsrael (Anthem for Christmas-tide) 9!’ Barmiy 60. O that I had wings like a Dove 7. More Smieton :38. Far down the ages (in March form) . . Coldham Hall 1 39. Behold Ihave given you every herb (Harvest).H.E.Button i4o.*One soweth, another zeapeth (Harvest) . . F. C. Maker Words specially written by Rev. S. Baring Gould, M.A. 141.” Sing,O ye heav’ns(I-Iarvest) W.A.C.Cruick.i‘hank,Mus.B. 62. 0 give thanks unto the Lord (Easter Anthem) M. Watson . 64. IfI go not away (Anthem) . . . . Al/"red 9’. Caldicott . I42. I Will cXl01_Th€¢ -~ - - - . . . F. C. Maker 66. Suffer Little Children . William llietealfe 3d. I43~ HOW beautiful 3-1”‘-‘ the {Get (X3135) W- A- C. C7‘t¢I'Ck-8‘/tank 67a. Rend your Heart . . .. W. H. Dixon 15d. 144- Let l15_“°W Z0 °V°n “M0 B¢thl¢h°m A Ktmftm 67b. 0 Lord, rebuke me not Gaynor Simpson i§d. (Christmas Antlmm) - - - - ' 68 Great‘ is tl'l'ti‘I£4Ol;$ . . . . . . . Fé Ill;/’, fig‘/tr 3%, 14%. 1Pgci)ndei(‘j my i;/lords,hOtIC.lor% (Anthem) Norman Hatfield 69. Teac me y ay . . .. .. ran . air 3 . 14 ~ €559 3” ‘W I 3 0 13 _ 7:. *Fear not '; for behold _ _ .. F. 7. .S'a'wyer. Mus. Doc. 3d. _(«0mm3“d-ments -- -- N’ W’ Hmuard Mc{’!an 72. ‘Arise, shine, for thy Light is come Re?/. 7‘. W. Stephenson, d 147- 5100‘? bY Man C3-m¢ D¢3th (Easter 17- 57"“-Y’ N15/101: (Fun Arnhem) ,_ _, 51,4, 3 - Anthem .. .. .. Mus. Bac. 0.z'on. 73. *Te Deum in B Flat Chas. E. Clemens, F. Gld.0..A.C.0. 3d. :48. The strife is o'er(EasterAnthem)A. - "‘}:;EEb:ft:‘r‘)‘° _]'3““’”“_(_A“”‘f. G. C. Martin, Mus. Doe. . *There is a Green Hill . . Fred. H. Burstall . ‘Sing to the Lord of Harvest . . . . 7. Barnby . ‘Faithful is our God (Harvest Anthem) . . 9. F. Barnett . *Not unto us, 0 Lord (Anthem) . Seymour Smith . ‘There were Shepherds (Anthem for Xmas-tide) A. R. Gaul . *Now is Christ Risen (Easter Anthem) H. Ernest Nichol . ,"Awake up my Glory .. . . .. .. W. G. Wood 89. ‘Blessed be the Name . . . . F. Riclrman 90. *Praise the Lord (Harvest Anthem) . . . F. C. Maker 91. *Rejoice in the Lord, 0 ye Righteous (Festival) A. Page 94 Behold I bring you Good Tidings. . . . Fredh. Peel 95. *Ari=e, Shine (Anthem for Christmas) . . F. C. Maker 97. *The Lord bless you (Wedding and Festival) 7oseph Barnéy 98. *1 have set God_ always before me (Easter) W. Smallwood 99. I am He that liveth . . _ . . 0lz'7/er King 1oo.*I will iﬁiagnify Elie; (Whitsuntide) 7. H. Parry io2. From gypt's on age come (Anthem in style ofa March) - A’””" Pa!‘ Marehant,Mus.B. 149. In that day (Open ye the Gates .. F. C. Maker :50. 0 give thanks unto the Lord Bertram Luard Selby 15:. The Earth is full of the goodness of the F C M A! Lord (for Harvest) ' ' a ‘V . O sing unto the Lord (Harvest) Ferris Tozer, Mus. Bac. . O sing unto God . . . . Arthur Page, F.R.C.0. Sing, 0 heavens . . . . Cola’/tam Hall . Break forth into joy (Christmas) J. C. Bridge, Max. Doe. . 0 be joyful in the ord .. F. Peel, Mus. Bac. Oxon. . The steps of a good man are ordered by the ord . . .. Em. A. Dicks, F.R.C.0. . Ellho is liécedunto Tléeel, 0 Log: (liaster) . . F. Tozer . ehold, o is my a vation nt em for Easter) . . .. . . i W’ Smallwaad . The Lord is my Shepherd. . .. F. C. Maker . Rejoice in the Lord, ye Righteous E. M. Barﬁer . Sing ye to the Lord (Harvest) A. W. Marchant, Mus. B. . Every good Gift (Harvest) . . . . A. W. Ketelbey . O praise the Lord (Harvest) . . (Continued on hack ﬁage.) The numbers marked *‘may be had in Sol-fa, 2d. each. EL 11 1". L‘. IL [L A r; 11 E Iﬂ I". ll F r E E‘. [L ll 11 F. l E‘. S E‘. ll [1 IL [L I1. [L E‘. P. n E. i ll % I1 LL IL n 9+ E‘. E‘. O :1 n E E LONDON: PATEY & WILLIS, 44, Great Marlborough Street, W. BOSTON: A. P. SCHMIDT. 146, BOYLSTON STREET. A . Redhead IXXIIIXIII XXII IIIIXIIIIIIXIIIXIIIIXXIXIIXIXXIIXIIIXIXXIIIIIIIIIIIIIXIIIIIIXXII}IIIIXIXIIIIXIXXIIIXXIXIIXIXXIXIXX I5t.h Edition. The BUILDINGga:&eSHIB Qgaﬁfata. ZWritte2L 5} Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Composed arpresslj/j’0r t/za Leeds Tﬁenni a1 Musical Festival, 1 8 8 o, and res;0ectjiLZZ}/ dedicated /5}/,0e777zz'ssz'o7z/ 1§mmuga1mhnm2irue1@rium ufﬁiﬂalrﬁ. JOHN FRANCIS BARNEIT: (//>. 35. f; /:‘Q€Zé—E""' /VH7 _ <9n2.‘. S_ta.HELZL. . 2%. W 6/_ H EH0“ C»/opus PARTS 7/- ,, OR OHESTRAL Pxmrs 86 S ’ SEE SEPARATE /_/ST 44; Great Zlfzrlborough Street, W 2\C’B_..E2r £725 Jig/a/: r,>z_“;2z-.v'f?)rzn;,L/zcc '/';"<=-e of}-]n2r;;¢-* '2z;;/2/.1’/~«z17),»/1, M15!‘ 726 ‘nvwfn fr» 2‘/Le / My/' 25/14713. INDEX. 1. INTRODUCTION (INSTRUMENTAL), - -» SOLO (Bass). Build me straight, O worthy Master, CHORUS. The merchant’s word, - - - RECIT. (Bass). And with a voice, - - - CHORUS. The merchant’s word, - - 2 RECIT. (Tenor). Beside the master, - - = - CHORUS (Female Voices). Beautiful they were in sooth, 3 RECIT. (Bass). “ Thus,” said he, - - - - - 4 ARIA (Bass). Choose the timbers, (The Shipwright’s song), RECIT. (Soprano). The Master’s word, - - - - - QUARTET FOR FEMALE VOICES. The sun shone on her golden hair PRELUDE (lnstrunzenial), - - — — - _- - ARIA (Tenor). Love’s command, - - - - - { CHORUS (Male Voices). In the ship-yard, - - CHORUS. Thus with the rising of the sun, - - - DUET (Soprano and Tenor). As in a dream, - - - RECIT. (Bass). Day by day, - - - - - - ' { CHORUS (M ale Voices). Build me straight, O worthy Master, { RECIT. (Contralto). Behold, at last, — - - - - ' ARIA (Contrallo). Ah! when the wanderer, - - - RECIT. AND SCENA (Soprano). To-day the vessel shall be launched, CHORUS. The prayer is said, - - - - - SOLO (Bass). The worthy pastor, - - - - SoLo (Bass) AND CHORUS. “ Like unto ships,” RECIT. (Tenor). Then the Master, - - - - CHORUS. And see! she stirs! - - - - - ' RECIT. (Tenor). And lo ! from the assembled crowd, CHORUS. “ Take her, 0 bridegroom,” - — - QUARTET (Soprano, Conlrczllo, Tenor, and Bass). How beautiful she is, FINALE-— iCHORUs. Sail forth into the sea, - - - - - - - - - 15.4 QUARTET (Soprano, Contralto, Tenor, and Bass). Sail forth into the sea of life, CHORUS. For gentleness and truth, — - - - - - - - - tQUARTET AND CHORUS. Like unto ships, - e v - - - - o 7&6 Bwzi/dzkg of Me Skip. INTRODUCTION (Im2‘r1mze7ztal). REClTATIVE——BASS. “ Build me straight, O worthy Master ! Staunch and strong, a goodly vessel, That sl1all laugh at all disaster, And with wave and whirlwind wrestle !” CHORUS. The merchant’s word, Delighted the Master heard ; For his heart was in his work, and the heart Giveth grace unto every Art. A quiet smile played round his lips, As the eddies and dimples of the tide Play round the bows of ships, That steadily at anchor ride. RECITATIVE——BASS. And with a voice that was full of glee, He answered, “Ere long we will launch A vessel as goodly, and strong, and staunch, As ever weathered a wintry sea !” CHORAL RECITATIVE (MALE VOICES). In the ship-yard stood the Master, With the model of the vessel, That should laugl. at all disaster, And with wave and whirlwind wrestle ! RECITATIVE——TENOR. Beside the Master, when he spoke, A youth, against an anchor leaning, Listened to catch his slightest meaning. Only the long waves, as they broke In ripples on the pebbly beach, Interrupted the old man’s speech. CHORUS (FEMALE Voxcns). Beautiful they were, in sooth, The old man and the iiery youth ! The old man, in whose busy brain Many a ship that sailed the main Was modelled o’er and o’er again ;—— The ﬁery youth, who was to be The heir of his dexterity, The heir of his house, and his daughter’s hand, When he had built and launched from land What the elder head had planned. RECITATlVE——BASS. “ Thus," said he, “will we build this ship ! Lay square the blocks upon the slip, And follow well this plan of mine.” ARIA. “ Choose the timbers with greatest care; Of all that is unsound beware ; For only what is sound and strong To this vessel shall belong. Cedar of Maine and Georgia pine Here together shall combine. A goodly frame, and a goodly fame, And the UNION be her name ! For the day that gives her to the sea Shall give my daughter unto thee ! Ah ! what a wondrous thing it is To note how many wheels of toil One thought, one word, can set in motion I There’s not a ship that sails the ocean, But every climate, every soil, Must bring its tribute, great or small, And help to build the wooden wall !” RECITATIVE —SOPRANO. The Master’s word Enraptured the young man heard ; And as he turned his face aside, With a look of joy and a thrill of pride, Standing before Her father’s door, He saw the form of his promised bride. QUARTET (FEMALE VOICES)——U7zzzcco7/1pmzz'e/i The sun shone on her golden hair, And her cheek was glowing fresh and fair, With the breath of the morn and the soft sea air : Like a beauteous barge was she, Still at rest on the sandy beach, Just beyond the billow’s reach ; But he, Was the restless, seething, stormy sea! ARI A——TENOR. Ah, how slailful grows the hand That obeyeth Love’s command ! It is the heart, and not the brain, That to the highest doth attain, And he who followeth Love’s behest Far exccedeth all the rest ! CHORUS. Thus with the rising of the sun Was the noble task begun, And soon throughout the ship—yard’s bounds ' Were heard the intermingled sounds Of axes and of mallets, plied With vigorous arms on every side; Plied so deftly and so well, That ere the shadows of evening fell, The keel of oak for a noble Ship, Scarfed and bolted, straight and strong, Was lying ready, and stretched along The blocks, well placed upon the slip. a Happy, thrice happy, every one Who sees his labour well begun, And not perplexed and multiplied, By idly waiting for time and tide ! 'DUET—SoPRANo AND TENOR. And when the hot, long day was o’er, The young man at the Master’s door Sat with the maiden calm and still. And within the porch, a little more Removed beyond the evening’s chill, The father sat, and told them tales Of wrecks in the great September gales, Of pirates upon the Spanish Main, And ships that never came back again, The chance and change of a sailor’s life, Want and plenty, rest and strife. And the trembling maiden held her breath At the tales of that awful, pitiless sea, With all its terror and mystery, The dim, dark sea, so like unto Death, That divides and yet unites mankind ! \ And whenever the old man paused, a gleam From the bowl of his pipe would awhile illume The silent group in the twilight gloom, And thoughtful faces, as in a dream. RECITATIVE—BASS. Day by day the vessel grew, With timbers fashioned strong and true, And around the bows and along the side The heavy hammers and mallets plied, Till after many a week, at length, Wonderful for form and strength, Sublime in its enormous bulk, Loomed aloft the shadowy hulk ! And amid the clamours Of clattering hammers, He who listened heard now and then The song of the Master and his men :- CHORUS (MALE VOICES). “ Build me straight, O worthy Master, Staunch and strong, a goodly vessel, That shall laugh at all disaster, And with wave and whirlwind wrestle !” “With oaken brace and copper band, Lies the rudder on the sand, That, like a thought, shall have control Over the movement of the whole ; And near it the anchor, whose giant hand VVill reach down and grapple with the land, And immovable and fast Hold the great ship against the bellowing blast 1” RECITATIVE--s CONTRALTO. Behold, at last, Each tall and tapering mast Is swung into its place ; Shrouds and stays Holding it firm and fast I And everywhere The slender, graceful spars Poise aloft in the air, And at the mast head, White, blue, and red, A ﬂag unrolls. ARIA. Ah ! when the wanderer, lonely, friendless, In foreign harbours shall behold That ﬂag unrolled, ’Twill beas a friendly hand Stretched out from his native land, Filling his heart with memories sweet and endless. RECITATIVE——SoPRAN0. All is ﬁnished ! and at length Has come the bridal day Of beauty and of strength. SCENA. To-day the vessel shall be launched 2 " With ﬂeecy clouds the sky is blanched, And o’er the bay, Slowly, in all his splendours dight, The great sun rises to behold the sight. The ocean old, Centuries old, Strong as youth, and as uncontrolled, Paces restless to and fro, Up and down the sands of gold. His beating heart is not at rest; And far and wide, With ceaseless ﬂow, His heard of snow Heaves with the heaving of his breast. He waits impatient for his bride. There she stands, With her foot upon the sands, Decked with ﬂags and streamers gay, In honour of her marriage day, Her snow-white signals ﬂuttering, blending, Round her like a veil descending, Ready to be The bride of the grey, old sea. On the deck another bride Is standing by her lover’s side. Shadows from the ﬂags and shrouds, Like the shadows cast by clouds, Broken by many a sunny ﬂeck, Fall around them on the deck. CHORUS. The prayer is said, The service read, The joyous bridegroom bows his head, And in tears the good old Master Shakes the brown hand of his son, Kisses his daughter's glowing cheek In silence, for he cannot speak, And ever faster Down his own the tears begin to run. REClTATlVE~—BASS. The worthy pastor—— The shepherd of that wandering ﬂock, That has the ocean for its wold, That has the vessel for its foici, Leaping ever from rock to rock- Spake, with accents mild and clear, Words of warning, words of cheer. BASS SOLO AND CHORUS.‘ “ Like unto ships far offat sea, ’ S ' Outward or homeward bound, are we, Before, behind, and all around, Floats and swings the horizon’s bound, ‘ Seems at its distant rim to rise And climb the crystal wall of the skies, And then again to turn and sink, As if we could slide from its outer brink. Ah ! it is not the sea, It is not the sea that sinks and shelves, But ourselves That rock and rise With endless and uneasy motion, Now touching the very skies, Now sinking into the depths of ocean. Ah ! if our souls but poise and swing Like the compass in its brazen ring, Ever level, ever true To the toil and task we have to do, We shall sail securely, and safely reach The Fortunate Isles, on whose shining beach The sights we see, and the sounds we hear, Will be those ofjoy and not of fear I” RECITATIVE—TENOR. Then the Master, VVith a gesture of command, VVaved his hand ; And at the word, Loud and sudden there was heard, All around them and below, The sound of hammers, blow on blow, Knocking away the shores and spurs. CHORUS. And see ! she stirs ! She starts,——she moves,—she seems to feel The thrill of life along her keel, And, spurning with her foot the ground, V\7ith one exulting, joyous bound, She leaps into the 0ccan’s arms ! RECITATIVE—TENoR. And lo ! from the assembled crowd There rose a shout, prolonged and loud, That to the ocean seemed to say,- CHORUS. “ Take her-, O bridegroom, old and grey, Take her to thy protecting arms, VVith all her youth and all ll.C|.' charms !” QUARTET—— Umzccomgﬁaz/z'ed. How beautiful she is ! How fair She lies within those arms that press Her form with many a soft caress Of tenderness and watchful care 1 FINALE. QUARTET AND CHO RUS. Sail forth into the sea, 0 ship ! Through wind and wave, right onward steer, The moistened eye, the trembling lip, Are not the signs of doubt or fear. Fear not each sudden sound and shock, ’Tis of the wave and not the rock ; "l‘is but the ﬂapping of the sail, And not a rent made by the gale ! In spite of rock and tempest’s roar, In spite of false lights on the shore, Ourhearts, ouriiliopes, our prayers, our tears, Our faith triumphant o’er our fears, Are all with thee,—are all with thee! Sail forth into the sea of life, 0 gentle, loving, trusting wife, And safe from all adversity Upon the bosom of that sea Thy comings and thy goings be! For gentleness and love and trust Prevail o’er angry wave and gust ; And in the wreck of noble lives Something immortal still survives ! Like unto ships far off at sea, Outward or homeward bound, are we. Ah ! if our souls but poise and swing Like the compass in its brazen ring, Ever level, ever true To the toil and task we have to do, We shall sail securely, and safely reach The Fortunate Isles on whose shining beach Sail on, nor fear to breast the sea ! Our hearts, our hopes, are all with thee, The sights we see, and the sounds we hear, Will be those of joy and not of fear ! ANALYSIS OF THE INTRODUCTION AND FINALE. The Amz’am‘e with which the instrumental Introduction opens, is intended to illustrate Sunrise on the sea-shore, with the breath of the mom and the soft sea air.” This leads to a Cantabile melody in E minor, allegro ma non troppo, suggestive of the aspirations of the youth to the hand of the Master’s daughter. (The same melody is used as a connecting link in the musical illustration of the poem by being employed as a prelude to the aria, “ Love’s Command.”) Then the ' air is ﬁlled with the sounds of workmen in the ship-yard commencing their morning’s toil, described by the allegro moderate, during which, from time to time, can be heard the love song of the youth whilst directing the labours of the men, and carrying out the plans of the Master. In the Finale, the scene of a multitude witnessing a vessel leaving the shore is musically illustrated. The instrumental symphony preceding the chorus, describes the vessel receding from the land, whilst the sailors’ Heave ho! as the ship gets under weigh, is imitated by notes of the horn. Then the people cheer with the words, “ Sail forth into the sea, 0 ship ! Through wind and wave, right onward steer !” after which they give vent to their fears for its safety; but hope predominates, and the people burst forth in full chorus, “ Sail on, nor fear to breast the sea! Our hearts, our hopes, are all with thee.” The good wishes of all for the future of the bride are expressed by the solo voices, accompanied by the harp, in the words, “ Sail forth into the sea of life, 0 gentle, loving, trusting wife.” The vessel now is gradually fading out of sight on the horizon, when the impressive words of the Pastor recur to the people, who with one accord join in the melody,—- “ Like unto ships far off at sea, Outward or homeward bound, are we.” /*//P NE N9 1. INTRODUCTION. Wo1'(ls by Music by LONGFELLOW. JOHN FRANCIS BARNETT. A11dzu1t(‘. J _—_ 96. P (rs/Jr(<s'.s'. . Pp Allvgro ma non troppd a’J=I—1-1». :4: '}’.&W.589 3*‘-—-—-_--‘T P.& W’. 5N9 P. & VV. 589' ‘ U ca/2/at/21'/re /if P4 & VV.__58,9 ma//0 (2res.. 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P. & W. 589 heir" of his house, and his daz1f_rr1x.__ter;s hand,Whe11 he had built and P/645%‘. .‘:—==- The heir of his house, and his daugh_.ter’s — .The heir of his house, and his daug1)-ter's11and;Whe11 ’“\ latliiclid from land Wiiat the el _ der planrfd, (TI'¢°S _ hand. ............... ..Wi1e1'1 he hadbuilt and 1aunch’d from (3 res . ' dim _ ‘ he .................... had Iaunch’d ....... .. froui land ............................. .i ..... .. P.& W 589 PP el _ der head had planrfd ................ ......... ,,,,,,,,,,,, ,_ PP el _ der head had ‘plantfd ......................................... .. PP ‘ cl _. der head had plamfd ........................................... __ D Beau _ fi_ ful they Beau - ti_fu1 they A Beau __ ti_ful they D SOPRA\'0. ,,if‘___.___:___ were. in woﬂm, The old man and the‘ '. t youth...“ ALTO in sooth. The old mum and the fie‘ _ ry youth.Tl1e v.lmsv old nnn. ' whos‘¢- bmln ...... .. 4 t P 4? (V/()[(‘/’ _-£J——. 'r*rr».s*. a ship shat saim .................... ........ .. tl1&rxnai11W;xs P (.'I'(~.S‘. that sailll tho W19 9 P. $2 W. 5.9%!) mo_d(‘H‘d Beau ._ ti _ ful Hwy d(>H.({ sooth, Beau _ ti _fu\ tlxqy in sooth, '( - T and the fie _ I‘!V youth! The old man, in_ whose The old man, in ................... .. whose bu _ S_y P.,& VV. 589. dim . . ‘ v . ..~ . bu _ sy bram ' _‘ ny :1V shxp that saﬂd tho mam Was dim. :1 ship that saird the main Was» t _ Putt o'er mod _ 01111 (fur . ry youth, who "3 he The lwir of his (.'I'P-S‘. ll youth. ‘ho » ‘P. & S5’. 5&9 _te _ i‘i _ ty, The heir of his home, ........ .. and his udex _ te _i .' The heir.'..... of his d /‘.i\:» %€° ‘Ra. 4+ f d;1u;:h _ __ t(‘l‘iS‘ hand, wilPl') ho..... had built ............... .. and (//'/21. ‘ hmt.~:v..... and... his dauig;h _tm-is hand Wllcii he had built and ha ' é...°// sent two a/1'm~ 1;u.xnclid.....from at the el _ '0 L‘iu|1ch from . iami F .S'(‘lII/)7?’ //II . _ - day head had p1.:11111'(1..-. ................... .. .s-r»m/ma Beau- ‘ti _ ful ' .s'ootl1, old 1111111 and ‘sgp. IL .s'a>/N/JIV? Beau- ti _ fnl ' .s'm1ﬂ1, old 1112111 and ALTO I, .99/)1/)re p Beau _ ti _ ful ' old 1112111 $11111 / ALTO 11. W”/W, 0' Bean. ti _ ful ' south, P. & \V. 589 pr/co ‘I‘l.l€Il . rv _youthTA The the Tic: ” poco ri .22. ry youth? The 111.111 the _fi(; _ pace rftmz. youth? The - ’ the fL'1p poco rilm. ‘e um fin _ /man r-/'/mg , KO \ Z . - _:w:L—————————x\ -' _ rs _youtl1Y ............................................................................................. __ (1 ta//1/)0 /\ youth? _______________________________________________________________________________________________ __ a tr»//1/Jo (3 yottﬂn. _____________________________________________________________________________________________ __ It tram /3 pp a {mu ( cm, F. & ‘V. 395? N9 4:. RECITATIVE 8: ARIA. “The Shipwrighfs Song? Allegro lnpltp. J .—. 112. RPI(?IT. Bi\s.<; SOLO. “T11xxs~‘»,"s:1id he, “will we build this 5112)] ﬂame. Lay square tho blmkvs up _ on shp, A119 molta I’ this pl an Allegro. J : IH. 4:0 . ARIA. Andante. J : 108. '..._{'; 7/? "Choose the tim _bmfs with g'reat_.est Care, Of all that un _ <_../ sound be_ware; or on- ly what is sound and str0ngTo this Ves_sel shall be- B Allegro. J;-176. o~_ Ce _ dar of Mame and Geor_ gia pme ‘lonb Ato_ge _ that‘. shall 1 c0m_bin'c; A good- ly ’ > > > P. & W’. 589 ad [ 17) . And the Uni_0n be her \' 1:? Ahdante (‘on moto. J;-112. can es re.s‘5'.v (ru/zlzz/21'/(2 name? For the day that giV’(2s her‘ to the sea Shall X,_,__._\_ sempre give my d:uIg;h_te'1' Im _ to them The day that gives her (Pg?!/() to the sea Shall give my daI.xg11_ ter 1’. & W’. 589 +2 C Allegrgtto. J -_- 108. th(:(- .” P > ' ' dim. co so/1 ('I‘Z0.S‘() P tr'um]2(I'//u "Ah? what so .9 Inn ll [0 won ._ druus thing; K. wheels of On «‘ t11ot.tgl1t, one word, I’. J; W’. 589 Thcrds‘ that sails the 111 ate , P. &W. 589 $111311, build the wood_ em I’. & W5"‘589 Andante . 7]! “Choose the tim ' _o_~r<-at est sound he _ Q"E..T/ ly what sound and .</mono‘ To this ves_ Se] Shall be _ :>- ° To ves_ sel shall be _ long. . camfabl/e P-. & VV. 589 F Andante ooh mom. J=ll2. pom: esluress e ca)n‘abI'le ‘ For the day that gives her sea Shall g‘iv(: .s-(2/up re legato un_ to thee, Tho day that gives hm‘ to the sea Shaﬂ Pe; give my (laugh - tor, .................................... .. lll~Vd£1I.Igh_tCI‘« h? P. {'3 \H (lattglx- tor un _ to T shall Vg"iV'(> my dz1u;v_'h _ tor dim. '7'”- \' 117 :4 .L I‘. & \\'. 589 N95 RECIT & QUARTETT FOR FEMALE VOICES. “The Sun shone on her golden Hair.” AH({<,;‘1‘0. J: 160. 0\/ ’ f /21'!’//rm//' /)_I'I'//Imfr‘ I‘ R H ‘ IT. SOPRANU. .f.r'()lI /)a.¢.s'I« /7.4 The M:1.s"u-17-‘ word En _ K\ ”X. rap‘turod the }'ui1\1g_v; man hoard: 110 ttlrm-d hiis and 21 thrill look of joy [J0('0 (‘I‘(’S‘. REC-IT. Standing be_for(: Her fatheris‘ door, He saw the ‘:33 bride. ' Andante sostenuto. :1 = 72. PP (Sqft Pedal. ) “Tith a a _ side. form of his promis°d QUARTETT FOB FEMALE VOICES. (UIlaCUo7I1p(I‘IZ.ic?d Andante ($11 mote. or‘: 10$ V SOPBANO 1. SL111 Sh()ll(.‘ ()ll SOPRANO 11. sun shone on CONTRAI.TO 1. Sun shone on C0NTHAI.To II. Andante con mote. PI A _\vO_ ( [51 m 1:0/)1/Jrm I'M! Cheek fresh cheek fr(-#31] I 0 gold _ gold .. on P. & W. 589» pr g:(Jhl_(‘Il hair’,And her g<)l<1_(*11 hair, d -r g;ohL<‘1'1 hair, And her Sun shone on her’ and fair. V\’.iih and fair, With the and fair, en hair’ ‘breath breath lm-ath with the 1) rmth heaI.1t0ou.s‘ barge. like ],Jik(‘ l)oaI1to()us bargv. liko a L ike P. & WI 5:-<9 1)van_t(>m1s barge was _[r beau _tvous barge was i “-___.~_.‘=a—— 1wau_tv0us barge was —-‘J: bear1_t¢2()u.§ barge was (1 y bearh J st (1)7 _A beach Just 1’ d_y. .....beach Just P V san_dy beach Just Still yond the youd the yond the yond the P. <1; W. 589 B bil _ lowis‘ reach; 7)! ach; But he bﬂ _ l0w's bil _ 1ow‘s reach B he was thé rest; less, was the r0st_ less, )1) he was the rest _ .]e.s'.s', seeth _ ingg se<eﬂ1 _ ing, seeth less, sceth _ seething‘, storm _ _y se>et}1iﬁg, storm- y the the rest ,. iess, sect11_ i11f_1‘ rest _ less, .s‘0e’th _ ing; the pace rile»/1. sooth _i 9;, stor111 poco /'l'tH2 . storln ]) /1000 storm _ _ _ par-0 rzlmz . s_€:/ storm I-noz,-0 r/'1»-/2.. rest _ less, Crfh’. rest _ less, CF83. rest a la»)/zpo The a tr>1)1p9' 16 ct tempo The a tempo rffempo S1111 S1101)? 011 sun show- 011 SUI] $110119 UY1 fresh fresh . fresh and an d and fa ir, §I()l({ _ (‘ll §_7:()ld _ (‘.11 gold_ on sun shone the the the hair. hair. hair, 011 breath breath breath P. & W’, 589 (iheek was c}1e0k "as cheek was breath glow. iug glow- ing _ glow. mg hairﬁ be/an _ tc-ous beau _ toous barge dz’ \ . I A beau _ teous r//'1/1. beau _ toous barge ,,,,,,,,,,,,,, __ P. & VV. 589 She, tr»/2. she, ten . barfro , lam . She, beach, P Still at I’ Still at rest on the — San _ cly rest sun at Still at D ‘ : do/(,'¢° )0 __ yoncl thv l Wis‘ acl1.'Tl1esuusl10ne «-4: dolce )each. ‘The sun shone —-=';‘do/ce d_y..... ach.- The sun shone —-a.-;‘_ dolor? L» heachv. The sun shone D P. mi 559 fresh L... dim. f,\ glow _ Ving b fresh /3 P. &. '. 5359 check was C ['63. cheek .......... c_ _ cheek ........ breath of fair, fair, ‘ fair. soft ............................................... .. Sea cre.s.. "dim. the mom" b the (-hovk ....................... .. ('f‘(‘S.' \/ was glow _ ing fresh and (‘PP-9'. ‘ d 'm . ixxg fresh "and g'].()W _. morn and - ihe _.___"T,>- breath the / breath ...................... .. — ,, breath ............ . ._ ......... . . atirt, With the breath of — fair, with the b rvath of the breath of the ~ With the air, air; 11 pa}? a//m - pp soft ............................................ .. pf/P dim. and the . morn . . . . ‘ pl}? r//m .. and the ('12 dim . V P. & VV. 589 r/(‘III . morn and II'l()l‘lX, morn, dim ; 9 of (//m . of (/ fm . the the the N‘? PRELUDE AND ARIA. “Love's ‘command’? Allegro 1n0derato.J=16 O mo/lo a_qI'tato , . 9% Ai1daHt€. J :.- 88. . . t°.S‘[)I‘¢°.S‘.S’. (I in: . sempre Cantabile ARIA. ‘ Andante con moto. J=108.. a/2p/z.s*.w'n7zuc'r( ad /,‘5_ _- r1/we . - *3“ ' fﬁv con spress. P. & W. 5559 , T1~:x(>n. ca/zlzz/2/'/P Ah, hand..... That 0 _ hey _ eﬂ1L0Vo’.s‘ com _ 1nzm<U..-. is the heart, and not . brzlin, That 0 ho _ \_____Z L2 high _ est doth at _ iaih, And he who fol _ Iow_vth... am. . B p Love's bc_l1<-st Far ox _ é'ee<l_etl1 all the restl. It is tlxe Alw:1rt..._ and not the brztin. That to tluk lliglz _ est (loth at - —i'I..T——> _ _T__“*._;——— 3? And he who fol _ _ l()w_(:tl1LoV(.-,’;s‘bu- lmst._,,_ Far ex _ cecd _ eth all the restl’ T ra//. V a zﬂrwzpo Z-T Ah, V fuL... g‘ruvvs ..... the (C /’lll[}O hand .... .. That bey _ <:t1)LoVe’s(-(>111- 1n:mdY.~... " ' — 3 the heart, and not the brain, That to the -—~—f‘.._.""‘___ ./ }1ig'}1 _ est doth at _tai1:), And hv who v.._..‘T—--— fol. _ low _ eth Low’s (lg/ll‘. ceed _ eth all the skil _ ful grows T‘ a z‘r.»n1 mand! .............................. __ a tempo ra ll, ‘ P Ah, how 7-‘- . . . . . . . . - u n . . . . . .. fI\ N‘? 7. C H 0 U S. “Thus with the rising of the Sun’.’ Allegro con brid. J:-.H—1. P. & \V. 589 SK’/lI])I"‘.’ CI‘CT’S‘. ‘fab. P.& V’. 589 SOPRANO. with with with with the the the the .s0on ....... . . through soon ....... . . ﬂ1r0<.1g'h the ship _ O .' bounds - “fore soon ‘through — out he ship __ Vard§ the ship _ y21r(r~'. And soon through — out the ship _ _yard’s‘ A heard ,,,,,,, ,_ the in _ tor _ min _ gled sounds, bounds lxeafd tie .s0unds. bound S heard ¢§¢ }m:1r<l in _ tor _ min'_ glad ‘in __ ta‘ ~_ min _ g‘0d Soxxnds‘. /‘X in ._ fer _ min _ g_'l_ed sounds,... V. and of glcd sounds Of lxeard ‘due in _ tor _ min _ glod sm11x(1.s' min _ g1edsou11d.~; Of’ _ and of l2N'//an/P "- >. L P. & w. 13:24 ma] mal lets, lets, es and of mm} mal ‘ _ lets, P. & “T 589 11131 ma} - lets, _ lets, PHM1 ‘VH1! I. go - I'ou_.s ma] _ lots. mal _. lots‘, plied Wiilx pm .With P. & VV. 589 pliéd With p1i'ed Witil n ]_)Ii0d Witll * PM with ' P. 4% W. 589 o Iil1Ir(,'(IL’r) And soon....... thruuggh _ out ip_.yard’.s' And soon ...... .. through _ out ship _ yard's' P. A‘ “T .3549 S0011 munds .. . bounds‘. through _ th rough __ -out the ship __ yard§ bounds ‘Vere h(:21rd..... the _out the ship _ _y;1r(Ys bounds h0ar<l...,. the in __ ‘(er _ min- gled ter _ min _ gl<*({ sounds, .......... .. heard ............ .. . . ') heard ter _ m1n_ glc-d sounds, .......... .. {T ‘ 0 Sounds, . . . .. hoard _ the P. & W’. 583 _ f;‘1€¥(1SOI.[l'1dS Of _ gl<*d.sou11dS _ gled smn1d.~; in _ tvr _min _ ?<_r;l<V-(l sotnxdsf. the ' - tel‘- min _ glad J» .5 s ounds P. & W. 5:29 mal _ lets, of mal _ lets. pned wam P. &, ‘W. 589. plied With side, plied ‘V1t}1 pued With plied plied well, That» I’ That, we.-IL That, PP That, P. & ‘W. BN9 of . IJOCI) (1. [.1000 of Scéarfd Soaryfa P. W’. 589 38))! 7'6? st raight and 36)]! /'8 straight and .s‘(—)11pr'e straight and .5‘6"I)I})I'6 straight and ..s‘(»//I/1/'6 crew . O- Strctclid .s'tr<:t<~}id .......................... . . stI'ctc}id ........................ . .- be stretclid ........................ .. 1» ‘fan. P. & W. 559 blocks, )10(-ks laced, placed . ’ bloéks slip, slip, , blocks, .......................... ................................... .. slip ................................... .. . blocks , ....................... .. ‘ / Slip, ........................................................ ..; ............................................ .... .. placed, ......................... placed ................ ..... placed ................................................................ . . placed ................................................................. . . P. & W. 589 };or:(; I‘l'l(?Il . KS 93623,, 15.4; W. 589" HA1le ro. Hap U ' fhr‘icé - _ Hap _ thrice Hap thrice one Who sees his one Who sees his one W}xo sees his one who sees his thrice Imp- py thrice hap-p_y thrice hap_ py . thrice hap_pyv time ............................... . . and tilde‘; ........ . . time .......... .. and tide-‘. By i - dly By I’. & W’. 589 Pit} Alle ro. ti(le!__ ........................................................... -- tide! ............................................................... .. Pit} Allegro. .4: ' ' is ' +—T. -— szgmpre ﬁg’ ])(I.\'.s'() 6%. N9 8. DUE T. t . ‘As 1n a dream’? Andante. J _—_ 96. S(,PRA.\.0_ Pit} m0t0.J=l26 And when the And wlwri the Pifx m0to.J=l26. hot, long day was o‘<:r,.... The young man at tho Mas _ tet-’s _______________,_ _ hot. long‘ y o’er,....The _y0ungman at the Mas-ter’s ? K‘ 5 P. <6 VV. 559 ér(>.¢, Sat with the Sat with the maid - en calm and with the p m//, V A Andante. 41:96. 1naicLer1(~a1n1 and sfill, calui and...... still. (17 1')/z._ P Pa.//. maid_en calm and still, calm and Alldallfo. 41:96. sr>mplI7ce° — P 711 And with (1 ' with _ I'.& w.. ass: i i »A11o,9:rett0 ma non troppo. o:-.144. 2710//(1 (wlnfa/21'/v _in ﬁle )_orch, :1 lit _ tlv 1n<n'£*. R0 , m0v'd ]m_Vo11d the" 1/Ia/[0 (rmzlu I/V " _ in the porch, :1 lit tlo more Re _ movﬂ be_‘V0nd the All . tto :1 non troppo. J = 14+. L/I ’\ _ c-hill. Tlw fa __ ﬂwr sat, and told them tlale-.s,.... chill, .- _ sat, . ........... . . [T \ and told than tales Of wrec-ks .......... .. in the great Sep _ (/1) and tuld them tales Of wrecks .......... .. in ‘L .g‘r<~at Sop- Elff tem _ ber ga1es,Of 5 rates - on the Span _ isli ' c" 3-. tem _ ber gales,Of ' rates up_ on the Span _ ish CF83. _ es}; rr>'.és. The chance and chano-e 8$‘})I‘PSS. And ships that no _ vor came back a _ gain, 657,) r'P$‘.S‘. .ai._10r‘s life, .......... .. Waxxt ..... .. and plon _ __.“*_=-. CI'P.S‘. a _ gain... The cham-e.... P. & ‘W. 589. BPOCO agitato. J = 1.60. rest and sai _ lorfs‘ life). P000 itato. J-_-.-160. B held her breath At the ‘L? _ mr and tales of that aw,fu1 ‘ mys _ tor- V. trcmh Jing maid__en pi _ ti _ 1ess_scav,Wit}1 “T The dim, dark I}? The dim, dark Dmth, 3%: Am £11119.) = 96. nites‘ man _. kind! a - nites man - kind‘. I Axldalmxa = 96. And when _ov_ vr the oldman P. & ‘W. 589 Pix‘; moto. o'.—_126. And when ov _ or ‘the old man Pit} 111010, J:-.126. pan9”d, ......... .. gleam From the bowl of his p(/0!(.:z» P (v,-a.nz’(zbI'[€ while .......... .. gle am frmu the (1/1'2iz;. lent grouptin the twi —_ light Wxllct a _ white it __ lame the Si _l0nt gloom , group, And ‘thought ful fa _ ces, \~—-»/ at (?aI2i(l1)l'[(+ V (troam ................................................................. ... ......... .. as in eras‘. . > ' ' tth()IIght _ \’\‘ 88]) P683. ..—_—:i_— ad [(7). and ’(h(>IIg;htfI1l and tlxotxghtfxll droax n . 11 {em Y P e.¢pre.s*.s'. - pr r0/Hm/u. #3‘ Pat’. Vs’. 589 ad‘ /17). . And‘ thoughtful ad lib. And -_th'm1ghtf(V11 fa _ ces, fa _ ces. N9 9. RECIT AND CHORUS. (Male Voices.) “Build me straight, O worthy Master.” Alle ro. 2152. BASS. SOLO. A11da11t(;. con 1n0t(_)'o|‘ =lO&$. day the ves_ sc-1 grew’, 1th strong and And a ’_round the bows and a -10 — fashibn’d .... .. tun _ bars the A Side The hea _ vy _4'-/_...’»——: A_Aﬂegro ma non troppn. oi-=l35 ham_mm's and ma1_.1ets plied, 711 re°(3‘l't. ‘Till af_ tér’ ma _ n_y ‘Von- der_ ful .......... .. s't'ren<__>;tlx, ma/'caz‘(l) “$327.5. Andante _c0n mote, J.-.108. . -,ca/ztzzblle lime "in its en__ or_mou.% bulk,Lo0m'd a _ loft .... .. thesl1a_dow_ y 9%: agila tr) _ . P hulkl~ And a _mid the clam0ur.s' Of clatterirxg hammers, He who co/Zr? war’ ' listeml heard now and then The song of the Mas- tor and his P. & W’. 589 C CHORUS. TENOB I. . "A'Bui1{1 me Straight. 0 WOI‘ﬂ1_V Mastersiaunch and ’ Cnonrs. ; ' TENOK u. - “B uildu 2 straight, worth_y _,Staunch4 and CHORUS. “Build , . raight, 0 worth_y Mastm',Staum-h and CH()RI_'S. ’ Bu.» n. ‘(Build Straight‘, 0 worth__/V Master, staunch and strong‘. a ' .'_ . zv That Shall ' strong, a . That ‘Shall ,sfr()ng', a . That shall- Ves_ sol, That shall. P & V" Ms!) whirl _. wind WI'0S._ tie? whirl - wind wres _ tie? as _ ter, whirl _ wind wres _ tie‘. Build me with whirl __ wind wrés _ tle? .—_ 0 “Build me straight, 0wor’1h_ y Mas _ tor, a g'ood_1y "Build me straight, 0 worth_ y Mas- ter,Staunch and strorig, a good- _y "Build 1110 Straight, 0 worth-y P. 4% Vt’. 539 vvs _ sel . Straight Mas _' tar That shall Oworth _ y seLThat shall Staunch and strox‘1g;, good - Iy Build 111(- Build me Build me Build me Straight. 0 worth __ _‘ Mas _ter,S’tauuch and straight. 0 worth- 0 M;1s,ter,Staunch and straight, 0 worth _ Mas _ ter,Staun<-h zunl Straight, 0 worth- v M;1s_t(‘r,Staunch and ms. so]. That .s'huH lau<_>;}1 ves _. sel, That shall lau}_>;h Thai shall lauwh ‘T3 was. se], That shall laugh P. & V5’. 589 as _i tori And with whirl _wind wres _ tlo, shall as _ tar And with whirl, wind wres _ tie. shall 6 as _ tor And with ' Whirl_wind wres _ tie, shall as ._ ter And with whirl _wind wres _ tle, shall with whirlwind with wave and whirlwind [ wave and whirlwind -<."”"_.._ wave and whirlwind Wit11 oak _ en brace c0p_per. It Wifll oak I. en Lies lt With oak _ en V c0p_per _ Lies the '2} cop- per ‘ Lies the mzvv, 539 on the Thatl ike a Thatglikc a M on the That like a t11<)r1g}1t, > That. like a thought, thought, ' shall have con trol 0_vo‘r the ' > thought, . shall have con trol 4 O_ver thv shall have con trol 0_ver the > 0 0 shall haw clon _tr<.)I O_ver the In ovoine nt 1nuv(-mvnt movement Inovmnent whole; »\~'ho10; whole; whole; giant ‘,4-.u.I| down __________ whose _> (‘h01‘~ whnsv ‘Sta. P.& VV. 589. . grap ,. ple with the giant hand Will g-rap._ lple giant hand Wﬂl reach down . grap_ ple with ilxe giant hand Will reach down g‘l‘ﬁp_ ple with the ‘l7 mov_ a _ Mn Hold the mov_a _l)l¢= » _ Hold the mov_a _blo - Hold the moV_. a __ l)l£‘ Hold the l7>- gamst gains‘: galnst gainst b]ast?:: .................................................. .. “Build me ‘ “Buﬂd me “Budd me ‘ﬁ‘Bm1d straight, Owur" _ tvr. Staunch and strong, <frai}_{’ht. V wot-th_._y Mas _ ter, Stzumch and strong, straight, Ow0rth_y . _ ter, Staunch and strorxg, straight, 0worth_.y _» tor, Stzumch and strong‘. That shall laugh .‘ And with That shall laI1g'h' all dis _ .' . And with laugh H .' And with L That s laugh .' And -vs ith O o O and _w‘hirlwirxd wrcs gtle’? and whirlwind wx-es _ tlof’ V Bqﬁd “HI and whirlwind wres _ tle? ‘and whirlwind wresl _ ‘deg : “Build me straight ‘O w0rth___y “Build me traight, W01-th_'_V> straight, worth- Mas _ tor, a g00(L y vus __ sol, O w'<;rth_y “Build me traight, O w0rth_y Mas _ ter, Staun(~11an(1 CF83. o Mas- tor,’ Staunch and strong, a’ goodjy ves‘_ sol,” T}..\L shall V Mas _ C Mas _ t(‘I'9 for, Se], That That That That $111111 shall That shall shall shall Q89. P.&‘Q.’. 59? I And with A whirl And with And with And with wnos-_ ﬁe!” nmrrrato P.& W 589 “Build A - straig;ht, 0 worth_ y Mas, ter, Staunch V “Build 3 striligtnt, 0 worth _ y Mus _. ter, Staunch "Build , straight, 0 worth _ _y Mas- ter, Staunch Straight, 0 worth- y Mas __ ter, Staunch Ves _ s<-l, That shall veS_ sel, That veg- sel, That shall ves_ sel. That tor, And _ ter, And .‘ _ tér; And with wlth _ ter, And with wlth whirl _ wiﬁd whirl V _ wind - whirl _ wind _ 12:? N‘? 10. RECITATIVE & ARIA. "Ah when the Wanderer?" AI1da1m+..1n:L non tr0pp0.J=l26. . /\ /-\ FIANU. 0, Cox TRALTO. - Ber,-it rfzmzs-7' oz iempu 3e_h;>l.d, at last, Each tall dz}/1; _ ur tom:/Jr) swung in _ to its place; A ,_//’-’‘‘’‘—T\ . . _ uasl I‘¢°C'lf. . . Shrouds and ._ stays Ho1d_ ing it firm 4,, \K________________,,/ P. & VV. 3&9 A . Aﬂegrotto. J: 152-. I) mezza vocc fast‘ And ev’ _ //"-T ry—where The soft PPd(I/. s1vn_ dor. race _ ful Poise a V?’ at the mast /"""’ W"}1ite, blue, and r perdmzdr) ARIA. Andante. J —_- 8+. B_ e.s‘pre.s's. P (W7!/zo11L‘V sqft Pk(/rt/.) I pnc-‘o rI'2‘H2 . p ‘(:0/'2 e.s'press. Ah! when the wan- do;-_er, 0 friend _ 1055, for _ eign .... .. har_bour.s‘ shall hold That flag un _ ro119d,.....A ’Twill be as $ VF’ han(l..... Stretchll oui from his na _ ﬁve land, .... .. k? dim . Fi1_ ling his heart with me_ mo_ries sweet and e nd.1ess‘. ' ' p ling heart 1n0_ries sweet and €.‘,‘})I‘(:“.S‘.S'.- ‘ T ‘Fil .. ling B15 heart . j with mo _ ries /”"v"'“"‘$\ 1n0._ ries ugitctto pm.-0 (zrras. /41//2n. D and (‘W1 '_ !f‘SS! AN 7 when the canta/)1/r~ ’ T .1. 1y, friend. 1055,‘ In for _ eign.... V bar- boars shall be _ hold That flag P. & W. 5:49 roila, ‘Twill be- as a friendl‘\ 11a11dStretc1fd.m.rtfrom his na _tiVe ‘Z [1000 I‘l.(FIl. heart with me _. 1110.. ric-‘S sweet and Fil _ ling his ‘*F\—-—-—--« r with me _ mo _ ries F ‘ . P-&VV.589 N‘? 11. RECITATIVE 8: SCENA. “To-day the,Vesse1 shall be launched? Allegro con bI‘i0.o| :.l52. SOPRAl\'0.. 1mzrcato A fin _ >is}fdY length ‘. come the bri ._dal co//an ‘vac? [)3 m//. A a tempo day Of beau _.T_t‘y_ and of strength. V r((//. ‘Ea. Pit‘; Allegro. es; = 10+. day the Ves ._ so] shall be 1aunch'd'....,... Wi h flee _ clouds ........... .. . '. v ‘ b1anch’d, ....... .. — Slow- 1y, ' tu ._ ries old, ..... .. P. dc V5’. 589 Up and less to \ Pa_c-es’ rest _ down the sands of His b(*at_ing gold . and And v fur ﬁg-i‘:_:— Wit}1 cease _ less P. & VS’. 589 can esp .9. Lpoco ad 113.. heard of snow “eaves with Co/la Z-'0(:0 > /"T brgast . . . H0 waits im _. C a tempo bride. _ ......... .. a t«>m/)0 There she stands, Witll her the he av _ foot .......... .. -mg of sand§, ........... .. Deck’d with flags, déc~kH with flags and stréaxxlers hon - our‘ of her mar- riagevday, Her sn0w—white. . flu’: _ tor _ ing, blend _ ing, ............ .. Rea-dy to be‘ ............... .. The bride of the Andante. J -_-. 80. \/‘\3, can (?sprP.s'.s'. On can rwlpress. deck an ._ 0 - thér bride W hor lov _ 0-r's side‘. dows”... from the flags and shrouds, Like the sha \ [)()C0 C’I‘(’.‘~‘. by ' clouds.- >§< 6533:,’ round ﬂmn on the M 12% 3: ‘QED’ P. & W’. .')h‘.0 Allegro molto. o'=104 clouds ..... .. sky is r"x_.———/ —< To — day the ves_s0ls be launc-H(U with flee __ cy blanc-h’d, And o’er the bay S1ow_ly,_ ‘in P. & WV 589 all hlssplendoursv dight, .... .. The great ................... .. ii. .905 to be _ hold ves_. shall b(‘_ unch’d'.....- ..... .. with flee. ‘ clouds the . t is b1anch’d, .......... .. And 0’er all his 70 fl‘: ores. {T splerldours (light, ...................................................... .. The great sos ................................. .. to be _ hold the ‘iizzb. F ‘pdolce .€£ g,\ﬂ«¢to sight, in all ................... .. his splon _ hdours digght, 10 great ............ . . _/ g/' __/’ J _/ ./ P}; .<wmp/we /nil} u,.«_{“/z’u/o P. & V’. 5249 poco rifelz. 6 con pzz.s'sz'm2e *\ Pin Allegro the Y. & ‘W’. 5&9 N912. SOLO 8: CHORUS. “The prayer is said.” roligioso. J: 69. SOPRANO. ALTO. TE.\'0R. BASS. Andante religi0so.J =69. pmqft I’evda[.) semprw .s‘ost»°nuz’o :0 legato . /_ ‘Siam. ::§< ‘Sta. I 651*)‘ 55‘: 5; P‘ & ‘W. 589 CHORUS. Cuoms. CH.0R['S. Cnoaus. sn.¢tenu lo prayvr is said, The su.s-/Hmto prayer is Said, The uslrnuto prayer is said, The ]) .s'().€t€/llltr) . prayer is said, The P .m.s'te/m/0 o o /2017 (out soft Pedal.) groom bows his _ gI‘OOlI1 ............... .. s‘or_vice ser_vice S er_vice sex-_vico h I joy _ ous L bride_.gro01n _b0ws his read, joy- OHS read , The joy_ ous bride /—-‘S / ‘joy; ous p()C() (,‘I‘PS . the old ....... .. tears.n. good nd ,1) (100 ores . 95 bows his ix 1 P000 CI‘r°.9‘. P. & w. 539 0 ter Shakes the brown hand of his 0/1';/1.. "h tears the good ol .... .. dim. tears the good old a’1'm . head’; i the good old Mas‘ - dim . his \ daugh__tei"s glow-‘ ing cheek In Si _ lenco, dim . his daugh _ter’s glow; ing‘ cheek In si ‘_10nce, .. his dang-h _ ter’s glow- ing cheek si __1ence, his (laugh - ter’s glow_ ing check In si._1ence, (T A ‘Ea. _* P. & W. sag scmprc ‘ And ev _ or . , V Down his fas _ ter» m(,'o /'I'tr- /z . ‘(oars be ._ gin poco rile): . L~_ C an _ poco ﬁtn- o~in ....................... .. P5 . 112000 1'! tan . -'n"‘.i'<?"3 pact) rito-n. 7‘ P. & V5’. ‘589 " .150 BASS SOLO. ’B Moderato. 0‘.-.100 gzmsi Rec-it. The worth- y pas ._ tor __ The shep _ho_rd of that wand’- rixlg; a tempo flock,‘ That has the 0 _; mean for its wold, That has a tempo for I its fold, fromrock ta rock- ~}'g«‘53¢’b. P. It ‘N. 589 mild and clvar, $655. dim . words CAndm1te. 0‘: 72. (‘ I‘P$‘. “Like un _ to ships..... far" Out_w.-nrd or ho1nv_w.-xrd "bound, fore, be_l1ind, ' all a _ round, Fl0atsandsM'i1'1g_s the ho _ ri _7;0n's bound, ..... .. SPOIIIS at its dis _ {ant rim to..... rise And c-liuil) tlx0....crys_tal wall of tmskics, And then a _ gain”. to turn and Sink...... As if we could slidt‘ from its P.& W589 D Allegro agitate. 0' #138. brink. (93 77:58, 7'55"? U1 P ¢°-*‘}H‘P-*'.-S‘- -=7: poco 'cr{-es. Ah‘. bit is not.,... the sea. It is not the sea that ~ 5: 1'Ti.m. 5173?‘ W‘ 1 0 sinks and shelves, Brit... our_se]vosTh:1t rock . and ri.s‘e.... 4 . 7” crps. u‘,c_(I[at'u’ Q I end _ less and un _ eas _ yxno _ ttion, Nowtouch-._ 'ing the ores. ’ ilato 0 0 f""fff° t ( .1‘ rvskics, Now sink _ in EAnd_ante religiosom’ = 69. dc.-pﬂls . .. P snff Pa 041/ SOPBANO- .s'o.<((»m1/0 AI To T he pr:1.y< -r is said, Sm-_viee read, V Tixeprnwr is said, .- s0r_vioe read, ATEMR. .s-'osz‘Pn1/tr) ' T115‘: rayor is said, s<:r_vice road, BASS lenzzlo ’ The prayczr is said, T110 ser_vi(~r-\$_‘\road_, BASS SOLO. .3’ . ’ 1. 0’ AM if our souls but poise and swing Like the sr;$£'P)Il(/0 . X . . '5/tout sqft Peda 1,) P.&\Y.589 ' y;_ous bride _ rrroom bows‘ '5' head; j()y__ou.s‘ bride _ groom bows bis be.-ul: rayer JO)/_0XIS bride _ gro()1nbow.s'his‘ lwml: )rayor j0y_ons bridv groom bows bis In-ad; prayer (\ /'5 /-\ (-0 pass in ' 3 br;1_ zen ri ])()(.'0 jo‘y-ou.s' bridvgrooum ' ‘ bead, C .5‘. joy_0us bridegroom bows his ' ” /Uuco —cl‘r/.5‘. _jo_y_ous bride crroou bows his )C'() 83C . ‘o _ou.s'brid0 room J y (‘I'(‘.§:.g er true To /“the toil and task we have to do, We shall TV\-~/ P. & V’. 559 head, ............ .. head, .......... hoad, bows bows ......................... .. .‘)’_._ §\ sail se}_cIxt'¢~_ly, and _ ly reach The For- ttmatc Isles on whose head; J0). (:r'e.s' " J0)’ 0r'e.s‘. — ours‘/_\ 3" :3 shin _ i Q b(}achThe sights we SCP, and the sounds we hear, Will be’ P. &VV. 589 (Y 1'»; . gl"09lI1 bride groom bows his ride groom bows his bows his brid¢.3 ’ those of and ' joy ‘P I'21y€ I‘ P rayer prayer P rayer \__./ P, & ’W.. 589 -’>x‘~' N9 15- RECIT &cHoRUs. “And see! she sﬁrs.” - Allegro" con spirito. J .—: 176. ‘>313 as TENOR SOLO. Then the Mas- tor, with a l'o°(,‘I?._ # . o Q6-;f'S_tIIl‘('} of ootnxnantll/,1” Wa\'€dhis hand; J’ W:V,m:'§.:_ -)!5(m:¥::}~r<z4- __ . .. ._ .1 ., .. ‘A '''J\ v.*'«:»'.=r'?{':“FX?“ "9 “ AA11e;:§>,-_4__=1:>;<.>_-_.\ m .\“r3.:‘V..-.;v:4_--.v Loud and sud _den there was heard, a tempo All _ round thorn and be »_ low e sound of sr»m/Jr!’ (1 Iain ham- mars, blow on 1) ow, Knock- ing .s'«vn1pr-re agzlzzta The shores and spurs. ' /3 _ Allegro con Lbrio. J =1-H.’ ' B CHORUS. . A119 ro Inoderato. B Allegro moderate. J-_—132. 25: L 5\\_ \ -2? 5&1.’ £m'..s'.¢0 ' '_ P. & W. saw She starts, she C She starts, she \/ life ..... .. -9- , 6%. f1} cm .s'. The thrill of ('11 (:r'r».s=. The thrill of IHOVCS9 __. life life”... pix} crows. 3 ,._ lUH(7‘ H sempre pit} agitato She moves,‘_,__ _ sempre zu agltato She 1noVes_-‘. _ sempre zu agztato Sl1f‘_§€6?1nS to sempre ‘pm agltato sheseeiiis to I u agz ta to IIIOVQS, __. 3811(1) 7'6’ __ ' a Jonq her keel, And keel, ..... .. ['1/flit cn<2.9. U a Jung her P. & ‘W 589 she seems to feel-.. feel.... she seems The thrill of The thrill of i A110 ro molto. sprxrn; ing a_ long her keel, And 7 spam. ing A :.-108. Alleg molto. . Sp [IP11 _ lllg‘ ground, spurn_ ing ground, } ground, ground, SPIIPII __ Hlg ._ with her foot ground, Spurn ._ U'lg with her foot ground, 1*“ Spurn - ing- hcr foot her with her foot the And, with her foot the C with hvr not the ground , .................. ;:rQx.111d, And. Spurn _ ' lg with her ixlg; with ................................... .. her foot the < 3 groutld. And, I SPIIFII C -with her foot the ground, . :.=-» hvr foot the ground, —i ‘ ' ground, Spurn > P. 42 W. 5897 (A[.g¢z‘tcztQ bground, Witlx agila ground, ‘Vith agilalo ground, Witll agz't'az‘o ground, Witll agllato ul _ ting CI’€»8‘ . ul _ ting eras. 111 _ ting ' .‘ bound, C'7'€.$‘. _ u1_ ting ' . 3 bound, P. & ‘W 589 V» s. ;‘\‘\\ §»\ \ \‘ . \v\‘\ i\ N TENOR Sono, D RIELIT. 10? from the assem _b1.d RECIT. loud, " .4!/eugro. ‘ Cnonts. Alleggro. ' " Take he r, "Take her, “ Take he r, J.‘/'” crowd That to the O bride _. groom, O bride _ g‘I‘O0lll, O bride _ gI'0OIIl3 groom, There rose a Shout, o_ cw-an seemdto p ro1ong'H and say,‘__ 0 arm.s'_. ........................ .. ‘T vouth yoxxtln youth youth /""""—'-——‘T"""""""—"‘% charxnsﬁf ...................................... __ charms !".’. ______________________________________ __ charms ‘.1’ ....................................... . . charms !'.’. ............................................. .. > tram . p cam,/a/;I'/«» .0 N9 14'. QUART E TT. (U7l(lcc(m1p(( nzedf) “How beautiful she ' ., Moderate. _ dozce .‘_v_n-RAM). SOLO. How beau "ALTO. ’ SOLO. Tezmn. S014). BA.ss. SULO. How Modorat0.J = 104 P12A1\'o. Shethes with- in these arms, That press Her "fun-Ln She lies with _ §/ arms, those arms e lies with- "in these arms, That press Her - . 0 She lies with _ in those harms P. &W. 589 rcss, How fair" She lies with _. lies with __ in those fess, How fair She lies with _. fair she has with _ 1n ‘those arins. arixis, arms, press .......... .. Her these arms, _.f0rm f()l'lTl .......... .. ncss IIOSS ' l’l(.‘SS A flﬂ 6 legato Of tcn_de1-' Pp 0 legato ca réss 0'1’/1: . Of tcn _dcr- (to with ca ._ rcss e [(4 ca- rcss [Of tcn_der with sm/zpro Caro?" Of tcn ness and watch 3////2/Jr» ID and watch _ ful tcn _ dcr ncss and watch 1’ Of .5‘ H/[prev care? _ and watch _ ul Of tcn _, ~ SfrIIIpI'r“_ 2 /r«g¢n,‘o W21 chful care! and Of ‘ten ._ dcr _ ness and_ watch P. & \V. 589 ful éare? I ten _ dc:-_ ness ten _ d0r_ ness ten _ der-_ ness ten _ der._ ness poco crex. /, teni _ der _ ness C'7'(’-5'. 0 ten _ der _ ness P000 6‘ ten _ der _ ness pdco eras-. ten _ der‘_ ness watch watch _ ful watch - ful F. & \V. 589 watch _ ftil watch __ ful Watch _ ful watch _ ful care? How beau- tli _ ful she 1 care! How beau _ ti _ ful she care! HOW beau _ ti __fu1 she How She lies wit}1_ in CI‘/‘S. fair shg iios C - . 8‘ fair She lies‘ »£?i1h_ in crew. _ beau _ fi L. ful she can 9"-\‘,I} rr2.s2_s~. . O Hei‘ PTCSS PPCSS - - - - - - - Q o v - - o - - - o - - - - - - - - - - . 0 . those Wiﬂl _ 3.111159 in ..... .. arms, those thai. those P e /Pgtrfo ress Of ten _d(*r _ ness, and watoh._fu1 ﬂ I? /egczlu ress Of ton _.der _ Iless, and watch._fu1 P P‘ /(gala Of P [r{r__r(Ito arms,Of ton _dm' _ ness, and wat<~11_fu1 . and watc}i_. {.11 and watch _ ful . and watch- ful .. andwat<-11- ful ton _de1-_ness tvn _der-ness ten _ d(3I‘_l’1€SS te-n_d(>r_n_ess care? » Of care? Of ness, Of care! ‘Of [I]? rail. and watc P ra//_. and w’atch_fu1_ care? PP 17- A and watc-h_ful fall. and w'atci1_f'ul N‘? 15. FINALE QUARTETT & CHORUS. “Sail forth into the Sea? Moderato. J: 8+. «§< Allegretto grazioso. J_—=A1O8. {T \_y P d0[C’P ’ {T 177 Moderate. PP ac «stab, A CHORUS. . J Allegretto grazloso. :..- 08; SOPRANO. Sail forth ‘in to the sea, 0 forth in_. to the sea, 0 forth in_ to the sea, 0‘ Sail forth in _ to the sea, 0 /P A Allegretto ma non troppo. L Through wind and Through wind and Through wind and Through wind and A wave,rig~ht on _wa1-cl ___.———--——’{""' . wave, right on _ward __________. wave, right on _ward ________...._L_—-——-- waw, right on __ ward right on_ward steer.'ThrQugh wind and «< right on_ward steer-?Through wind and < right on_ward steer? Through wind and -< right 0n_ward steer-YThr0ugh wind and right on _w§1rd «—-;' i»- right on_ward -< } ri;_I;ht on_ward «=1: 1» steer! right on_ward P. «E ‘W. 589 Sail Sail Sail Sail forﬂn forth forth forth ship! ........... ..Through wind and sliii) ............. ..Through wind and ship? ............ .. Through wind and ship? ........... ..i..T11rough wind and on _ward The moistened on-ward steer? The moistened 12 (/0106 steer!The moistened The moistened 2"‘—_"‘$ P. & ‘N. 589 poco crest. ' tremb _ 1ing- ‘ ' , not the Signs ' ores. tremb _ ling lip, Are not the not the poco cres. tremb _ ling " , not the signs of {ed 1 J '' poco CI'PS.- B or ...... .. fear, Are not signs... of dim . ~ signs of doubt 0/im . doubt... of doubt ,L. P. &‘W 589 of doubt or fear ' ....... .; ...... .; ................................... .., ........ ..'..’.’;'.'—;"..”;;‘. forth.... ‘in to thcsea, 0 forth.... in- to the sea, 0 {#01-th.... in_ to the sea, 0 forth.... in_ to the sea, 0 /-T /\ iﬁﬂa. P. & ‘W. 589 Through wihd and Through wind and Through wind and Through wind and — wave, right 0n_ward j___{__ wave, right on_ward ’{__,.._ wave, right on_ward ‘o. wave, right on- ward steer! 1’; &VV. 389 right on _wax-d right on_ward right on_ward right 0n_ward d -—< right 0n_ward -;—f‘__. on_ward fight —< right on_ward right on_ward steer‘.Through wind and —-i steer! Through wind and —-—-—:_1" steerTThrough wind and —--:-_f_‘ steerYThrough wind and - stc,er!ThI'ough wind and C 7'65‘. steer!Through wind and C 7'83 . steer!Through wind an CI‘€.S'. steer!Thr0ugh wind and wave, right on_ward . ‘ forth 1n _t0 the right on _ward Sail forth’ ° wavmright on_ward A ‘ Sail forth in_to the M‘z1\'e,rig‘}1t 0n_ward stem, Sail ‘forth .................. .. in _t0 ship?Thr0ug'h wind on _ward soa,T}1rough wind ',.__‘ , 0n_ward ship?Thr0ugh wind on _'ward P ship?" Through wind ' '5 on _ward P. & W". 589 Allegro, J:.-1-1+. I5. 4; w 5x9 Ear not each sud_d0n Ear not each sud _den Erar not each sud_d0n Féar not each su'd_den and shock, each sud- den sound and and shock, each sud- den sound and shock, and shock, each sud- den sound and shock, . _ and shock, each sud- den sound and 0 > ‘S2/en. PP ’Tis OT the wave "Tis of the wave P 'Tis of the wave 0 ‘Tis of '3?-. p. .92 W 5139' rock; ‘T115 but f]ap_piI1g~ * rock: ’TiS but the flap_ ping‘ i— rock,‘ ’ 1e flap_ ping rock; ’Tis but the flap- ping D‘. Pit} Allegro 9 con fuoco. aJ_—_u6, gale? of rock .... .. gale? of r0ck...... gale! of rock .... .. ' ale Y- . D ” Pit‘: Allegro’ e con fnohco; of rbck .... .;. % f .... .. and tem _pest's .... .. and tem_pest’s Vand te1n_p0st's and tem_pest’s P. & V5’. 589 -gr falseni.‘ % lights of false...‘ ..... .. lights of false... lights of’ false....;,;..... lights bruast bx1x1st breast breast P. & V’, ‘.389- a/1/Jasslbmt/0 .S'.P’IlIlU/'(’ ('."l‘.S' . p000 ritmc. ‘Sh. 1VIod0rat0. J - _—_ 76. r. breast breast ........... .. f Sail _ bfcast Modoram. *%o. P. & V". 539 hop<*.s'. hearts. ....... .. our hopes, hearts, ....... .. upes. hopvs, V t})<)<?. ......... .. P» & \\'. Z".>.\9 breast breast breast breast #9 . ‘Ea. hearts, hearts. h0arts- . hopes, llopes , hopes . hop 0.9.. hopo.s'. hoz1r’(.s', 1'1} hmlrts, prayers. V . prayers, prayers, fears, tours. P. & VV. 359 flxitll f}1it11 f}1it}1 f}1it}1 ”""* ~ < ' : ‘L. phant phani pllzlrxt f'(~z1rs. ....... .. 7 phant f(‘Z11‘S . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. ..... ;,/"'*’*‘ {vars . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. o >%: >§:%. Sim Z-—-;_’ 4/?» awil b ~— fora)" forth forth SP3 inxg‘ trust P.& T5259 a1l.f..... ad forth P, & \\'. 5‘\‘J the sea ..... .. ' of P. & VS’. 58!) ———?......———IIlljIIII {llrtha ing‘. h‘u.s‘t the sea ....... .. of luv _ _ Sail ‘ forth 13+ P. (in V. f).\9 SOPRANO. SOLO. trust _ SOLO. trust _ C Homrs. SOPRANO. A C HORES. CHORUS. O CHORUS. trust, .................... _ _, trust, .................. .. and ' cfes. _ . _ tle _ poco Cres. / . love and trust- mo/[0 cres. Pre _ Vail mo/to c . Pre _ Vail o'er molto cres. Vail o'er 7210! 6'0 (,‘I‘P.S'. ail mo/to crws. wave .................. . . '\ \ ' ‘ poco rz'te.22. SOLO SoPRA.\'o. 1* 9 . ‘ rlte/2. . SOPRANI; SOLO ALTO with ALT1. co rile/z. . Sum TEI\'()I{ with Txcxom. Sum BASSO mm BASSI. PIANO. H _ wa bound, ward..... bound, uund, ward..... ound, home ward..... bound, souls ........... . . souls ...... souls ........... .. .{"'”—"‘$ ' - .1. C0111 __ P8555 com - pass com - pass com _ pass .P.&- Visas» 34’ ‘E525. P. & V5’. 589 St‘ _ (‘IlY'(f ZlIl(l S21 0 l shall .s‘l1;1ll shall slmll V 50 _ (-urol and .s':1fe _ _V and safe ‘£Q_ I’. & W. say sziil s<>_r-u1'-v_l'V. slmll sail sail, shall ......... .. sail ........... .. so _ d ﬂ slmll 21-3 .S‘€III})I‘P pfzl Zalo 6 can pa.s'.s'ionr= sail s<-(-um-I_\‘ and ‘ ’ 1'c21(*h T110 ('1'! S. reach lwl*1Vn-_txx_nu1w .. . ﬂ ' v\‘]l0s<) ' ' (‘Iwas-. For _ 1u_naf0 ....... .. F01" ‘ . on whose /’—T (:r‘(»‘.s'. v\'h(>s<> ﬁx 5(1):: mp [)l'1't ¢tgif(1f(; u_n:1t<- Islvs 1)e:1(*h ssiglnts ......... .. b<*:1(-ll sigllfs 'in}_;‘ much siglxts ......... .. In-m-h siglxts K P. J1’ ‘W. 559 on '\__\Jl()S(: 1n_in;;‘ beach .... .. The sounds sounds suunds sounds sights ............ .. wv son. ......... .. and the Lsounds we hear ....... .. _, h(‘Z1I' . . . . , . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. P. & \V. In-s9 215 \ joy an those joy and iuV~ and . t : those ']<>.V and joy and ‘ not ........... . Q-........................... 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Creator: Stanton, Elizabeth Cady, 1815-1902
Date: 1897-10-20

Creator: Monks, Caroline Townsend
Date: 1954
Text: / 43 Letter from J* A* Ged&es to Capt* Jasper Parrish• Washington Oct* 24th 1814 Dear Sir, 1 have heen for some time here anxuous to hear about Mr. Howell * Should have sent a letter to him only that I thot it would most likely pass by him on the fioad* - Be pi eased, Sir, to send me a line and let me know how & where he is• The news from this place, is sent you in the Papers duly * Altho it was often talked of, we never took up the business of Ways & Means (for which we -were...
Show more/ 43 Letter from J* A* Ged&es to Capt* Jasper Parrish• Washington Oct* 24th 1814 Dear Sir, 1 have heen for some time here anxuous to hear about Mr. Howell * Should have sent a letter to him only that I thot it would most likely pass by him on the fioad* - Be pi eased, Sir, to send me a line and let me know how & where he is• The news from this place, is sent you in the Papers duly * Altho it was often talked of, we never took up the business of Ways & Means (for which we -were called) until very lately* Last Friday was the first time we entered upon said business in Comi* of the Whole Tis very uncertain how these taxes Will yet be shaped and new modelled* ihe addit tax on whiskey has been put at 15 Cents on the Gall instead of 2 5 dents as proposed by Mr. Dallas. V/here iu Cents taken from the Gall P, according to their estimate takes *2,400,000 from the tax proposed to be raised, arid Mr* Eppes proposes to take Up the Boots Saddles &c to make up the deficit. There • seems to be consederabie differ nee in opinion amongs the Fedtf here, whether we shall vote for these taxms or against them. This is a difference about formalities only, for the taxes will be raised whether we vote for th.ru or not; and tha only thing to guide us is the consideration how our conduct v ill be understood by the people who exercise the Supreme power in our land. If wshall convey the idea to the p ople that we have eonfiflenc $ in Madison &co by voting for the taxes, m do what we do not mean to do. for we never^so low an opinion of Madison and all his Cabinet, as we now have. Col$ Timothy Pickering who lives where I do, is of the opinion that kissing is not an Indian custom; that if the Indians kis. there women or children it is in imitation of the manners of White people. This I am inclined to doubt, believing that it is instinctive and practised by all nations from the most civilised to the most savage, and in all ages. The most trifling thim in the history of the.creature man, interests us all•' You will confer a favor on us by setting us right, in this matter. Please to write soon, arid much oblige Tour very Hum^1 serv rlutt#r to JmMtmr Parrish at titaftadalfaa front Jota Johnston* 0tMffla» Jbtjr If* 1800« Johnston tins stmt % standard for tho Troop via Ir* Morrii at a mark of his mtmmm. far tit® m®m\mrn of the froep* Johnston it at the eeNnaad of the Troop hmt hit 41stanee trm then fiffiilpi frett tnJctmg tl»rt«§ He it planning to resipi his sflnniMlmuAnnuity to Little Beard, 48. This mm oertifv that fop the consideration of lore and good will t© little Benrd (so aalld), 1 agr«© to give him as a present, Twenty Dollars pr. ye«r» to he pal Annually to the said Little Beard, at the town of twHL«tou, la produce aad olothing mis ha my waat, during his natural life, for the faithful payment of whloh 1 hind myself ay h#»ir« and administrates date* at C«nandaiguafkhi« 27th day f Se|>tember 1802 » (Signed} Oliver Phelps/ 46. Pittorfaf to Tioga Point Oott 30# 1790, Sir, 1 %mm ftiiiwl m mnmgp frm tho Imiirntti* Thay 011 ttwlr Thoy 6o*rlr« tint at tho P«tat*d Post and Sowtom Paint ^hmj may bo itipplio with prorltlmtu As thoy will doprad on suoh tupply* and It my lnduo# thorn to lynttfm their jmirnoy* 1 have agrood to furnish it* Cartels* Rop£>g»s fnr^ti for that profs©* With him &r© two of tho ftuwioro who arriwd horo l^it mmthg front tho Suneoa Nation* They are to return awI- A moot tho body of Itiimit to inform them that provisions will h® fstrtililied at thooo two flmen, m.grmmhly to tholr mqvm*t* At the earnest desire of two of tho Bumofs who aro Chiefs, I haw written a lottor to tha Indians whioh oaptaln Hpp>ntll hifd to you 1 audi 1 ro-wrnt you to aoompaisy tho Mmmr to Interprat tho lottor to^hia* At you m n well interpret, thoy will ten mo prot#no# for a racing for Jmmn$ and thus dolay their journey* I dosire you to amgagthasn forward as fart m possible* I am* Sir, your friend, (Signed) timothy Flooring Mr* Parishl©wspap@r Item (Sorapbook) 47. raoMAs ziwmaw? President of the UKIT -D STATIC 0? AFRICA To all to whom these presents shall coo©, Greeting. Whereas a treaty was held on the 30th day of June 1 last under the authority of the United States with the Seneca Nation of Indians, at Buffaloe Creek in the county of Ontario* and state of N. York, and at the said treaty in the presence of and with the approbation of John Taylor, Ss<pr, a commissioner of the United states, appointed to hold the sane, anairdenture or agreement was-entered into between the said Nation of Indians & Wilhem Willink and others hereinafter mentioned, which Indenture or agreement is In the words follovl ngi day HUB INDTNTUR"? made the 30th/of June In the year of our lord one thousand eight hundred and two? Between the behests, chiefs and warriors of the Seneca Nation of Indians of the first part, and Wilhem Willink, Peter Van Eeghen, Hendrick Vedenhoven, villiak, the younger, I. illink, the younger, (son of J«n) Jan Gabriel fan Staphorst, Roelof Van Staphorst, the younger, Cornelius Vollenhaven and Hendrick Stye, all of th© city of Amsterdam and Hepublio of Batavia, by Joseph llicott, Esq, their agent ard Attorney of the second part. Whereas, at a treatuheld under the authority of the United states with the said Seneca Nation of Indians, at Buffalo creek in the county of Ont rio and State of New-York, on the day of the date of these presents by the Honorable John ± ay lor, Ssqulre, a commissionar appointed by the President of the United States to hold the same in pursuance of the constitution, and of the act of the Congress in the United States in such case made and provided, a convention was entered into and 1th the approbation of the said commissioner between the said Seneca Nation of Indians and the said '"llhem W5. link, Peter VanEeghen, Hendrick Vollenhoven, * . " illink, th® younger, I. ViIlin^the younger, (son of Jan) Jan Gabriel Vanstaphorst, Roelof Van Staphorst, the younger, Cornelius Vollenhoven and Hendrick Seye, by the said Joseph Kllicott, their agent and attorney, lawfully constituted and appointed for that purpose. NOW, THIS XNSUSTUH* "lib S31TH, that the said parties of the first part for and in considers ion of the lands hereinafter described do hereb exchange, cede, aad forwver quit clai. to the sale arties of the sec nd part, their heirs and assigns, All those lands situate, lying and being in the county of Ontario and state of New-York, being part of the lands described and reserved by the said parties of th© first part In a treaty of convention held by the-B- {Copy of lewspaptr ltm"l 47' honorable Jeremiah Wadsworth, Esquire, under the 0 authority of the United States on the Genesee river the 15th day of September, 1797, in the words following, viz* Beginning at the mouth of tto 18 idle or Kogh-quaw-qu Sraak* thence a line or liiierA0#aia® parallel to lake trie* at the distance of one mile fro® the lake , to the mouth of C&taraugos creek, x hence a line or lines extending twelve miles up the north side of said creek at the distance oi one mile therefrom, thence a direct line to the said creek, thence down th© said creak to lake Erie, thence along the lake to the first mentioned creek, and thence to the place of beginning. Also one other piece at C?€araugfcs, beginning at the short* of £ lake Stie on the south side of Cataraugos creek, at the distance of one mile from the mouth thereof, thence running one mile from the lake, thence on a line parallel thereto to a point within one mile from the Con~non-dau-Y/e~gea creek, then up the said creek one \ mile on a line parallel thereto, thence on a direct line to the said creek, thence dosm the same to la,e Itie* thence along the lake to the place of beginning} reference being thereunto had will fully appear* Together with all and singular the rights, prvileges heriditamenta and appurtenances thereunto belong^ or in any wise appertaining* And all the estate, right, title nd interest whatsoever of them, the said parties of the first part, and their nation of, in and to th© said tracts of land abor* described, TO HATE AM To HOLD all and singular the said granted premises, with the appurtenames, to the said parties of the second -art, their heirs and assigns, to their only proper use, benefit and behoof forever* And in consideration of said lands described and ceded as aforesaid, the said parties of the second part, b} , Joseph Slilcott, their agent and attorney, as aforesaid, do hereby exchange, eede, release and quit claim to the said parties of the first part and their nation (the said 0 parties of the second part reserving to themselves the right of pre-emption), all that certain tract or parcel of land situate us aforesaid* , Beginning at a post marked Ho* 0 (for further detailed descrl tioa of the property, see document) &MP) «|rife # 1$ 4r ^# f|e $ $ Hfs $ $a|r ifc % 9ft To HOLE to the said parties of the first part in the same manner and by the easB tenure as the lands reserved by the said parties of the first part in and by the said treaty or convention entered into on Genesee river the £ It * h ? ; bt r t 17:r Intended to be had. In testimony whareof the parties to these presents hove hereunto, & to other indentures of the same tenor & date, one to r^rrnin with the United States, one to remain with file said parties of the first part, and one other to remain to the said parties of the second part, interchangeably set their hands and reals the day and year first above written*-3- (Newspaper Iteat > 49 Con-nea-ti-a, Ms ©ark 1 &oe-en-tv*ah-ka, or Cornplanter ^ X (his mark) Wou-dou, gooh-ka, his ©ark X Te-kon-nou-du, his mark X Te-ki-ain~dau, his mail: X Sa-gee-yes, his siark X Jaw-ye-oau-na, his mark 1 or Blue Sky Koying-quau~tah, or Young King x X (his mar& Ki-oun~doo-wand, or Pollard ^ xjhis sarisx . Gon-na-wau~de-au, his mark X Sots Vit yJ^A-r^ X or let Jacket 1 %ls mark) Gosh-kau-tough, his mark X Te-yo-kal-hos aas his mark X Ona-ya-wos, or Farmers Brother v X (his ' - So-nau-goi-es, his mark X Glfih-ka-ka, orlittle Billy, his mark X Sus-sa-oo-wau, his mark X Wllhelm &illink, pieter Van leghan, Hendrlck Vollenhoven, W. Willink, th© younger, I. Willink the younger, (Son of Jan) Jan Gabriel Van Staphorst, Roelof Van Staphorst, the younger, Cornelius Vollenhoven, and Hendriok Seye, by their Attorney. (1*&>7 Joseph lllloott.4» (Kewspaper Item) 1/ 47 Sealed and delivered in the presence of John Thompson, Israel %apin, James W, Stevens, Horatio; Jones } Jasper Parrish) Interpreters, Don® at a full and general Treaty of the Seneca lation of Indians held at Buffaloe Creek, in the county of Ontario and state of Kew York, on the thirtieth day Of June, in the year oi pt-r Ijrd one thousand eight hundred and two. under the authority of the United States. In testimony whereof I have^aet my hand and seal the day and year aforesaid. it cvaovvVTJ - J # A t ft* 8.) JOHN TAYLOR. * J® i% Known, thot I, THOMAS JIFFSHSOE, President of the united States of America, having seendand considered the said Indenture or agreement, do, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate thereof, accept, rati^" and confirm the same and eveiy clause and artiole thereof. In testimony whereof, I have caused the Seal of the United States to he hereunto affixed, and > steed the saa» with my own hand. Dons at the vL.S.iCity of Washington, the twelfth day of January, In the year of our Lord on® thousand eight hundred and three, and In the twenty seventh year of the Independence of the said United States. TEl JIFFEBSON, By the President, JAMBS MADISON. Secretary of State,, M m. Om %mkt *%r DepartMsriu it .Dearborn Stapst mm WmiMngt m Out M 3mwp$r Purrith 2§qr f* tmmrh^m Stqr letter Oot- 14 1809 W&r D«partm*mt Oetober 14th 1009 Sir, Tows of the 8 ^ ult* is received* Under eslatlflg 0lret»etafse#ii 1 thltfk it will not bo advisable for the Tusearora* to make a journey to iforth Carolina # until mm other years • I bm, Sir$ yours respeotfully, (S^o) s* Dearborn JasDtf Parrish, fttqp*v/ On bmk% Jotm Stmp lattar July tit Jfiii»r ^mrriiti l«fp ^ Oamndaigua W Y°rlc Stata of Haw York OcKptrollara Offlaa Albany July 28* 18ft# Da*r Sir Your* of tha tt^Mtant aroloting raoaipta for Xnftlan annuitiaa mM br ym9 is mm±y®4 <* I hmm 4mm a warrant In your ffevor for tS#t tha amount of your a»ouBt» * I an Sir* vary raapaatfully Your obadt Sa nrt (Sigaad) John Oanpft Ja spar larrlsh Esqr 50* To All to whom these presents shall come - Greeting - Know Ye that we the Sachems, Chiefs, & Warriors of the Seneca Nation of Indians, in consideration- of one dollar received to our full satisfaction of Horatio Jones, end in the further consideration of services rendered, and monied expended by'the said Jones .for us, and for our use and benefit, do hereby acknowledge full satisfaction for all all damages sustained by us or my of us for the non performance of the condition of a certain bond given by Oliver Phelps & Horatio Jones to Israel Chapin, inirerintlndant of Indian affairs for the six nations of Indians & his successor in office, in the penal sum of four thousand dollars and dated the thirtieth day of June in the year one thousand eight hundred and two, the condition of the said bond being for the conveyance of twelve hundred k eighty acres of improvable land adjoining either the Tonnawanta, Buffalo Creek, Allegahy oijCannedea Reservation to us the said Sachems, Chiefs & Warriors - arid the said Jones is hereby fully discharged & exonerated from all obligation & liability arising from or in any manner growing out of the said bond either to ua tor to the said Israel Chapin or his successor in office, superintendent as aforesaid - and the said bond is hereby fully canceled, discharged and annulled to all interets & purposes - and we do hereby discharge & obligate ourselves to discontinue a certain suit commenced in the supreme ^ourt of Indicature of the State of Hew York for our benefit against the said Jonesxin the name of the said Israel Chapin and acquit the said Jones from the same & from all costs, 1 charges arising therefrom - And we do further acknowledge that we have received from th© said Jones full satisfaction for all debts, demands, claim, actions & causes of action either by bond, covenant, note, amount or otherwise which we or either of us have against the said Jones either in law or equity - Signed in presents of Corn Jasper Parrish W♦ K. Dana Yong Jellis Glute Henry Obael Black Capt. Blue Little Seneka Tanis Broad U JL Planter tS L King i" " ^nake a * Pollard £ Eyes X Beard X x White ■ t. Half town vV» Head2< 50, U Twenty X. Cannons Charles St : Cornplanter 'fa.'* , , Snow X... Tall X Peter Dooatater X tvt Joeob X Elseksnake Barefoot X John X v. Snow Major X Berry Red X Jacket / §i# • Wii#hiit§ti» ft® lug 11 Ja*pmr fkrrisht liftttre Hmmmiaifum 1* Y# # S* Stqr latter Mft: Uth 1806 War D#j»rta«nt August 11th 1806 Sir tmw letter of the SSth ult# mmlmlmg the receipt of the 8rnmm Chi#ft for t6Si0f mmm inly te hmM* I mm reapeetfully Sir, Tour Ob* Sa)frt (Signed) B# Daarhorn <l**f»r Parrith* Isqr* • < m V S2* Q» baotei Itfi % Jfc#Harri« letter Febr 4» 1826 3%mmt farrlth Baqr S^meoa lliii« Feb* •» J« Parrleh Beqr Bear Sir, it to inform yw that the roll of BlamVwtt te ifeltfk imm forwarded to tho Station far the benefit of the Indian Soh ol§ has safelt oome to hand* you did not p rlioulafty mention the mode In whioh they wow f#tw* d©d 1 did not know utiere or of to inquire r^p&otlmg them* They lay in Mr* SMMnm** baggage-reeis tome weeks 1 believe before I heard tram thorn* You will please aooept this mpology* for my not mokmewledging their reooptlon earlier* Sir, Your obliged friend (Signe ) f* S* Harris J* Parrlsh isqr Oanamd&lgMi. 111! /I 89* haeki Sot Klkln^bon lotto* «epi IT. 1822 Jfeopor r-^ah twtiosK Buffalo Allegany » »o 17th 1822 Bavyaotad friend * t * 5* hm* sec* ti»o ago, at Allmgmm W *** ****** lately returned from Buffalo, that thee wi«hed her to mm at the approaching divieion of dry goods owbH the Vettveo • t",T!P3r "BP1 f«r iw ti o paot, is taking ear* of the Children aho attend aehool under ay iaatnietlon A it it diffionlt for her to fcWe , •• «owral of then are aaall ft sot oapahle of oooklng *e fbr the^eWea - The Indian wommn (Sally) la willing to leave to thyself *hat gftro her, on aeeoust of har misfortune - bain* to peculiarly situated with respeot to taking ear* of tha school children. To Jacper Parrish ** ^/ 14# m fe*e1t» 3wm® Y«ng Oot» ii # im mil . BtflWftiO 1S& Gapt* &«p*r Parish OtMaiaifM Qatarl* Co. 3#M6a «|««I#B House 11 Out* litl Vfcrrl* 4i#nt of the till mtl«ms| Sir, I mm rstquested % th* Chimin 1b ecriMll to Infbrm you that they will lo th#ir i^tifMf (as soon at it Is in their fo^r, ) to mmkm Willimi Frfattap tip the loss of his mill bat they do not mpest that tbey o^n do it as tee* us ant String but m soon ma It is in. t$t#ir pownr • They wish ycni to 1mm r#*?peetit$g the mtter anil make th* mmmmry mmwm^mmntn to th* oirowstama#s 0? the Thay hope for an mrnmr if nmmmry from you* 1 am Sir Yours, (Signed) James Young Mrs* Young Tims bad mm mttaok of twmr but is reoe**rl»i from it & (misting Tier .strength fust* H*r r#ap#ots with my mm to Irs* P your olf & family*. r-.....• ' - lumbers of the Six Nations 55 Umber a of the six nations, vim, Senekas Main Villag Buffalo® Creek mite Chiefs Village ------ Cataragrous § 9 9 9 0-9 9 9 - - -Munces Caaragrous -- <----- - • Cornplanters two Tillages Tonwanters ----------- cShanafaues- - - - -------- Genesee - -- -- -- - - - - - -Bigtree ------------- Squaka Hill----- Sa oun a dee - -- - - ------ Onandagous at Buffaloe Cr ek ----- 215 At their old Reservation - 145 Oneidas - - - -At Genesee - - - - 600 16 Tuskaroas Hiag&r.^ - - 868 At Onledas - - - 65 Cayugas at Cayuga - - - 51 «$ Buff aloe 0------22 Stockbridge Indians near Oneida To hare the annuity of 4500*,®^ 531 10? 225 145 331 104 22 81 96 190 148 360 626 325 315 The forgoing numbers of the Six Nations taken by Col. Plokering in Nov 1792 at a treaty held in Oannadaiguay-8- • of the Hx Mat loss Main Village Buffaloe Creek - - -_____331 White Chiefs tillage .10? Cataragaua .. ggg Allapany „331 Toaairande „ ^00 Geiiawagus g® Geiieaee Village Bigtree --------_____ . g6 Squeka Hill . ............... _100 Kaonno6eo .... 120 Onondague 5 C ........„ «. •«.«.„ g^g Tuskerorae ________.___„ _ „, ggg Cayjias B C, ------- - - g0 Oneida 8 at Genesee - qq Muase® at Caturagurs - - - - ._______ 143 Do at 8. Creek - - - ____ _____ 15 On Back: Rumber of the Six KationeOn Back: Oapt Chspln letter to the Seneca* Chiefs at Buffaloe July 30, 1802 5© The ^eneka Chiefs at Buff aloe Creek pr Mr* Parrish Brothers - I ara sorry to hear of the very disagreeable news from Stiff aloe ^reek that qa a of our p oplo Las been killeipy one of your people* Brothers - This news is terrl&ble disagreeable and afflicting, It naturally excites tamper anA revenue at the first aappearance • but Brothers let ua reffleot & be coll and endeavour to find© out that ought to be cone to bring our minde to harmonize & good agreement again -These things have happened and they have been settled* 1 suppose it will be ri ht in this case to take such measure® nv to have this business reconciled, and that the whole of community should not be rendered unhappy by the quarrel of Individuals• Bra - You will consider nothing impoper in taking the Indian who stab^d one mi & killfexi one o.the r and placing him. In confinement* I consider the mhite people in this respect justifiable, aa he fell on them as a mad mxi without any provication aa 1 have been told. Bra - You on your part 1 trust will do nothing rash or hastay in this business & I hope & believe the white people on their part will conduct with humanity and prudence* Bra - The President of the United States must be made acquainted With this transaction, who will enter ir,to such measures as to preserve our general peace & friendship unbroken* Brs - The reason you do not sea ir.e at Buff aloe Creek on this occasion is, The presidSfet of the 0 States has removed me from office & iMatday my off oe terminates* Capt* Irvine who 1 believes li^as at Fresqu-isle Is to be my successor, and ought to meet you on this busine^c, and ae his agency commences 1 suppose it is probably he will be with you soon* Brothers - 1 should have been happy to have your Chiefs come forward to this place as you proposed & still shall mr-eot to see you, as some business Oi importance will be left to toe transacted by me*m -2- (Capt Chapin*s letter to the Seneca Chiefs at Buffalo©} As this is the last speech that you will receive from is® as Agent of Indian affairs I hop© you will pay due attention to it, as no ore wishes more for your happiness and prosperity than Brothers your friend and Hble aervt (Signed) % -l$vae\ Chapin Canardaugua July 31 1802Cornet Parrish Capt Morris latter 1796 Canadaguai August, 1790 Sir You will cans© the Troop to be notified by the non ooafelssioned officers to meet at Canadaguai on the 8th day of September next at 10 ©Clock. I enclose to you a list of those who are still considered as belonging to the Troop and who I believe are ©quipped. If any out of them should to your knowledge have withdrawn or are not equipped It will be needless to have them notified, and you will return their names to me that their places may be filled up by those who will be more ready to do duty, I also send you your commission you will take some opportunity of qualifying before Judge Eosraer Judge Hull or Judge ^llliaasson before the meeting of th© Troop. I am yours (Signed) Thomas Morriss88. Ob hmkt &»!*&• let**r 1606 kurom XaMk isos Bnar Sir 1 wist to exotange about 28 or SO bushels of flmzmmd for Oil and not tatwlmg who th© OH mill la C^mBdalgu^ wait trouble yon with the builneas I hmg yoti to take the trouble to be informed whether I oa& hmm th© Oil at mw^ time wbmi I #4# tend and. if eo on tome and write m by the mail unlet® you havo a very diroot private opportunity the expense mnd troble would be too great to tend on UBoertainitiea • My family wo in health ** four Friend <5:0 (Signed) Proderio/ 59m ©n bmki Wm Mngtom War department Jam 6 Dearborn ■ FREE Jasper Parrish, Bsqr Philadelphia f * Dearborn Ssqr letter Jany* 6, 180° * W ar Department January 6th 1808 Sir Mr*. Granger hairing informed me that you will he in Philadelphia about the 10th Inst* has desired that I would forward you ny warrant for 16300 on the Cashier of the Bank US* on account of the Seneca Ration, X have accordingly sent the same to Mr Core, on ^km you will please to call to receive and receipt for it* I ass, Sir yours respectfully (Signe ) Dearborn Jasper Parrish, B-quireto* On 0#py #f a latter to 1#I Atefeet 6 ether* Ofelefe of the 3*a»ea latlom J, f#:4f|«14 letter June S 1B2S ? fc It' *lmelr#tt John fej>* John Bluesly Coiraplmitter, Bttrld 3kyt fept* tarter Iliwin and Bigfriar, Slaoe you hern 1 have eeem Mr. Blftghm* 1# thinks that the SuseraJ Setmeil of ail the Six Ifetlona hmm not rmmlw^ the& they will not hare a nlmimmy at feneWaiida, a a you toldw* » liee iy s that- your great eeunell will mne% in a f«w ieye* If so I would mMm jm to be quiet i* til attmr the eouTusll aeete+ *r# say$f that If they re«elre tH*t they will met hmm m mimimmy at Te ■mmmdn he will Sme-'ietely fa may Traq Ce^ Mmmn <?» leifteld tn ley June 6th 1822Ziftttw of Salltmitr Irwin to Smwm^ Hwrtlthii lay lSUt# 1S0S / Prasquo n lilt Hay 18th* 1805 i#ar Sir* I mrrimi %®m ttes aaxt day after I parted with yen* «or# fatifuad _ than my har*** & Just 1b tlM to tani ym six tardrrt dollars % Mr* land #10 tats out tomorrow for Cftnaiidalgua * two hundra of this you wilt my ^ Wr# Pollott tnking his root* th* efort spool fyin§ it *s the * , first mymmrt of a tontfmat outerod Into hy said Follatt for wmktvg a mill at the %soarora Yillago, ho food onou# to ti#l»owla%# tha root* ^ of tha arhole as mm m yon oenvaalantly aan mm& mm m rmimm of ^ th* ^ if fa out Buttons of Indians and thair ralatlv* situations* 1 hops yon fittnS til wAX m ymr arriva 1 at hi Taws «ifio#r#ly (Stpsoi) ©allandar Irwin 1 will sand you mora whan 1 hear from th* War Dopartraant, dont forgot liijor logon1 Into Shoos* • as so good an opportunity my not ooour shortly Jfesptr farrish B*qjp« I Iwra stralnd 200 mora miring #800 In all, i will trust to piwldano* for mora *1 mm t lil?f**l f * IW,; t« I i •gt J* & * ' 9 * 1 § m jk ** m-- g . # m * i £g?8fst£i 1 «*tlll{i i i! s fiii1!?!; i is «iii§ll# § 11 18 # 8 S 3*|0«f*f .alt® I 7*3*5*1** f I b * ¥ fw & 111!}!1*1 1 * 151 0 ft I 1 Q « 2 1 M# - oojar « « ^ $ oS tuffftfi i 11|!* ; .■ j rr-,, s ? || fiisiis 3S i |l , n * - js mm mm® m u If ~ I II rj^Hi « jl HRllilS pi I pfltillf t| I »« St P B m mm m S % ft* 3 tu n # 0 . m m mm w* M m**J § • 1 - # Sp & & 4 I I i fell S* I -f IX -Wet m |y, - • J' | jg f§ fte T^X^'lLAJ u • I I u 1 i 0 4> ! 04 04 f ■m 04 04 m $ m2* fmmwim to Parriali April 2t# If»f Fhiladalphia Ap**il S*» IfSi* Sir, 1 i jrmir lottar of the 28th arikferati, A mi ptotn^ yout Imprmmmmt in writing I hm& tmmm^miyou to tits 8Mfafe*iyy of Waj*t and ha will giira you m aa a atandimg itstarpratar to tha Pi to BMritaNU At soon ms you mmlrm this 1attar* o«ta to Philadelphia* and go to tha mr off las for your aprotntwmt I) inntruotiona* If 1 am mot tiara* oall on your friand Mr* Farriah to intreduos yM* (8if**d) f* PioteriBg Mr* J&apar Parrlahv/ s s* On %mk9 TmmAzy Cmmm Mm & !a®g!si§ mm m H*y 1821 to* S# ■ Duplicate ' |170 ■ , W# tha mtdarslgiMKl two wartiaf* of t>:m Seneoa liatlon of ItfUaaa "^Sm&mlm^gm to haw from i!t# %lt«" States through lagn#r ISgqra Offlea by the hamis of impmr P&rrlilt ®m hnmlm^ mti sin Dollars in fttll for our s*nr|*«ft as to tho of thm %lt#4 undor Sapt* Pollard fro» iha tut day of 1814 to tha 1st day of May 1818 * Buffalo Kay 28th 1821 ItfP#4 Saplio&t** Xsi proiMM of Jn© tay Jrf? S# P» Parrish YtNraty Canoes Hanging Traa W X . f*®# tha word "Son" after *tw®n*p Ctenoaa* aaittad b/ mlitakatetter from 1* Dearborn Psmi Erastus Granger U 64 War Department March 11th» ISO? Sir, Herewith jou will redely© a latter from Jasper Parrish addressed to this Department under date of the 21st Janyc nlt# relet lire to a horse killed by sop^ white people and belonging to Indlaft Thorns* I vish you to exaada the case and, make some reaa enable compensation to the Indian for his loss* and mi veiy raspeotfnilj Sirf lour Ob. Sevt {Signed) m Dearborn Srasjlu8; Granger t gearm letter from Thomas Morris to Capt Parrish Canadagua Sum 7th» 1809 sir It hairing b m represented to tm by you that tha ata&dard pre nan tad to the Ontario Troop of horse formerly ooonaiided by me, ws claimed by both the Oanadafiia BXoomfield Troops, and that my opinion on the Subject was wisH1 d for by the officers of both Troops, I can hair a no hesitation in staying that 1 aonaidar the Standard in question as having hmn prasantad by Capt Johnston to the Caaadagua troop to whom in my opinion it nm belongs* J am with regard Yours {Signed} Thorn&s Morris Capt Parrish /On baeV # Buffalo so tug* Capt J*aper Parrlah Gftnassdnlgix* 17 * ©reii^r letter Augt tS> lilt • Buffalo August 29th 1816 Bear Sir, t Tour letter frem 4he lastmri* also the front Canandaigtia of the 27th lust* feti reeeleed/ 1 returned yerterday free fnaearera* fe*r# pate? theei their lotioy* • the Chlefi Buffalo (e&oopt hero oons® f*rva,r4 and reeei^red their Phelpe Money* ** Jfeeket *attte4 th® le»«y to go to the hut thmy 'km® need It nil mm^pt H®f># fhey haw not inform A me they are a going - In faot they are diTidod ahent going* * 1 shell ©all thom tog#th#r tomorrow an$ lot thmm know that Imdma at the eaiimrd are waiting to hoar from tho ♦ 1 haw adiriaa thou, to call on you to go with thorn# • Will write you again on the aubjeet* - I haira but % mall aim in four Bank. - the situation of the tl as aro aueh at Buffalo that 1 must draw on the Ontario Bank for the amount of the Phelps Money In your heads* «* he ao good ma to plaoo it thoro to my Credit$ to at mmt my dreffcf m&ioh will he oalld for lest Monday yours? ifith raapoet (Signed) Iraatus Qrmgmr J« Parrish iaqr,/ ®f* On Writ, Q&py e? a lottmr to tHe St* Begit Inflame Jmisy S# 1824 f@* t Ag#noy of the V«8« to the Six lotions of Indiana *» Cammfeigm* M Smmty 1828* the OMeft Warriors of th# St* Regis Indians ) Brother®^ X iMMNp rooeited from your Father ths Fj* tl4knt 0f fho United States, ooaplaint against you for disorderly oonduot tar-ard your iplghbourt* in Mmlttlmg depravations end via moo snrar ths boundary line, on British subtests* ** Brothill health presents me from irl siting f®*® p^rton* * Tho bearer of this letter it my son* ♦ Be mill •cr* ^mieate to you tho ish of your fa tho r tho President* • You will ploaao attend to Mi oommioation* and aoqualnt him with til the faote and eirea^tanems in relation to the difficulties that <s*is* bat" ean you and your neighbour* • Tour friend and brother* <* (Slgne i) Jasner farrish Sub Aenfc68* Tha Kola of the Ontario Tropp (List of names) nyiOntcu' N fj^M IMcuau,, "S JL (Lc^M-jL 69 Letter : rom Thomas Morris regarding Gapt Johnston's resignation and appointment of hi© successor Yates his First Lie .t - ther officers not a pointed Oapt Boughton appointed to th© Command of a separate Troop "Yon will oblige in® by giving him this information"/ 70* John Richardson Isquira k Mr* Jasper Parrish having submitted to us the subscribers am adjustment of the Dlsppte between the aaid parties, relative to the Lot to watch, the salfi Jasper is entitled to a certificate, according to the law providing for the purchase and Sale of the %yuga leaerration* which shall secure to his the right of Pre amption at t helverage price at which the Land of the said reservation,shall be ftmh sold; Wa the said subscribers having ^mMmA the premises* k heard the allegations of the said partita .do conceive it to be the peculiar province of the agents appointed by the act above alluded tof to settle and adjust disputed circumstances like this| and therefore have submitted for the information satisfaction of the said Agents* the following Statement of facts* ~ That the said John Richardson by virtue of a pre amptive right* to himself granted or adjudged by the said Agents* as a late or former occupant, on some part of the ^ayuga Reservation; as he has declared to us; and also* by having purchased of John Spaulding his prospect of obtaining Compensation; since his claim to a preemptive right has been rejected by the said Agents; hath laid or wishes to lay* his said right on Lot No* 131 on the Bast side of the Cayuga Lake* And the said Jasper Parish hath also la:fd* or wishes to lay* on the same Lot a preempt?* right* ranted or adjudged to him by the said Agents* by virtue of a purchase he itta.de of the improvement of SIisha Durkeef as' an occupant on and about said lot* - Updn the view and. evidence aforesaid* we find that between Lots N* 924 and 144 on the lake Shore* there are no Claims of Preemption allowed by the said Age fcs in their general Ce tificate exce ting the claim of Jasper Parish for the improv anient of the said Hi aha Durkee* That the divisional Lines between Lota Bo* 131 and 137 on the said &aat aide of the Cayuga Lake runs thro1 the 1st: rovement* of the said Illsha Durkee* dividing the said Improvement* nd leaving the greater part thereof* together with the remains of an old tog Hut on the *>outh Side of said Divisional ^ine* -That on the lorth Side of said Lot i^o* 131 - There are about three acres of unimproved Land enclosed by a fence made by the said John Spalding* whose claim has been rejected as aforesaid* - (Signed) Sett Phelps •Ben Ledyard Sclpio December 5th 1795 Thoa * J&wford Benj LeyInvoice from Jasper Parrish* to The Comsissloners of tha United States 1793 / 71 Br The Go&miaaia&ars of tha United states/for treating with the hostile Indians/ in a/c with Jasper Parrish* Cr 1793 May 14 to anpemoaa from Canadaiguay to Hiagara - - - 3 85 to cash did to Henry Obeal 1 to axpancea t Mr* Streata ------ 1 to horse hire 5 days S 50 27 to expenoea t : Phila ---------IB 45 to ditto in PhilJ ----— - S 95 June £5 to my axpenaaa returning fro| PhilJ to Niagara 12 37 to my extra service as from Niagara 50 .Phil from May to June 25' inclusive 29 daya to expaneas for horse keeping 1 63 to horse hira from Ganadeifiuay to Nawtoim - - 5 75 to hire for return 3JF hogfraa ------- 3 to my own horse 8 days ----- - ~ - ~ - 4 14 to cash p# Jacob iilry for horse hire pr recet 2 to ditto to John JLreiaaer - -- -- -- -- -- 1 2B 17 ttpd&tto Karaite t Oonnar horaahira -v- - - - - 6 13 18 to-ditto pr Gorge lasher ----------- 6 31 27 to Ad-m Vrooman till - ---------------9 18| 28 to Cash pd for shoeing a hors and Sxpanoaa at Kria 2 37| July 5 to lit to to 1* Butler pr receipt — -----1 24- to ditto to Al* Levering do --------Z 55 255to ditto to Wanaham Klngalay do ------ 5 £7 22 to ditto to JL Butler do-------£27 27 to ditto to Israel Chupin junar ---~ ~ ~ ~ ~ 3 75 to ditto for horse keeping it Conandalguay - 1 871 to M.tfea shoeing and Sntertain&anta ----- 2 57| to expenoaa at Niagara - - - - - 3 30 to expenses to Phil a^ ---- — - - IB 80 to ditto while in Phil * - - ----- - 2 47 to ditto on raturning from Phil0** - - - - - - 8 §0 to horne hire and keeping at Sheshaguan - - - Z 66 2/3 Amgt 5 to axpancaa at ort "Sri a - - - - - - B 54 11 l%o eanh pd Capt Cowan for passage from. Fort fria to Detroit - --------- - 15 50 to expenses from Niagara to C armada iguay - - 5 Sapt 18 to el;- mces at Fort "rie an& Niagara - - 21 66 S/3 to Fa than Hajr&on Bill - -- -- - - - - - 99 to his extra sarvlca as expsasa from Biagara to Phil*- md back to Detroit from July 10 to Augf 11 inclusive 32 days 64 By Cash at 5 times as p aoaipt to Coil Pickering 0b. back* Copy of expeiiees Sept 1793 PaidLetter and Inclosure from P. B* Porter June IS, 1814 to Jasper Parrish / 72 Can June 12 0 1814 Dear Sir, I have received your two letters of the 7th inst* & calculate on the rleasure of meeting you with your Bed Brethren at Auburn on thursday next. It is however possible that we may not be in until! friday morning, as Capt is extremely anxious to appear in uniform, which may not be completed in"" time for us to leave before Thursday morning* 1 enclose you an order for pr visions which I wish you to show to all the public agents on the road, as wall on account of the Volunteers aa ol the Indians* If no public provisions are to be had, you are ou/Cetsek to engage to any gentleman who will undertake to make the supplies, that he shall be paid the contract price, an sending his vouchers to this place or Buffaloe. In haste yours sincerely (Signed) P, b. Porter Head Quarters Buffaloe 7th June 1814 Circular All publlo store keepers, public age, ts or any other persons who may hold in their possession public provisions of any discription, will issue the same upon the requisition of Br Genl Peifcr Porter, or upon the order of any officer commanding troops of the Regular Army, who may be on their March untill further orders• (Signed) Jacob Brown, Maj. Genl (Copy) In conformity with the above order, the Public agents &n§ persons having the custody of public provisions will open the same to the Indian Warriors, & to the Volunteers under the order of his Excellency Gov. Tompkins of the 13. March 1814. upon the requisition of Jasper Parrish, j^sq. Indian Agent, and on the provision returns of the officers commanding companies of Volunteers. Canandaigua (Signed) .?* B. Porter, Br Genl June 11. 1814 Coma N* York VolsLetter & Xno fro© P. Porter to Jasper Farrish) On backi p* B* Porter Letter 12 June 1814 Mdfiiif Vernon• On* 17 June Igl,. 2d fopr. Jasper Parrish, Esq* Williams1 Inn, last of Onaidm Village Cornelius boxtcTder) Antonl* 2 B Doilwajs 4 Oaondauga 2 Cayuga • 1 Tuscarora 1 if" two ChinsLetter from Morgan lewis to Jasper Farriah April 87 1815 V 73 Buffalo 27th April 1813 Sir/ Presuming frosn your Latter to fcr* Orangey that you hairs by this tin* reached your own house| 1 wish you to inform me whether any pe mission has been given by ^overnmeiit for the er ployment of the Indian®« If there has* no time is to toe left in gluing an Invitation to such of the Warriors as have fire A ma to join m at Lewistown* Could yon be with them to keep then in order It would b© advisable • m pleased to let mm hear tT*m you immediately*** l a a® Sir your him Ssrv. (Signed") Morgan Lewis Jasper -arlsh* Esq* On Back: Buffalo H Y l?i 50 Ap 1813 Jasper Parish Esq C&n&ndaigua M# Lewis Esq letter April E7 1813 Morgan Lewis letter 50 Apil 1813jL -^M^f^ r ■ ^ Circular from J* Calhoun (Ciroular) Department of War, iith February, 1820, Sir, The practice of Indian Chiefs in visiting the seat of government» is a it ended . ith great inconvenlenee, as it is impossible to spare any time to devote to their affairs, from the more important und pressing business of the nation* In future the Chiefs of the Several Indian, tribe® must not oa permitted to visit the seat of government, unless this Department is first notified, thro1 their mgant, of their desire to do eo, and its sanction is obtained to the Measure* You will inform the chiefs of the nation to which you are a'.-ent, of this order on the subject, and that, if they visit the a eat of government without complying with it, they will have to bear their own expenses* 1 have the honor to be, Your most obed+; Serv {Signed) J* C, Calhoun Superintendents and Agents for Indian affaire, ' ' ' • | y (Copt) 75, Letter to r'Y:0mm L# Stoffimmey $my 1923 from impBT Parrish (This first; Ganandagua 26 Jany. 182? Sir, 1 b@f leove to refer you to /ry letter oi the 1st Inst* In obedie: ee to tfca order of tbe secretary of -ar» I ha ire eommis ionei my Son Edward Par ri all to repair to the St• ll /Is Villa • , from which 1 was presented by an attack of the Rheumatism which made it ixapsropar for me to undertake the journey - 1 rend to you encloses a copy of iny letter of netruottons to him Marked 1 o. 1 A copy of w letter to the Indianas ?f I^o* 2 A report of Edward ~"arrlsh w Ko* 3 A list of the ne.ir.eo of tte Chiefs ^Warriors) Claiming the protection of this Oove runent } Mo* 4 He returned from this Mission OB the E4th inat, aft ' a very fatiguing journey and has acquitted himself to my satlsf ntlon* 1 h«Te only to add that 1 bellTe there will be no more caure of complaint fro^ thlc quarts , and. I shall continue to wartx them against any improper conduct* I am wlr Very respectfuly Your mo* obdt* Sxrv (Signed) Jasper Parrish Sub Agent of the 0 £ to t a Six Nations of Indians Thcnas 1* KeKlaney, Ssq ) Indian office } Washington )/ 7U On back, far Dafarteent M$far farfish Ksqr* Latter of Instruction a frotr ' • Dearborn Seqr# Feby 15, 1605 War Defmrteeni 15th February 1803 Sir tftth this you will receive a eeenieeleA constituting you a Sub^Agent of the United States to the sin Mat1out, now under t e general eyperlnteotendanoe of Oallendar Irvine Require♦ Until more ample instructions on the subject of your agency, and fftrioua duties connected with it can be furnished, you will gwern yourself by such dlreotatono as yfcu may receive from Mr* Xrvine§ In all matter®, in relation to which yon are not particularly instructed by this department* It will be your duty to spend at least three month a in each year* iuftlng the warm season, within the tribes of the Oneida^, Oayugas, Stockferidge, Onondagoe, and those Indiana who Infcmtttt the b&Y^a of the Ooneaee river, Of Jkour prooeedinga while among the Indiana, you will keep a correet journal, noting and remarking aueh circumstances m in your judgment are important to the United States, a copy of which you will forward to\Ur« Irvine, al least once a year* fou will endeavour to obtain and confirm the the food will and affection of the Indlantf tg> introduce the sits of civilisation, domes-tic smmfactures, and agrlculture* To diauade from and dlecountenan.ee the use of ardent spirits among them, and in all matters and things contact yourself in auoh lannsr as shall be beajfe calculated to affect the benevolent designa and views of the Oemra. 1 Government toward© their Indian brethren* fou Will ba careful and vigilant^ in reporting every circumstance a d event which man occufc that Is Important to the government of the United S$a$*e to be mm&e acquainted with,* The place of $our residence will for the present be C&nftndaigua, I am, Sip, It obt Servant ( Signed) If* Daarborn Jasper Parrish Eaqr*7? latter from the War Bapt to Capt* Jasper Parrish De^ * 20* 1827 * Department of War Off! Incti Affairs 30th Deer 1827 To Capt • Jasper Parrish* t;% s# Sub-Agent* to* Sir, Complaints have been preferred, by the British Minister* to the department of State* and by that Department*oto the Department or War* against the conduct of the 3t* Regis Indians* ihioh, is represented to have been disorderly to m extent which demand a the interference of the Government♦ The outrages complained of* are said to have been committed in June last* The Secretary of War directs that .you ascertain the nature and gjctent of the* disturbance* and report the saiie to^llmT it may be proper* to enlighten the Indians* in regard to the line which divides the United Statesf from his Britanick Majesty1a possessions in Canada; and require it of all the Indians* vho may claim to be under the protection of the American Government* to enrol themselves* To sxxxxh you will say, in the name of the President of the United States* that if they remain on the American side of the line* 'which you will mark* by a stone, or any other permanent guide* and live peaceably and conform to our Counsels* they will be protected; but if they shall"cross the line* and comlt violence* they will be left to be punished * by the forces of Canada* In fern *hem distinctly» on the subject of their new relations* which the dividing line imposes; and assure them* that no protection will be afforded* by the American Governmentf if they fross it* and commit violence of any kind* either upon th6se Indians living on the British side* or the subjects of the King residing there* 1 am* vexy respectfully * yr obt Servt* (Signed) Tho* L* McKenneyInstructions for Sdward P. Parrish From Jasper Parrish 79* Canandaigua Jojjy 3, 18 28 Instruction for ) Xdward P. Parriah I You will proceed to St, Regis, to the Indian ▼Ullage - there you will call the Indian Chief® & Warriors together in Council; deliver to them my letter, and state to them that you naive a isessage from the President of the United States, through the far Department.- After the dommunlcation is explained to them, you will call on them to explain to you, the outrage' complained of, and said to have en coasmitted in June lastf. take it all down in writing. - you must take a list of all the name® of the Chiefs, Warriors and headmen, residing with the State of Kew York - See that they understand where the division line is, ~ You,must hold your Council within our boundary line - let the Indians living on the British side attend the Council, - the cocsmunlcatlon from the War Dept you will bring hack with you, - let no one take a Copy of it. - (Signed) Jasper Parrish Indian Agent910© latter from Edward Parrish to Jasper Parrish, fan? 25, 1820 Ho, 3 - Canandalgua 85 J my 1028 Wo Jasper Parrish !sqr ) Sub Agent of tie United States) to the Six nation* of Indiana J Sir, Agreeable to your Instructions 1 proceeded in adiate'y to the Indian VI3 a © of l>t. Regis (on the £t Lmrreme) 1 then called a Council of the American Indiana also vlted the British Indiana to attend,2wfaiah invitation they accepted* I then read the Coirjsainioatioc from Governs rt made inquiries, agreeable to your Instructions* I was not able to find that any depredations or violence of any kind had hmn committed by one party of the Indiana a j dust the other* The nature and extent of tfc ■ outrara commltad in June last t the /j:r3rxe<in 1 waa their hoisting the flag of the United States 1b Canada (amft this wb done»in the Indian Tillage, all of which Is In Canada. J Ko v Ml Shoe of any kind was used at, or since tfc .t tiro, by one party against the other* - I learnt upon .my arrival at St Regis, that two lines had been run by the Coxifilsaionera, neither of which fcao^yet been laid dorr as permanent - In this situation they are without any other boundary line than the old one* -This has been the oauoe (I fear) of most of the difficulties heretofore existing feetween them* Both parties are anxious thataa boundary line should be fixed through their reservations* at present thay differ as to the line that should be ailed the boundary* The American Indians informed tm that the British Indians re a Id in;; at St. Begis had toll thorn that they must move into the United States in the Spring & leave their Houses ten- improve: ants, most of which are in Canada* The populate ->n of the te/eric^n Indians at St* Ragle & wi thin Cam da, as near aa J could learn is 350 & that of the British Indians 500 - 1 have endeavoured to enrol the Indians, claiming the protection of this Government, and herewith retort their names - I was well received by the In clans on both sides, and ^r Indians rave re assurances that they tould obey the orflerB if the President of the United States* and would cultivate friendly feelings towards *aeh other* Sat I am respectfully {Signed) Mward Parrish -u SI Agcnoy of the V. B. to the six Hatlons. of Indians • Casaadalgua 1 J any 1828 Sir, I have reoeived your letter of'the 20th ult. informing e® of soRe disorderly conduct of the £>t Regis Indians, which has become ea subject of complaint from the ministry of his Brittanio Majesty residing at Washington. - . I shall giva prompt attention to this subject by repairing to that Tillage in person, if my health will permit, and if not, 1 will send an official Agent who shall make diligent enquiry into the cause of the complaints, md to faithfully warn them of the consequences of any disorderly conduct, and in duo ti®e 1 will make report to your department I am Sir, very respectfully Your mo. obdt. Srv (Signed) Jasper Parrish Sub Agent / I^A-^r-L^. letter from Jasper Parrish Jany 1, 1328. To Thorns L. McKinney Thomas L. McKinny, Esq Indian Office Washington —- X . Buabere of the ^t. nagis Indian® Jany 1828 82 No. 4 Tsier-hen Sa-ia-gos-gats ten - Ca- i en~ ta- ron-wea ------- Picking V.ood To-ho-ta-ra-aen- --------Twenty Qhinittaya Tsie-te-wen-ron- ------- ,,e will say again 8a-tl-*o-gwl~r«s - -------j;ven »Mps Ta-ia-got-ha-ra -------- Tfcey are' talking Ga-hon-v/a-sa - -------Now Canoe Tha-nen-rie-hon Te-gano-ta-oer. -------Twenty Hushes Sag-sis ----.... Pelo Tio-gws-no-ron ------- Valuable Company Te-hok-sea-slor -------He has opened it To-ga-hon-wen-oe-re ------- Canoas are falling Tsis-go-go -------Hob in Srot --------jev, Oar-fci-is -------Good.Y.oods ea-go-wii-no-rla-hoc Interfere** of Spa&oh Oa-son-nion ----Things are on Ta-ha-hen-te -------He is forward Te-ga-hon-wa-sen ------- Twanty Canoes fa-gon-nis -------Sbo® Maker A-ion-wa-es Te-va-taa-ha-ria-fe ---------. Broken Knife Tio-hoc-ao-te —------Double Houee/ SB 82 ? -2- St* Regis Indians Is] , ""......^ //a-go-ha-we-tha ----------He takes them along Te-gan-ia-ta-ro-gen --------- Between the Rivers Ga-ri-wa-ti-ron Tho-ron-ion-gc ----------Hit the cloud Sa-go-ie-nas —.—-—- Kitohum A-la-wak~hon ^ Ta-re-ha- ---------- Mitchel Cook Ta-ion~hen-se-re ----—-— Brake of day Then-non-so-got-tha —-—— goes thrug the House Ga-na-wu~i en-ton -------.— Swampy Tha~ron~ia-wa-gon ---------> Hole in the cloud G-na-aa-gen-ra --------- Whlta Swan Sga~we«lon~to-wane A-sigwa-Ii-ae ------Drawing a Spear Ga~ya~ra~wa~gon --------- Bag shook Te-ho-hon-wa-gweh ---------- he tookr-the canoe up A-ri-wa-kin-ha ---------- Disputer Ga-na-so-hon -----—-— Feathers in the water Te-ga-na-gon —.-------Scratched 9-na«»we-ra ---------Springe A~nents-hon-&ie -----— Arms flying Sosa -------Joseph Go-a-wi —----Floating along Ga-ra-to-hon- ------quits in the water Ga~ri~wi-io >—Good word A-gox ----EagleSt* legis Indians y aa Sga-ne~|-or-hose~aen A~wa't-ha - ron- grot s Mia**ta**ri© Good River Ta~ga~no~ta~tl-ron fe~io-ha~ta~gwen ------------ different Road A~aa&~Ba~*8a -———— striker ?eH*ae"gi~w&~8en ------Along the clouds -ro»~lak-ta-tia ~Euahaa Ere ^ailing ji-hon^-i^se-te --—-----—- He has done song again A-no-tie-nis ----——« Village han&a about hi® Ro-ren 3a-hon~hl~ge ——„ig Clearing Ba-tan~ien ———---- Between the months Sho~yon~wa~se ——- Knives acrest each other 5ga~hen~to-wa~ne — «—Long; Tail Te-wen-ni-to-geSi ------~ Along fe-vas~ha~ra~se~re ------Fatah it Sin~ta-sa~tic Tsio~fae~:ri«*sen Tha»ha-wi-tha or Thos Ta-taa-te i little ♦Thomaa Thos te la na ta* gwante "ft Thomae-Tarbla K5 Lewey-ta io ron io ta t __i-I- St, Jtagis Indians 1/ 82 82 Loren Tarboll j # Joseph* Atfcias~ha elm ton : Joseph - Atkin - ta-tfe §• Joseph ^oh«rl«ho-wa~&6 laser - Sa-te« ge ron las t Warriors 0. aon b a - *'ea ■- r a Thona a - 0. ae- t a **; - o-wa Joseph Qa*he-ro~ton Tele Tsia-te~^en~ A-Tsl-Tsia$ Sa-loa-re-al ft~ror~la-ta«goa O~sl~to-wax 8a-go-ia-ae sox-1ha-ron- -ia-gl then ? Sa-te~gu«»rex>hes 1i-ga-aa-fv-ra-aa Te-toat- ^o n •m-toaes Sa-ga-wl-he Ta«ker*hl~toa-tle Sa-go^fee Sak-ha-he-se Cta-waa-alo- ta-ae At^re-wu-yi ii Josph Phillips -Joseph Tarbie Eleaser Tarbie Lewis Gook Thomas Big Fine Joseph Berr little Battese Balleee-Tarbl* Lewis Kingfisher White Peter Even Treat Small Horns lleazar Phillips Giving it to thei Trees- along He is oanoering them Long Step-/ la^k £] 83 Copy of Letterirom David Corkick to the War Department Oeo. 9, 1823. 0 0 0 0 0 0 Tuscarora Village 9 Beat 1823 Report from the Tuscarora Nation of Indiana 1 ha ire complied with your wish I would inform you the condition of the Tusoarora Ratione Our Nation cont!fc6&€&. about tro hundred & fifty, .they all gat their living by faming* th era are many of our people who have ptfety rood fa oome of the families sell forty bushels of corn above their own use lllr#«vlm wheat and froia fifty to one hundred It^fifty & two hundred bushalla of corn & wheat # .And also' some of our farmers sella from five to tv-nv tons of Bay• Jlnce the late mar thexe been two frain houses built & likewise three, good toar&3« Te do not build fsamehouses generally on account of the scarcity of pine timber• The fanning utensils which are given to us from Government are faithfully used by our people* Wa have h&6 b school for a * urfher of years, hut on account of thn * 11 rjansaensent of the school It was *$iven up lor a time but m expect to have one soon• We have likewise had a minister for about twenty three year Be but. our Minister has been dismissed fro® us We soon expect to have one sent to us Our Nation 1 think entered the covenant vith the lev; York Missionary Society in 1600 & in 1880 transferal to the V.* 1" ♦ * •society hh.ve a ebureh eons is ting of about twenty members lie feel very tbankfull to the Government of U, States for theii patronage and t.\e many favours which m bo frequently receive from the GoverniLent - *»e really hope that the Government will not be discouraged with our b cfcwar&nesB in complying with their admonitions and good will to us -but we hope that they will bear vitfe our infirmities & still continue to encourage us - fc'e hope in ti&e that \ e will share with feetfe our white broth^nn in all their blessings both civil and religious which they enjoy We have done v-hat you wished by sending! this Your friends (Signed) ^avld Corkick ii Tusoarora whief. OK Back: Coppy of umld Corkick -Letter Deer 9, 1683 b&nt to the v,ar DepartmentS-^ - H " ^ 84 Latter to Capt. Jasper Parrish from Elbert Ullett Feb, 27, 180 C. f ? Junius February £7th. 1606 Sir Inclosed I t»:?nd you t.v, order on kr. Holden for tv.o barrel*. of iialt; which - presume you will receive on presenting it ~ I m vith Respect your most Obedient (s4) Albert miatt Junv Capt" Jasper Parish On Backi Capt Jasper rarish Candagua Willett
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Creator: Stanton, Elizabeth Cady, 1815-1902
Date: 1897-05
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Creator: Wyman, Anne (Southworth)
Transcriber(s): James, Evan
Descriptor(s): Ditkoff, Andrea
Date: 1878-1880
Text: 1878-1880 Wyman2 We had my trunk checked over to the boat and were told to look after it about half an hour before reaching Poughkeepsie. We breakfasted on board the boat and went to the Albany [Day] boat which we were to take to Poughkeepsie. Father saw two ladies from [Canton] and introduced me Miss Everett and Mrs. Ellis. He was intending to leave me on board the boat, but we felt so badly that he concluded to go as far as [Nyack] and take the cars home or, rather, to New York. Oh, I was...
Show more1878-1880 Wyman2 We had my trunk checked over to the boat and were told to look after it about half an hour before reaching Poughkeepsie. We breakfasted on board the boat and went to the Albany [Day] boat which we were to take to Poughkeepsie. Father saw two ladies from [Canton] and introduced me Miss Everett and Mrs. Ellis. He was intending to leave me on board the boat, but we felt so badly that he concluded to go as far as [Nyack] and take the cars home or, rather, to New York. Oh, I was homesick when left me! And I was tired, too which makes it worse. But the scenery up the Hudson was just grand. I enjoyed the first part of it exceedingly; but at last I was too tired to enjoy it very much. I must tell about the Hudson. For a long way after leaving New York the Palisades extend along the west bank, and on the east the country is hilly and has very many beautiful residences. Both banks are prettily wooded all the way, the trees being cedars, shaped like sugar loafs. The Palisades are very high, rocky bluffs,3 rising perpendicularly from the very waters edge, or from a sloping sand-bank, or narrow strip of low, level land, on which often houses are built. The sides of the Palisades have a little verdure, and are much groved as if by the sand washing down the sides. Near the end of the Palisades, and almost on the verge, it seems from the river, is the Palisade Mountain House. What a view must be seen from it. How I admired the residences on the opposite sides. Many of them crowned hill-tops and the beautifully sloping sides, and the trees surrounding rendered them charming. I saw two that were built after the fashion of ancient castles, and to see them, on could imagine herself looking back into antiquity. Further on the highlands were broken into high hills - mountains the guide-book called them. I especially noticed two that stood on opposite sides of the river. Old Crow's Nest & Sugar Loaf. I think the latter deserved its name; for it was very [sym-]4 metrical, but its sides were not so sleek as the sides of a sugar loaf. We passed by Constitution Island, the home of Miss Warner, author of "Wide Wide World." We also passed Stony & West Points. At the former are strong bluffs, not so high as the Palisades, but having no verdure on their sides. No wonder they called the place "Stony" Point. At the foot of the bluffs were low stone houses that looked as if they might have belonged to the fort. There was a light house on this point and one at West Point also. At the latter place we saw the library of the Academy, distinguishable by the dome. Just above the West Point was the place where, in 1776, they stretched across a chain to keep the British from going up the Hudson. We saw, too, the house which Gen. Washington made his head quarters. It was stone, with a low, sloping roof. Near by it stands a flag staff. It is situated just south of Newburgh. The river, after we left the Palisades, grew narrower, and had more bends. Indeed, in some places it seemed as if we were shut in5 on all sides and there was no way to pass out. Then how pretty it looked to discover the channel and see it gradually widen. At one place the angle the river burned was so sharp that it seemed to "bend up double." Oh, the whole was beautiful, grand! Friday, Sept. 20th 1878. At Po'keepsie. When I went to look after my trunk the baggage-master told me to always look after my baggage the first thing. I will remember that again. When I arrived at Poughkeepsie, there I stood on the wharf, with my trunk, and up rushed half a dozen baggage-express men and hack men with "Vassar College," "Express your baggage across the city, Ma'am," and other such remarks. I didn't know where to leave my trunk, nor where to take the horse-cars. And I was so tired I couldn't think, especially when so many hack-men, etc. were6 all talking to me together. I am going to be a true Bostonian now and say, why don't they give the hack men a place to stand and make them stand there? Well, I thought I would take a hack and go with my trunk to the college, so my trunk could stay there if I could not. A lady rode down in the hack, too, and back. I was exceedingly tired. When I arrived here I inquired for Prof. [Backus]. But he was not in. Then I learned that I couldn't be accommodated at the College but that on the following day I could. So I went back in the hack to the "Morgan House." When I reached my room there, how I cried! I had been long for a chance to cry. I was, indeed, homesick. But, as, of course, crying would not help the matter, I soon stopped, and bathed my burning face in cool water. Then I went down and wrote home 3 sheets and the same number to [Harry]. This cooled me off and7 raised my spirits. I went down to tea feeling much better. After tea, I put the finishing touches to my letters and was soon to go to mail them, when there came a tap at the door. Opening it, a servant handed me a card, with the words, "Gentleman in the Parlor." "Who?" thinks I, and read Prof. Backus' name. Oh, I was glad to see him. He introduced me to two young ladies that were stopping there and were to be [examined]. A Miss Reynolds and a Miss Some-body-else. I have become quite well acquainted with the former and like her. I sat a while in the parlor, then posted my letters and went to bed. It was some time before I went to sleep, but I then slept soundly. In the morning I woke feeling better. After breakfasting, still better. I gathered up what I had in my room, and went to wait for a horse-car. There I met a young lady, also evidently waiting for a car. I spoke, and we introduced ourselves. Miss Morrill was her8 name. We rode down in the horse-car together, and I liked her very much. I haven't seen much of her, however, since. It is nearly time for supper, so I will now close my writing. Saturday, Sept. 21st, 1878. At the College. When I reached the College, I inquired for Prof. Backus, but before I could see him, Miss Morse, the Pres. Ass't came up to me. She said that my name had been mentioned to her by Miss Wilson, who lived right across the street from her. That was Belle Wilson, whose father used to be the Orthodox Minister in Stoughton, and who taught Harry French one summer. I was glad to know that Miss Morse was acquainted with her. Then Miss Morse took me into the third parlor, and the card which told my standing was marked with my full name and my age. [No] examinations for me took place until 2.30 P.M. This was because I was examined in June in Boston, and passed in all but 2 semesters of Latin, Quadratic Equations, An-9 -cient History and Physical Geography. The latter two I have never studied. So I was shown the Reading Room, and there I sat until 2.30, P.M., when I went to Prof. Braisley's (a lady) room and was there examined. There was a question on Geometrical Progression among mine and I had never studied Progression. So I hold her; but she said I might enter the Freshman class, as we were to review that. After Algebra I was taken to the Pres. office, sent to the Treaurer's office. Paid my $300, and went to Miss Morse to have my room assigned. It is on the first floor, or ground gloor. Quite pleasant. I have the outside sleeping-room. After tea, I met Miss [Shailer], a New York girl, who was examined in Boston at the same time I was. Later. Miss Reynolds came in for me to go down to the Lake, so I stopped writing. I will begin where I left off. I went up to Miss Shailer's room, and when I came down found a young lady here, who gave her name as Miss Jessie F. Wheeler, and who was occupying10 one of the inside rooms. So I did not have to stay alone. Miss Wheeler, however went home last night, but is to come again Monday. Yesterday I went up town with Miss Reynolds. The principal errand was to get a bag to put our washing in. That evening I promised to go up to Miss Reynolds room; but - Later. Miss Shailer came in and stayed till tea time and after tea and chapel I went into Miss Reynold's room and into her corridor teacher's room a while. I tried to call on Miss Gross, who is one of those who were examined in Boston, but she was out. It is raining this evening. Until now we've had beautiful weather. But I will go on - Miss Shailer asked me to come and bring [Hattie] (Miss Reynolds) there. I found Hattie feeling dreadfully homesick and bad. Her roommate - Miss [Gawne] - had come and acted very hateful and disagreeable. But we went to Miss Shailer's and spent a very pleasant evening. Miss Nickerson and Miss Buckrand are in her study parlor. Hattie's room is only one sleeping-room to a 11 study parlor. Today Hattie and I went out rowing on the Lake. This week they didn't charge for the boats. Next week they do. This morning Miss Morrill and I went out around the lake and had a very pleasant walk. Last night when I came home from Miss Shailer's, I found here Miss Tappan, who occupies the single inner room. She has a drop light and table-cloth, which are two things we needed for our rooms. I have written tons of letters home and 3 to Harry, and have had one from Mother. Prof. Backus opened College last night and gave us all a welcome. How rambling this last is written! Monday, Sept 23rd 1878 My First Sunday. Yesterday was my first Sunday here. After breakfast Miss Morrill and I started for a walk, and meeting [Cora] Shailer and her Parlor-mates, going to the Glen, we joined them. Had a very pleasant walk and they all came to my room, after they returned, for12 a few minutes. At 11 there were services in the Chapel. Rev. Caldwell, our Pres., delivered the sermon. He has just been appointed Pres., the former one having recently died, and he is a Baptist Minister, formerly at the head of a Theological School. His sermon was about the yoke of Christianity, and I liked it very much. He seemed to be very liberal. After dinner I called on Miss Gross, and then went to Hattie's room. After supper I went there again and Miss Owen from Iowa came in too. Just after supper we had Chapel service, as usual. Prof. Backus has conducted it, but last night the Lady Principal did. And she was nice. After Chapel there was a Prayer meeting, which we did not attend. Later in the the evening there was an organ concert, which we attended, but were all very sleepy. After that I came home and retired, feeling rather tired-out after my first Sunday. I wrote one letter and finished another yesterday. It was quite cool, but very pleasant, which is contrary to the usual order of things for the first Sunday.13 Assigning Lessons Later. We all went to the Chapel this morning to have our lessons assigned. I was read off for 4. Freshman Latin and Mathematics, Ancient History and Physical Geography. As they would conflict anyway, Ancient History was taken off. 3 studies are all they usually allow, anyway. I don't take Greek till next semester. I didn't get my studies arranged till after my Mathematics period had passed. But I went to Physical Geography and Latin. Lessons for tomorrow were assigned in each. I have bought a Allyn & Greenough's grammar, and have to get a Composition and Livy Anthon's, Miss Goodwin, the Latin teacher, said. Alas! there's not a [Livy] with a vocabulary to be had. I can never use my great Lexicon. I shall have to purchase a small one. Miss Morrill and I took a walk this morning and Miss Wheeler came this noon and we took a walk this afternoon. Now I suppose, rules begin. Tonight we had a corridor meeting and14 Miss Miller (our corridor teacher) was along to ask if we belonged to any church and what church we attended. [Her] lesson tomorrow in Latin is Life of [Livy]. Miss Morrill and I were up in the Library this evening to read about him but we couldn't find much. Wednesday, Sept. 25th '78. Getting to Work. We are getting to Work now. Have had two lessons in Physcial Geography. Not very long ones and not very well prepared. But starting ones. It is to be very nice. Miss [Haekell], our teacher, tells us many very interesting things, which I take down, and copy into my "Encyclopedia." Our Latin is also very interesting. It is a little hard to get started with a new teacher and new author, but not very hard. I like Miss Goodwin, too. Prof. Braverley, our mathematics teacher, is nice. She is splendid in mathematics. We are studying Progression now. We take [Livy], in Latin. Miss Goodwin has told15 us and made us find out a great many things about [Livy]. But not only are we getting started in our studies, but we are getting the rules and regulations into our brains. And I will here say that they're not at all burdensome. Yes, I like here very much. I had a letter from mother yesterday. She thinks of sending on to me a large easy chair, if I wish. And father wants me to tell if I am homesick and not keep it to myself as Harry did. But I am not at all homesick. Yesterday was rainy at intervals and cloudy all day I only took 3/4 hour exercise. Wrote to mother in the evening. Today commenced cloudy, but cleared off beautiful, but rather warm. Miss Wheeler and I went to walk around the lake. Saw [Cora] and Miss Buckland out in a boat. They invited us to go out too. So we had a row, and a pleasant time. Well, I ought to be studying. It is study hour.16 Thursday, Sept. 26th 1878. Rainy-day Exercise, News of Class-mates, and Good Advice from a Brother and Old Student. Today, the sun rose in a cloud. But it shone out brightly after a while, and when Hattie and I came from Physical Geography we took a half-hours walk. This afternoon it begain to rain and drizzled all day long. But, as we are required to take [Thorer's] exercises, rain or shine, out of doors, each day, I thought I'd brave it. So I put on my sack, took my umbrella and started with Miss Wheeler, who, however, soon came in, as she had a sore throat. I met Misses Shailer, [Nickerson] and Buckland, so walked around the Lake with them. Was gone about an hour. Thought today's exercise in the rain ought to make up for one rainy afternoon when I left 15 minute's of my time "un-walked." At dinner, it was announced that Dr. Webster requested the young ladies not to go out any more, which excused them from their walk. Oh, Miss Goodwin is splendid17 in Latin! She makes everything so clear and interesting. This evening I went up into Hattie's room. We only have 1 hour's study hour after our 3 o'clock dinner. Today I had a latter from Miss Clifton and Harry. Miss Clifton says [Clapp] is at the [Normal]. So that's 4 of our class of 7 there - Clapp, Helen, Alice and Isabelle. And Powers wants to go, too. I wish he could. He is so smart and persevearing! Farrell, I suppose is at Tufts. And here am I. Four weeks ago tomorrow night we were all together with Mr. [Pulsifer] and Miss Clifton. In a little less than year, we will be together once more, at our next class meeting. Oh may we all be there! And Harry, the dear boy! It is his first letter since I left. When mother was on this summer, he had her get me a silver napkin-ring in Chicago. It was a beautiful one, all frost-work covered with stars and with a wreath surroundeding my name. Aunt Sarah's choice, and18 she said she hoped the stars would be "emblematic of my Vassar Course." I told Harry, and he writes - "I hope the stars will be emblematic of your course through life and remember, your course after school-days is of, at least, as much importance as that in school. "So be careful and don't injure yourself trying to be the best scholar in your class; better be moderate in your ambition and you will do better in a long run. "I suppose mother has told you about examinations. If not I would say, don't cram too much and never worry at all. "Try and cultivate just enough 'don't care' to make your mind easy and go in to do the best you can: if you are beaten, say 'never mind, we will see about it next time!'" Friday, Sept. 27th 1878 The Close of First Week of Work. A beautiful day today after the storm of yesterday. I sent Harry's letter home to be read and today have written to [Gertie].19 I have gotten rather mixed up and I hardly know who I've written to and who I have not. I must write a lot tomorrow and more tonight if I have time. [Gorgie] Morrill was in here this evening. I think she's so nice. Study hour isn't in force Friday nights, and "Light's out" bell doesn't strike till 10 P.M. Last night when I was in Hattie's room, somebody came to get subscribers for the College Paper, edited by the students. Of course I ought to patronize our Vassar Paper so I subscribed. $1.50 per year. It was quite cool out today. I took 20 min walk with Miss Wheeler this morning and Hattie and I walked 40 min. just before lunch. Today we had to get our trunks ready so they could be taken away by tomorrow morning. If there were two in my room, I don't know what I should with all my things. My first week of work is out this night. Yes, I like here. I think I have well chosen. The teachers are real nice. They all give splendid explanations of every point.20 There [sic] work is thorough and critical. I enjoy my studies. They give us for the first, short lessons, that we may become accustomed to their ways and they to ours. Oh, how thankful should we all be, that it has been our lot to come into this school and, be brought under teachers who will take such pains with us and bring us to a true idea of knowledge and its use. Yes, my first week at Vassar has been a happy one. Long, long will I remember it, as the beginning of 4 times 40 weeks, I hope, as happy as this and as useful in forming the tastes and foundation of my life. Two young ladies were just in to look at the room. They had it last year and wanted to see it again. They said it really made them home-sick to look in. I remarked to Miss Wheeler, that next year we should be doing the same. But I like the first floor. And mother was glad I was here, and for all I know I may be here again next year.21 Saturday, Sept. 28th 1878. Changes. Well, quite a lot of changes have taken place today. Early this morning Miss [Tappan] informed us that she was going to move. So she did, taking her drop light, table-cloth and little rocking-chair. Well I wrote a long list of wants to mother this forenoon, fixings for both rooms. Misses Morrill, Buckland, Wheeler and myself took an hour's walk and picked some real pretty grasses and asparagus, which I fixed over my glass, making it look very pretty. At noon I received a letter from home saying that they would send on to me our big stuffed rocking-chair. And for me to send word what else I wanted with it. I was very much elated. Presently, Jessie's mother came, bringing two chairs for her, a little, comfortable rocking chair and a camp chair. Jessie said she would get a cover for the table if I would get the drop light. I shall get it as soon as possible for22 I can't stand this flickering light. Jessie went up town with her mother and came back this evening bringing some brown diagonal flannel for this table. Her mother commenced to emroider the edge. Jessie is going to finish it. Mother sent me a picture of myself. I exchanged with Miss [Cliven]. She is rather a queer girl, but I like her pretty well. She is from Missouri. Has a brother in the West Point Academy. He had the name of being the handsomest boy in the company, so somebody told her. She stopped to see him on the way, and the cadets have sent her 6 brass buttons. Hattie has been in this evening, and [Cora] and Miss Buckland. Also Miss Miller, our corridor teacher. When I get my things, our rooms will look real pretty. Jessie's chairs and table cover already gibe it another aspect. Their seats at table tonight were assigned tonight. Jessie and I are on the 4th table down the centre. The seniors have the 1st three. Tomorrow, also, we have a Bible Class.23 Sunday, Sept 29th 1878 Daisy. This is my second Sunday. We met in Bible classes just after Silent Time this morning and had our lessons assigned for next Sunday. Had church at 11. I have a bad cold and am not feeling very well, and Dr. Caldwell couldn't hold my attention, perhaps somewhat on that account Mrs. Wheeler has been here most all day. I wrote to Mr. [Baules] and Harry (and began a letter home today[)]. Miss BUckland is a great admirer of the daisy. As I don't like them very well, I have made fun a little over her enthusiasm on the subject. Today when I was out walking with Miss Morrill, I espied some, yellow with a brown centre. I picked them and begged a white one from Jessie's bouquet and pined [sic] to them a paper saying "Miss Buckland. With the compliments of Anne [G.] [Panthrouth]." They go to lunch during the first half24 hour, we during the second. So at their lunch time, I went up. The door was half-way open. I knocked, and, receiving no reply, went in and deposited my offering on the table. Tonight Jessie and I went up to call and go to chapel with them. Miss Buckland thanked me for them and said they were very pretty. I called her Daisy and Miss Nickerson and I concluded to give her the name. So Daisy she shall be to me hereafter. I like her ever so much. Monday, Sept. 30th 1878 A Bad Beginning. I went to Mrs. [Ray's] office this noon to get permission to go to town to purchase a drop light. After my lessons were over I went. I had quite a number of little errands that I didn't have time for. But I procured my drop light and fixings for $7.00 and brought it home in triumph and set it up, and lit it this evening. But I have to wash the chimney and shade before it25 will look very nice. But it is a great addition to the room, and the light doesn't hurt my eyes. Miss Gross and Miss Warren and their room-mate were in here tonight. Miss Nickerson may be in to see our table-cloth. The other night there was a committee appointed to draw up resolutions concerning the death of Pres. Raymond. Tonight a meeting was called to pass them. They are to be published in the next College paper. There was a corridor meeting tonight and we had to report about taking exercise, baths, and attending chapel. I had to report deficient on acc't of 15 min. exercise the first rainy day. Not a very good beginning. I shan't have to report it again however unless I am sick. Wednesday, Oct 2nd '78. The Japanese. Had a letter from Miss Kimball today, and wrote to Lucy. I have been longing to get acquanted with the Japanese girls, and have never26 before had a chance. But yesterday, [Cora], Daisy, and I were out for an hour's walk, when they came along. So we went along together and picked autumn leaves. We had a very pleasant walk, and when we came back, they came into my room just to look at it. Again today, Jessie and I walked with them around the Lake, and Jessie and Miss Nagai (the smaller one, the princess, so I hear) got interested in stamps. So Jessie and I went up this evening, Jessie taking her stamp [sic], I, my autograph album. Miss Yamakawa had an engagement and was out, but we three spent a very pleasant evening. Miss nagai has a very nice collection of autographs. Many authors, states-men, etc. And a lot of nice photographs, too. And she showed us some Japanese books. Miss Nagai takes only Music, as her eyes trouble her so she can't read and write much. Miss Yamakawa is almost full freshman. I like them both. It amused me to hear Miss Nagai say "and those are Japs" when she came to27 some Japanese in her album. She was 10 when she came here. I believe she has been here 7 yrs. She has one brother being educated in France. All her brothers and sisters are being educated somewhere, in Japan or a foreign country. Friday, Oct. 4th 1878. Another Friday - Apples. Another Friday night here! How quickly the week has passed. And last week went so slowly. I am getting on well in my studies. Like my teachers as much as ever. Miss Goodwin is splendid! She explains everything all out so nicely, defining every little point. She helps us to a tanslation so smooth and at the same time departing in nothing from the translation. And the clearness of Prof. Braislin's explanations! And the interesting things in Physical Geography. Oh, I enjoy things here. I had a letter from Mother today and she is going to send me a big chair28 and some other things. She wrote Thursday, and was going to pack the things that afternoon. I may get them tomorrow. Hattie Raynolds and I were out the other day and we managed to find our way into a yellow barn right near here where we could get weighed. I weighed 99 lbs., which is 4 more than I have weighhed all summer at home, or, indeed ever. 95 was my weight the day all my classmates were down to see me. We were all weighed in the Mill. Yesterday Miss Morrill and I went out to walk. Went into the orchard to find some apples to eat. The girls can all help themselves. But the apples are the littlest specks of things, and hard and dry. Once in a great while you can find a decent one. I wouldn't eat them at home, or, indeed anywhere else, and I don't exactly know why I do here. It isn't because I don't have fruit, for I have grapes at the table, all I want, every day. But we don't have many apples. But I'd much rather have grapes than apples. I suppose the charm29 lies in the fact that it's altogether novel to go out under the trees and have to make a thorough search to get good ones, and also to the fact that I haven't any apple-barrell to go to and find full of great nice apples. Yet I don't care for apples enough to purchase them. [Cora] and Daisy were out in a boat yesterday when we came from the orchard to walk around the lake, and took us out in the boat too. Tonight I have been up to [Cora's] room, and to the Library to read up on Volcanoes for Monday's Physical Geography, and I have been writing home. For a day or so I have been looking over a book entitled "The American Girl and her Four Years in a Boy's College." There are a great many nice things in it, and I am going to read it carefully. In the last part, however, the College part is almost swallowed up in the love story. Saturday, Oct. 5th 1878 Small Number of Pupils. There has been a great stir and hubbub30 here all the morning. Folks are moving. Hattie has moved into the next room to where she was. Miss Morrill has moved next room to us with Miss [M-] Fadden. Everybody has moved out of the 1st North Corridor, a great number coming onto our corridor. The College is very small this year. Some of the classes [above] have left on account of sickness. A great many from the South have not come this year. Then it is hard times. The Freshman class only numbers about 20, but I know lots that are part Freshman and are intendting to be Sophomores next year. I wrote to the home folks last night and today to Mr. [Pulsifer]. Miss Kimball and Harry. [Cora], Daisy, Abbie, and Gorgie went off of the grounds after cat-o'-nine tails ("cat-tails" Daisy calls them), and they brought some for our parlor and some [clematis]. There is a queer somebody that has conducted the Chapel services for two nights. I don't know whether or not he's a teacher.31 I wonder if he will conduct tomorrow's services. Monday, Oct 7th 1878. Bible Class - Box from Home. Yesterday Morning just after Silent Time the Bible classes recited. Our lesson was Luke XIII.22,30. Miss Avery is our teacher. She believed that none would be cast out and that the same feeling that made the weeping and gnashing of teeth, casused them to feel themselves thrust out. She believed that if anyone truly desired to come they could. She didn't ask me any questions, and my faith is in no respect altered. After Bible class, Miss Nickerson and I went to walk. Miss Nickerson came in here and we had some little discussion on religious subjects - the Bible, Darwin, etc. Miss Nickerson belives Genesis nothing more less than a mythology. I believe ditto as to that. After that there was a service. A great many went to Poughkeepsie to church. They are at libarty to do so once in a certain32 time. I don't know how long. Prof. Backus preached. I liked the sermon very well. After lunch [Cora] and I went out for a walk. It sprinkled all the while I was gone. I felt sick to my stomach after I came in and laid on my bed and read Lord Lytton's "Coming Race" all the afternoon. Ate a light supper and felt better. Today had a letter from Belle. Just charactersitic of her, the dear girl. Today expected a stuffed chair and some other things from home. Abbie, [Cora], Daisy, Gorgie and I went out to walk. Hunted for chestnuts. I got one, the rest more. Found an apple tree with quite large, soft apples, but sour. Brought home my pockets full. On entering behold! and rejoice! my chair had come. There it was, large as life, and oh! a perfect luxury for Vassar. Two other bundles. They had all come together in a sort of crate and had created quite a sensation. The janitor had gotten them out for me. I unpacked my bundles. Just what I had sent for. Clothing, water-proof, comforter, pictures, etc. Hallelujah! How I flew round. Between33 dinner and chapel I invited Misses Nagai and Yamakawa to come in and partake of my apples. The Lady Principal conducted chapel exercises tonight. As Jessie and I sat at Algebra, differentiating, this evening, study hours, there was a fumbling and a knock at our door. "Come." But instead we heard Gorgie's door shut. She had poked a note beneath the door, as it is against rules to go to each other's rooms in study hours, asking me to come over about Livy after 8, the end of study hours. I poked my acceptance under her door, and at 8, went. Miss Peck was in, and Daisy a minute. Miss Peck and Jessie are comical and always joking each other. Miss Peck brought Jessie into Gorgie's room in her arms and was scolding her because she didn't eat more. After it Jessie went and hung a comic pen drawing representing her on her door. Well, its nearly bed time and I must close. Tuesday, Oct 8th 1878 A New Parlor-Mate.34 Today, as I sat here with Gorgie, there was a knock. "Come." And two young ladies entered. One, Miss Irving, was to have our inner single room. She has moved in. She seems quite nice. I guess she is [Prep.] entirely. Tonight Gorgie and I called on the Japs for about 15 min. I have begun to study Ancient History by myself. I want to get full Fresh. as soon as possible. Miss Miller, our former corridor-teacher has gone to the 4th floor. Miss Hubbard is now our corridor-teacher. Had a letter from mother today. Wednesday, Oct. 9th '78 Summoned to the Lady Principal. Today Hattie Reynolds came in before study hour was out. That's against rules; but rules don't seem to be very severe in that respect. While she was here one of the messenger girls came to say that the Lady Principal wished to see me between 12 and 12.30 at her office. I couldn't imagine what was35 up, but travelled up there as desired. It was on account of the quarter of an hour's exercise I didn't take one rainy day. I ought to have gone to Dr. Webster to get exercised. But she (or rather her ass't. She was not there) exercised me that time. My first summons to the Lady Principal. Today has been rather half-cloudy. It sprinkled a little while we girls ([Cora], Daisy, Abbie, Jessie, Gorgie, and I) were out for our exercise, picking up chestnuts under the tree. I found 10 and felt quite proud of my treasures. Well, I must go to bed. By the way, Jessie and I were up for about 5 min. in the Japs' room. Miss Nagai was not in. I got my album. They have both written in it. Thursday, Oct 10th 1878. Cider. Today Abbie got permission of the Lady Principal for [Viva], Cora, and herself, Gorgie, Jessie, and I to go to a cider-mill some ways from here. We started after our day's lessons were over. Abbie36 took a pail that she got from one of the College servants. Gorgie and Jessie took their water-pitchers, nicely cleansed. But there were so crackled that they looked dirty. I took my silver mug to drink out of. Gorgie took a bag to put apples in if we found any stray ones. We didn't fill it, though some of the girls got 2 or 3. We found the cider-mill with little difficulty, and having reached it, stood like fools gazing upon the men there, and never uttered a word for several minutes. At last, however, we plucked up courage, or rather came to our senses, and asked about the cider. We bought a gallon for 15 cents. The cider-mill was back of a house, and we stopped by the road front of the house and drank cider all around. Then the procession moved. Everybody on the road to and from seemed very much pleased at something, and all knew who we were, of course, and where we'd been. We were rather tired37 before we reached home; but Gorgie, Jessie, and Cora stopped under the chestnut tree, and also to buy candy and peanuts of the man that stands in the road between the College and Lake with a bucket of such things to sell. We had a good time out of it and got back just a few minutes before dinner. The cider was new and sweet, but tasted a little of the barrell. Altogether it was very good. I was summoned to Miss Morse today. She wanted to talk to me about my lessons. She game me permission to study my Ancient History by myself. I had been doing so and it was against the rules, but I didn't know it. I have to have a composition the last Saturday of this month about what I have done in essay writing. It is to be in the form of a letter. I am glad that we are to begin essay writing.38 Saturday Oct. 12th 78. Chestnuts. This morning we girls, all but Gorgie who had to go up town this afternoon and couldn't spend too much time, went "chestnutting." The other day we found lots of chestnuts, and we thought that by going early in the morning we might get quite a lot. We went to the chestnut-tree, but there were but few on the ground, there having been but little frost and no wind. But we found a few and knocked off a few. Then Prof. Backus' son and some more boys cane and began to climb and shake the trees. Cora and Jessie picked up 3 I believe (we were just going and it was as they passed along) and Prof. Backus' son says, "Won't you please leave those chestnuts alone." From there we went to the Glen and found a few. But altogether our chestnutting was a failure. Today I have been to room J. (Student's Parlor) to see them dance. They dance39 every night between dinner and Chapel. All the evening I have been up in Cora's room reading "Phillis" with her. Sunday, Oct. 13th 1878. An Unprofitable Sunday. Cora and I have read "Phillis" nearly all day. It has turned into a hot love-story and I wish I had never begun it. But now I shall finish it. This evening I finished letters to Harry and Mother and wrote to Helen and [Al.] and to [Deb.] Nothing special has happened today. Cora and I walked up to Sunset Hill. A person from N.Y. City, an editor, preached today. Part of his sermon I liked. Part I didn't. Didn't learn anything in the Bible class. Indeed, have read all day and that's all it amounted to. So now I'll go to bed and see if I can't spend my next Sunday more profitably. Wednesday, Oct. 16th '78 Bowling Alley and Caramels. Today when we went to talk we went40 into the Bowling Alley for a part of our exercise. I was in there, just to look around a minute, the other day and that was the first time I was ever in one. I think it is nice fun. I knocked down 8 pins. The Alley is not in the main College building, but in the same one that the Gymnasium and Museum, etc. is in. Miss Irving was telling us the other day that the girls got chocolate and vanilla caramels, splendid ones, of the college store, by going round between the College and Laundry and hailing a servant and asking her to get them. I wanted some (I have not spent but 10 cents for edibles of any kind since I came), so yesterday when Gorgie and I went to walk we hung round there in vain. No servant was visible. So we gave it up. Today Miss Irving and I tried with no better success. But she promised to go again when she went to walk and that time was successful.41 They were splendid. I don't know whether or not its against the rules to get them so. I didn't know the College store kept anything of that sort before. It says in the Students Manual, our code of laws, that if we wish to purchase of the College store, we must enclose in a written order money to purchase and give it to the Corridor teacher at breakfast, who, if she approves the purchase, will forward the order. "Direct traffic is forbidden except to Seniors." But surely that's not direct traffic. Thursday, Oct. 17th 1878. Chestnutting Again. Today there has been a high wind all day long. We girls went to the chestnut tree for our walk. Miss Peck was there, down the bank almost into the mud, grubbing away for chestnuts. She got a hundred or more. When we came, she went in and left the place for us. I got 45, and I guess the other girls got as many, if42 not more. It must have been fun to have seen us girls grubbing away among the briars and bushes, our sticks in our hands to poke up the dead leaves, our hats off and hair flying. "If we had to do this we'd think it awful," said Abbie. Just [as] Jessie wished she had gone. She scarcely ever goes with us, because her foot hurts her and she takes only half an hour's exercise. Saturday, Oct. 19th 1878. Almost homesick - Waxing Leaves. Yesterday it rained all day long. Also all night; and today has been a dull dreary sort of a day. We girls went chestnutting. I got about 100, Gorgie 130, Cora 80. Abbie and Daisy got disgusted and left us. Most of them we got in the ploughed ground. When we got to our old stand-by of a tree, they had nearly all been picked up. Today has come the nearest to my being homesick. I have felt out of sorts all the afternoon and might me [sic] homesick if I wanted to, as easily as not. Today when we girls43 were out we picked some lovely autumn leaves - pink and blue. I never saw any like them before. I wanted to wax them on the branch. So I succeeded in getting some wax from Miss Irving, and Miss McFadden borrowed a gas-iron for me. I waxed my leaves, but fear that most of them will turn brown. The pretty pink and blue ones are rather too pulpy to wax well. Thursday, Oct. 24th 1878 Peppered Rolls and Table Fun This morning we had graham rolls for breakfast. Miss Miller, who presides at our table came in late, as she often does. So Misses [Wygant] and [Hulbeet] in a moment of fun, carefully placed two rolls beneath the castor, the standard of which is hollow, intending to have them for lunch instead of common bread. Lunch time came, behold the young ladies on hand for their rolls. But woe unto them! Someone had discovered their hidden store and carefully peppered their two treasures. Oh,44 it was a good joke. There was much meditation as to who the perpetrator of the deed could be; but we did not discover her. Lunch today, indeed was a trying time for Miss Hygant. Besides being disappointed in regard to her roll, they allowed us no forks to eat our sliced [beet], and she was compelled to use her spoon. We often have quite jolly times at table, especially when Miss Miller is late and at lunch, when there is no teacher at any of the tables. And Miss [Loder], who sits next me is always doing things that make me laugh, especially if I glance up across the table at Miss Wygant. Soemtimes Miss Loder gets 3 or 4 glasses of water by her plate, or tries to pass them to me when everybody at our end of the table is supplied. Then one day she calmly set two dishes of succotash by her plate and didn't notice it till Lily Peck spoke of it. One day she passed me the bread. Now there is a plate of bread at our end of the table,45 and she didn't think of that till just as I reached out my hand to take a slice of what she was passing, when it suddenly occurred to her and she snatched the plate away as quickly, saying, "Oh, you have some there;" and turned to talk with Miss Darling. I caught Grace Hygant's eye and we had all we could do to keep on a straight face. Lily Peck sometimes creates a sensation, too. She is very funny. One noon she made a face of an oyster cracker at table. And Grace Hygant and Hattie Hubbert are always disagreeing as to who shall wait, when there's not enough of anything in the first dish. They are the last ones helped. And oh, what funny times it makes. We sit at the 4th table down the center. The seniors occupy the first three. Gorgie sits at the next table, which has a funny servant. Some days when there's only 1 or 2 left at table she will begin to clear it away. One day the girls sat a long time just to plague her, and sent46 her out after the gingersnaps again, when she carried them away. She brought more and says "It's all there is." But most of the girls are very obliging. But I must close now. Tuesday, Oct. 29th 1878. Sad Separations. Lots of the seats were changed at table tonight. Jessie, Ella Irving and I go to Miss Parmer's table, where Cora and those girls are. That would be nice, but I don't like very well those opposite me at table. We had a lingering parting at our table at lunch, and I bade Hattie Hubbert and Grace Hygant a sad farewell. But the unkindest separation of all was that from dear Loder. How fondly I remember her remarks so volatile, Mr. Copperfield! last Sunday. "Miss [Southworth], please pass the staff of life," and "Grace, this is fearfully and wonderfully made," are the only specimens of her bright and shining wit. Alas! that no more I shall hear it. It was announced at dinner that a gold47 watch had been lost on the grounds. Wednesday, Oct 30th '78 Drawing Lessons. Have drawning lessons now every Wednesday. It rained last Wednesday and today; but cleared off today before the lesson. We have to go to the Lyceum, which is in the same building that the Gym is in. We draw from objects. A cube is what we are now drawing. Have had it in the two different positions. I did a great deal better on the second that [sic] the first and feel quite elated. Our drawing master is a German and talks quite queerly. But I like him. He says very funny things. Last week he was trying to make us understand something and he said. "Is there anyone that don't understand that? If there is I will make them understand it. In a gentle way of course." His name is [San] Ingen. I had a letter from Helen and Alice toady, a nice long letter.48 Thursday, Oct. 31st 1878 Hallow E'en. Tonight as we came out of chapel there was a little extra stir and bustle. And I heard someone say Hallow e'en. There I knew what it was. They say that there is more cutting up Hallow e'en than any other night in the year; everybody is up to something and every teacher is on the watch. Tonight the seniors have a time. Gorgie came to me with the singular request to borrow my red flannel petticoat. For the Seniors. Just after Friday Nov. 1st 1878 I will begin right when I left off about Hallow e'en. Just after Study Hours, Ella and I sat alone here and we heard a great tramping in the corridor. We rushed out. Behold a motley array of beings, rushing down the stairs and out of the door. All had on as much red as possible, and I recognized one clad in my red skirt and Gorgie's red49 sack. It was Ella Moore, one of the smartest Seniors. Well, after they had all gone, we went back to our room and were dying for something exciting to do, and wondering what the Seniors were up to. Jessie came in. We burst two paper bags in the corridor and exhausted all our hopes of excitement. Miss Levick came in. She and some others were going to stay down in room 13 all night and have fun. It is against rules to stay all night in any room but your own; but some girls do stay our quite often. There was an air of mistery [sic] and fun all over the College. Miss Levick brought us two bags, but they would not blow up good. Jessie pasted up two beautiful ones with [mucilage]. Just after the bell for Silent Time struck the Seniors came trooping in and paraded all around the first, second, and third corridors south. We waited till the fun seemed to be over and came in. Sometime after the lights in corridor were out we burst one bag. Then an-50 -other. It could be heard all over the corridor, like a shot. Miss Hubbard, our corridor teacher kept her light burning all night. Levick said if it hadn't been for that, she would have come down and pelted Ella with chestnuts over her window. I suspect there were many tricks played and things done that no one but those concerned knew about. I went to walk with Miss Nagai today. She said that some of them make molasses candy over a gas stove. They had permission. Had letter from Mother, Harry, and Miss Clifton today. Sunday Oct. 3rd 1878. Greek. I have got lots to say, and first of all I will tell about my Greek. The first time I was summoned to Miss Morse, she said something about my not being up to the Fresh. class in Greek. I knew that I had passed my Greek, and that I had Pres. Raymond's certificate for it, so I sent home51 for it. When it came, I took it to Miss Morse. She said that she would look up the mistake. In a few days more she summoned me and told me thtat I had passed my Greek, and so dismissed me from Phys. Geog and let me go into Herodotus. It is what is called Senior Greek. Prof. Hinkle teaches it. He is a German. At first I couldn't understand half he said, but can do better now. Miss Gross and I, [Preps], Miss Abbott, a Special, and one other is in it besides some of the Seniors. Prof. Hinkle talks most all the time during the recitation. Nevertheless one can't get a perfect lesson to him, any more than to Miss Goodwin. Now I will tell about Chapter Alpha. The [Philalethian] is the Collegiate literary society. It is divided into Chapters. Chapter Alpha is the first one that has had an entertainment. I rec'd an invitation by the luckiest chance. Ella Moore invited Gorgie Morrill. I was in there when52 Miss Moore came for Gorgie and she said there was an extra invitation that I could use. So I went is high glee, although I almost felt as if I ought to stay at home and write on my composition. The entertainment was real nice. They had a poem and a story and a play, "My Uncle's Will," and two songs and a class in fanning. The last was best. The girls were all dressed in pretty evening costumes and had bright colored fans in their hands and small fans on their heads. The teacher represent a French gentleman, and in manners and accent, did her part to perfection. Last night the Exoterie had one of their entertainments. The Exoterie is the Prep. Literary society. It has entertainments once a fortnight. I never went to one before. The two nicest things were "Essence of Opera", and a Tableau. In the former Miss Parry as53 a lady and Miss [Rollinson] as a gentle man took the principal parts. There was an Opera box rigged up, and two ladies in it, who threw Miss Parry a ridiculous bouquet. They did their parts beautifully and took on exactly as they do at Operas, so those who have been to Operas, say. It was very cute. The tableau was 4 pictures. Just the frames with girls heads behind. The girls looked beautifully and looked just like picutres. I enjoyed it very much. Yesterday Ella, Jessie, and I went over to the Old Grave-Yard. It is on the College grounds but is out of limits. That is, we oughtn't to go there without permission. But we didn't know it. Gorgie and I payed it a flying visit one day. Yesterday we wanted to copy down the curious epitaphs. As we had no paper, I wrote them on my white skirt. I think I will here record them. The one most worthy of note is the fol-54 -lowing: "In memory of John A Low, who died Apr. 16, 1828, aged 48 yrs. 10da. "Remember me as you pass by; As you are now, so once was I; As I am now so will you be; Prepare for death and follow me." Beneath can be faintly discerned pencil writing, which we with difficulty made out to be the following: "To follow you I am not content, Until I know which way you went." Grace Hygant said that, when that was written, one of the Profs. discovered it, and the young ladies were rebuked in chapel and the one who did it advised to go with a wet sponge and efface it. Accordingly she went with a sponge, but did not entirely efface it, it seems. The others were not so remarkable; but I copy down all that have epitaphs. "In Memory of Michael Palmer, who died Dec. 9. 1809, aged 50 yrs. 8 mos." The epitaph as from the Bible, Timothy 4 chapter, 15 verse. Another was John Albert, son of Albert55 and Jane Gregory of [Warwaling], Ulster Co. Died Feb 14, 1846, aged 16 yrs, 3 mos. 12 da. "So fades the lovely, blooming flower, Frail, smiling solace of an hour. So soon our transient comforts fly, And pleasures only bloom to die." Another, "Died 14 1828. John Jacob, son of John A. Low, aged 2 yrs. Weep not o'er the [tones] of infancy Flowers of sweetest bloom must pass away" That's what I thought ought to be put on my stone. Jessie was going to engrave it for me. "In Memory of Jane L. Gregory, who died Feb. 5. 1824, aged 44 yrs. 'In the midst of life we are in death'" "In Memory of Eunice Low, who died Nov. 16. 1842, aged 59 yrs. 9 mos. 9 da. Weep not for me." The grave yard is a curious place, not much larger than this room, containing 2 or 3 apple-trees and over-grown with briars. Some of the stones are [overthrown] or out of place. When we left the grave-yard and we went56 to one of the farm houses a little beyond, for some water. Not because we wanted any, but because Ella and Jessie had a curious desire to see. They were cleaning house, and had lots of stuff out of doors; but handed us a pitcher and glass for water out of a crack in the door. It didn't look nice, so we made believe drink and Ella stood behind us and poured part of the water out. My Composition. I ought to have had a composition a week ago last Sat.; but I misunderstood Miss [Hoode], our teacher, and thought she wanted us to write about "What I have done in Essay Writing." Finding myself mistaken after I had the first draft all done, I went to her. She told me to write a short business letter to her on that subject, and write a composition on something. I'd seen or heard or read or done and hand it in a week later. Now, I've never seen anything I could write nicely about. I've never57 done anything that I could write nicely about. I never read anything that I could write nicely about, except our "Mutual Friend." I began on that. A hopeless task! What should I do I never had such a time writing a composition before. In chapel, last Sunday night, I glared the sunject in the face. At last, almost in despair, I came to a grim resolution. To write out a thing that had really happened to some of my relations. I had written it before, in connection with some other things, for a composition. But that copy of it was at home, so I wrote it all out, in a much more extended form. I hope she will like it. I handed it in the last thing last night. I had to hurry to finish it on account of the [Exoteric] and the Phil. (Short for Philalethian). Firday, Nov. 8th 1878. Miscellaneous. I haven't written any for quite a while58 and I have quite a lot to say if I can think of it all. We had the first snow storm of the year last Wed. the 27th. Miss [Varnes] truly remarked that the fates were against our learning to draw; for we have taken lessons only three weeks, and the first two it rained and this week it snowed. Notwithstanding the adversity of the fates, we have made considerable progress. I can make quite a cube, and next week we begin on curved lines. We have to draw everything from "nature". The lake is being drained. I walked half-way around it Wednesday after the storm cleared away, and there was only a small pond in the very deepest part and a few little brooks running in the bed. The bottom is very dirty, and looks muddy, and I am glad it is to be cleared out. The weather has become real cold and winter sacks and mittens are coming out. My hands are chapping and they never did before. [I] [lie] very hateful. We girls have great times about air. I will keep the windows of the parlor down a little59 at the top all the time and give the parlor a regular airing-out while we are to breakfast. But Ella and Jessie would starve for air. Have had two or three letters from home this week. Mother sends money in every letter, either bills or [scrip]. The "Vassar Miscellany" has come. Its first number was published in Nov., because they made some alterations in its form, size, etc. It is published once a month in the form of a magazine and is real nice. It costs $1.50 per year. I have come upon an old friend. His name is "Office Pencil." Now "Pencil" is my hobby. I want one not too hard, and not too soft, and not too large, and not too small, etc. I had some time ago decided upon "Office Pencil" as the best of the whole family of Pencils. But alas! I lost all traces of my beloved "Office Pencil" and could find him no more, although I inquired after him of every [drimmer] who had any acquaintance with the "pencil family." So I was compelled to make the acquaintance of other60 "Pencils," but I had never found one that could equal "Office". But the other day in Greek class, I happened to glance at Miss Merrick, as she was writing, and I saw something that looked strangely familiar. In looking closer I beheld "Office Pencil." Oh, their [sic] did I rejoice, and such to the Office in the College, and there found that "Office Pencil" could be at any time obtained. Such is the thrilling tale. Tonight after Chapel, Miss [Turner], Miss Wheeler, and I went into Gorgie's to study Livy. We stayed about an hour and didn't translate a word of Livy. We got to talking about Wellesley and Vassar and their [sic] about ourselves, our folks, our circumstance and all feel the need of being economical. But I guess I am rather best off of them all. For Miss Wheeler and Miss Turner may not be able to come more than a year. Gorgie can come as long as her father has a parish, probably. But she feels as if her sister [Lulie] has more of a right to go than she, for she is a61 better scholar. And she feels as if they were making sacrifices for her at home. But I think that nothing can happen to keep me from my course here. I am sure I am very, very fortunate. But I think a little space here is due to an account of our First Spread. Not a very wonderful affair, indeed. Merely a little social time between our parlor, Gorgie and the Japs. You Jessie thought it would be nice to get some Apples and have them to eat in the evening among a few. So she bought [these] at Flegner's farm-house and borrowed some plates. Then she bought some pea-nuts of the candy-man and arranged them very prettily on a box-cover, covered with a napkin. Among the parlor and Gorgie, we made out enough napkins and knives. The Japs came at 8.15 P.M. Gorgie, as soon as she got [threw] practicing and we ate apples and peanuts all the evening. Toward nine o'clock, Gorgie went62 home and brought in some ginger-bread and sugar-cakes she had sent from home in a box with other things. We all had a pleasant time chatting, until the bell for Silent Time struck. Miss [Stematz] told us a comical experience about breaking Silent Time and the lecture it called forth from Miss Hackell, their Corridor teacher. Miss Hackell is real strict. Miss Hubbard isn't. We have btter times and make at least as much noise during Silent Time than any other portion of the day. Well, I must close now. It is almost Silent Time. Tuesday, Nov. 12th 1878. Gym Suits. Yesterday Jessie, Misses Nagai and Yamakawa and I went to walk together and went to Mrs. Wheeler's to see about Gym suits. We were consulted about them last week; but I wanted to write home first about it. The best ones cost $0.50. Mother says it isn't cheap; but not very high; and I had better have mine made here, and63 it would be right. Mine is to be gray with a darker gray trimming. They are uniforms, but differently trimmed. The skirts are quite full and the waists sailor with sailor collar. If I wear this out I shall have another made prettier at home. These are homely. The girls wear them from morning till right after exercise and then change them for dinner. Sunset Hill in a Cloudy Day. Today I started out to walk alone and went up Sunset Hill. There I came back to the College and met Miss Yamakawa and we went up together. The day had been dark and cloudy; but the scene was beautiful. Sunset Hill lies to the south-east of the College Buildings and is ascended by pretty gravelled paths. I went up on the north side and paused to look at the scenery. The College lay clustered among the evergreens, the only things looking like life. An undulating country was streting away on all sides, dotted here and there with houses and clusters of trees64 with bare branches on with foliage of a dull red. The hills, enclosing the whole were of a deep, deep purple hue, while in one place were dimly seen the out-line of light blue hills, far away. The sky was lovely, and I believe sky scenery is my favorite. The clouds were in piles on layers one above another and were of all shades of blue and drab, the colors blending most harmoniously and fading into one another. On the south side of the hill the stretch of country is not so extensive, but no less picturesque. I particularly noted one strip of land that was of a bright emerald green, in strong contrast to the faded brown of the rest of the scene. The hills enclosing the scene on this side were of a dark indigo blue and very beautiful. Here the sky showed patches of blue beneath the fleecy white clouds, and the whole was dotted with small clouds of a particular reddish purple hue. The whole was charming; but its chief beauty today consisted on the rich tints of the hills and clouds. Before Miss [Stematz] and I came in the whole western sky was65 ablaze with golden light, as if a great fire was burning behind the clouds. Friday, Nov. 15th 1878 Pass-ery. I had to go to the Dr. and to Miss Woods yesterday between dinner and Chapel. Miss Woods criticized my composition. Said it was very nice, that the two scenes were very well carried out, etc.; but that I was rather long in getting to the main thing, and that my description was too much like the old style of writing, and was not sprightly, as I would talk. There are three Gym classes, the strong, middle and weak. Dr. Webster asked in which she had better put me. I said the strong. She thought I did not look hardly strong enough for it, but let me go into it if I would promise to tell her if it was too hard for me. I must tell a good thing that happened about [Pass.] Miss E.J. Wheeler and Miss Turner decided to go down town together this66 afternoon and to go and hurry right back, They hadn't told any one that they were going; but Kitty Angel, Miss Wheeler's roommate, overheard them say they were going. Not long after, [Pass] came into their parlor and wanted to know if any of them were going down town. All said no, but Kitty thoughtlessly said Miss Wheeler was. Then Miss W. came in, and Miss Pass asked her if she might go with her. Now, probably Pass only wanted to have some one show the way around, and the girls were to be in a hurry, and Pass isn't a universal favorite. So Miss W. said she wasn't going. Sat. but Fri. "Well," said Miss P. "I can go just as well Fri., and Sat. Can I go with now?" "I have nothing to do about it," said Miss W. "Miss Turner invited me to go with her, and I have no right to invite one." "Well," persisted Pass, "If I ask Miss Turner if I may go, may I?" Of course Miss W. could only say "yes". The only way to get rid of her was for Miss Turner to avoid her, so she would not have a chance to ask her. When I67 went, as usual, into Miss Turner's room the first period after lunch to read Livy, they were busy talking about it. They arranged for Misses T. and W. to "scoot" into the bedrooms if there was a knock. They "scooted" twice, once for Miss Morrill and once for Miss Yamakawa, whom we expected, as being members of our Livy club. Then they decided to put an "Engaged" on the door, thinking that of course no one would knock after viewing that. But we were just nicely to work when we heard a knock. The girls run [sic] and Miss Howe opened the door. Of course 'twas Pass. No one else would be so rude. There was great deal of indignation among the Livy club, and all thought that she ought to be instructed in College etiquette. Miss Turner and Pass are in the same Latin class, so as soon as it was out, Miss Turner [scud]. So far she had evaded her persecutor. Miss Howe said she deserved to be accompanied by some one she didn't like if she couldn't keep out of her way for 1-1/2 days. After Chapel Miss Turner68 waited at night after Chapel till she thought Miss P. would be in her room. But, alas! Just as she was about to enter her room Miss P. came out. Miss T. turned a run upstairs. Pass followed, caught her, exclaimed "You're just the person I want to see." Miss T. was very cool and I guess Pass suspected something. Anyway they both went in the same car; but they didn't speak or go together. It was too rich for anything. Miss Howe's parting advice to Miss T. when she thought perhaps Pass would go with her was to "squelch." But Pass was pronounced un-squelchable. Miss Wheeler said Pass invited her to go with her to walk Tuesdays. Miss W. told her that she was going to take her Tuesday's walk mornings after that. "Oh" said Pass, "I can take my walk mornings just as well, and I think it's better." Chapter Beta is having a spree tonight. Jessie is having her teeth straightened and goes down town every Wed. and Sat.69 Tuesday, Nov. 19th 1878. Mrs. Ray's Party for the Preps. Last week all the Preps. rec'd cards from Mrs. Ray inviting us to spend Sat. eve with her from 7 to 9. Jessie and Ella didn't go, and I went with Miss E.J. Wheeler. Mrs. Ray rec'd us all and talked with us and we all talked to each other if we could think of anything to say. I floated around for a while and finally settled down in a corner (on my knees, as I could find no chair) with Misses Yamakawa, Sharp, Buckalnd, Nickerson, Howe and Turner. We had quite a nice time. For refreshments there were cake, coffee, and ice cream. The cake was Mrs. Ray's birthday cake, a very large white cake, beautifully frosted. The ice cream was of many flavors and looked beautifully laid in stripes of pink, yellow and brown. We didn't get home till the lights-out bell struck, 10 min. of 10. Mrs. Rays birthday was last Wed. Pres. Caldwells was the same day also. He was 58, she 38. Cora has not been very well and70 Jessie is not feeling well tonight and Ella was quite sick this morning and I am not feeling particularly smart. A bright feeling set of girls. It rained all day Sunday and I wrote letters. Had a letter from Harry this week. Today I was provoked. Gorgie Morrill and I walk together lately. Today she walked with Miss [Moan]. So I invited Miss E.J. Wheeler to go with me. She forgot it was Tuesday and she was going with Miss Pass. But as we were starting out we met Pass. So of course we three went together and talked "horse" all the hour. Wednesday Nov. 20th 1878. Boundary of my World. Last night in Chapel lots of names were read off of girls admitted to the Freshman class. Viva, Misses Warren and Yamakawa were admitted. Tonight the seats were changed in chapel. Everyone is put in alphabetical order. I have an outside corner seat now. This morning as Jessie and I were going to break-71 fast, she said; "There was a fire last night." "Was there, where?" I ask, interested and wondering for my thoughts are not outside the College Grounds. "on Sunset Hill," was what I thought she replied. "On Sunset Hill?" For how could that be; there is nothing there but trees. "Beyond Sunset Hill." "Oh," and my interest subsides, and I ask no more questions. This little conversation first showed me how small my world has become since I came here. I think of nothing outside and am interested in nothing outside. I have no desire to go beyond the red fence except it be to the old Graveyard or something of the sort, which I almost feel as if ought to be on the College Grounds. I could scarcely be persuaded to go to Po'keepsie for the town. I take no interest in the affairs of the world at present. I am just enough interested to be glad that Butler isn't elected Governor in Mass. and that Harriet Hosmer is making wonderful72 scientific discoverier. But, after all, its a sort of a negative or [passive] glances. I take an interest in the [news] they write from home, but really it don't amount to much to me. Whether it's as it ought to be or not, I don't know. But I am contented here, and I am learning, and I am laying up in my mind knowledge and and [sic] am deciding on principles and precepts that shall be useful to me when I bid goodbye to Vassar and go out into the world that for four years is to remain almost dead to me. Thursday, Nov. 21st 1878. H. Y. Hunter The other night Ella wanted to send a subscription to the business editor of the "College Herald" published where she used to go to school. She knew his name was Hunter hut did not know his initials. So she thought she would address it to J.H. Hunter. "Perhaps his name's John Henry" said Jessie. "H.Y. stands for unknown [quantier]," said I. So she said she would address it so, and I73 made the H and Jessie the Y, and Ella wrote the rest and put on all his long address. When her "College Herald" came she saw his initials were W.J. She was going to write to the girls that she knows there and tell them about it. Sunday, Dec. 8th '78. Conditions off. It is a long time since I've written in this, but it has not been because I've had nothing to say. On the contrary I've very great deal to say. Now the first and most important is about my conditions. Three weeks ago several of the girls had been admitted to the Freshman class. And Miss Howe had just been examined in Phys. Geog. and had passed on an easy examination. Sat. the 23rd of November I was siezed with a desire to get off my conditions. I took my Phys. Geog. and said I shouldn't leave it as long as I had a spare moment. I told Miss Howe, that, inspired by her noble example I had taken to my Physical. I didn't expect to make it up that day, but Gorgie74 said I could. I studied steadily all day, only leaving for lunch and exercise. I saw Miss Hackell, and she said I might come to her immediately after dinner. She said she thought I wouldn't need to see Miss Morse about it first, as Miss Morse had said to her that I would probably soon be ready for examination. So after dinner I went to her room. I was examined and passed. Miss Moore called me Monday, and told me that I'd better go to Miss Brown, the teacher of history, and have her direct my work, that I might use my time to the best possible advantage. She told me to go to Miss B. Tuesday night. I studied hard all Monday and Tuesday, and, when I went to Miss B., was examined and paired my Greek and Eastern History. Then I put my mind to my Roman. Miss B gave me a list of dates that I might learn only the most important ones. Saturday morning I was examined and passed on my Roman History. So I was full Freshman, yet was not yet announced. I expected to be announced Tuesday, but I was not. I don't know what the matter was.75 Tomorrow I will go to Miss Morse and see why. I'll not be really Freshman till I'm announced. But I'm so glad to get my conditions off. Miss Brown has a sister prepared for Freshman. She was examined at the same time I was in Boston. I have lots more to say, but I guess I will write no more now. Monday, Dec. 9th 1878 Freshman. Freshman! Yes, I was announced tonight in Chapel. Oh, I am so glad to get it off my mind. Miss Phillips was also announced in Chapel. I went to Miss Morse today at her office hours, and she told me that I was Fresh. and would be admitted tonight. I suppose now I'll go to class Meetings and have some class paper and go over to the other side of the Chapel and go into Mrs. Ray's Bible Class and join Phil. and all sorts of things. ["Quid agamus."] I suppose it is to be my motto henceforth. I hope our '78 will show folks what we can do and that it will be nothing useless76 Traveling List. Tonight we made out our travelling lists. Blanks were distributed in corridor meeting. 'On what train do you leave Poughkeepsie?' 'What is your destination' 'Describe definitely your route and state on what railroads you will travel.' 'Do you wish the College conveyance?' (Horsecar) 'Do you wish the College to take your baggage to the depot? If so, what and how many pieces?' 'What is your name and the number of your room?' The College checks the baggage and buys the tickets. But I shan't take any baggage and shall go on the boat if the weather is pleasant; if not, on the cars. New Students. There are 4 new students since Christmas. All Preps. It seems a funny time to come. Miss Anna Van Allyn sit [sic] at our table. She seems quite nice and is pretty. Is very homesick. Miss Ryder is another. She seems nice too.77 Tuesday, Dec. 10th '78. Class Meeting A meeting of the Freshman Class was called immediately after dinner. Miss Baldwin is Pres.; Miss [Starr], Vice-Pres.; Miss Case, treasurer; Miss Smith, secretary. The class paper is lovely. It is 60 [cts.] a quire. Tonight I took my seat on the south side of the Chapel between Misses Smith (not the Sec.) and Stanton. There are 33 in our class, and more to come. There was only about 20 at the beginning of the year. Sunday, Dec. 15th 1878. Going Home. Next Thursday I start for home. Oh, its perfectly glorious. I can't think of anything else. I'm all of a bustle with the thought. Yesterday men came out with checks and tickets. I bought my ticket to New York. Almost everybody is going, and those that are not going wish they were. But as it is so near vacation, I think I78 ought to write something about the many things that have happened and are worthy of notice. First there's Thanksgiving Day. We had three day's vacation, Thursday, Friday, and Saturday. In the morning there was a short service in the Chapel. There was no lunch, but things were placed on the table at breakfast in order that if we were hungry, we might have come to take to our rooms and eat. I brought something down, but did not eat anything. We went to dinner at 3 o'clock. Quite a large number of the girls were away, and those that remained had the privelege of making up their own tables. We did not make up any and were put at Miss Baldwin's. More of the teachers preside at the scholar's tables Thanksgiving. All the Prof.'s families come in, too. Dinner lasted about 1-1/2 h. There were printed bills of fare. I had one, and will copy it here.79 Thanksgiving Dinner. Vassar College. Nov. 28, 1878 Bill of Fare. Soup. Chicken. Julienne. Roast. Turkey. Beef. Cranberry Sauce. Apple Sauce. Entrees. Fried Oysters. Chicken Salad. Relishes. Chow-chow. Celery. Mixed Pickles. Worcestshire Sauce. Olives. Vegetables. Baked Sweet Potatoes. Stewed Tomatoes. Mashed Potatoes. [Grun] Pear. Pastry. Mince Pie. Pumpkin Pie. Cranberry Tarts. Dessert. Vanilla and Chocolate Ice Cream. Orange Ice. Mixed Fancy Cake. Pound Cake. Chocolate Cake. Nuts and Raisins. Apples. Orange and Grapes. Coffee. Tea.80 The Julienne and Roast Beef weren't brought on, but we might have had it if we had wanted it. We had the Orange Ice, Ice Cream, and Cake in the evening. After dinner there was dancing in Room J. and games were played in the recitation rooms, Rachel and Jacob, and Initiation. At 7 o'clock, every body started for the Lyceum, as there was to be a play there. It was splendid. The principal thing was a [sort] of a band. All the teachers took part. Misses Goodwin and [Hecock] played the Bells. Mrs. Ray, Glasses. Prof. [Barchive], Castanets. Mr. Caldwell the Pres. [sow)], [Torpedors]. It was all like that. When they first came in they were dressed in overcoats and fire and looked ever so pretty. Then there was a play, "The Parlor Car." The last thing was "Ching-a-ling-a-ling." Some one, not on the stage, sang the song, "Ching-a-ling-a-ling was a Chinese boy," and somebody came dancing in, who personated a Chinese very well indeed. Then the song went on, something about his going to San Francisco to see his sweet-heart, and a Chineese girl came in. Then Ching-a-ling laid81 down to sleep under the shade of a huckleberry (an evergreen, on the stage) tree. And along came an Indian with a tomahawk and cut off his pig-tail. It was perfectly comical. They repeated it. After the entertainment, we returned to Room J. and had refreshments. Sailor. is Prof. Hinkle's dog. Oh, so homely. You would see him trotting around with Prof. or off on excursions alone. Especially comical did he look, when covered with a sort of a coat of drab linen which "flopped" around him in a most curious manner. But alas! Poor sailor was old and infirm. They concluded they must get rid of him. So he was shot. The Hinkle's were greif-stricken at his death. One day in Greek class, Prof. looked as if he'd been crying. No doubt on account of Sailor. And they all felt so badly for him that they couldn't go to the party that Prof. MItchell gave to the teacher. Well Sailor, peace be to your memory.82 Various Cats and Dogs. Vassar has the greatest number of cats around. There are pretty cats and homely cats. There is one half-blind cat, and one three footed cat. The cats with whom we are best acquanted are a large black cat and a gray and white cat. The black cat is a great favorite of Stematz's. She has often been in here and has made herself quite at home. The gray and white cat was here all one day last week, and we didn't know but she'd taken up her abode here. Over on the north corridor are a gray cat and two kittens, which belong to Miss Jones. The kittens are very pretty and nice, and have very noble titles, Julius Caesar and Tiberius Gracchus. Well, now for the dogs, I have related the sad story of Sailor, and now will mention the others. There is a large white dog with a black head here, that, for want of a better name, Jessie and I called Jack. Then there are two little dogs, a brown one and a black and tan one that belong to somebody in the College. They have both paid us visits, and seemed to consider our society very83 agreeable. No one knows their names, so we called them both "Sammy" after our "beloved" president and his son. Brown Sammy followed me in an gave rise to the beautiful song, "Anne had a little dog Whose fleece was brown as dirt; And everywhere that Anne went, He tagged close to her skirt." It is not often we indulge ourselves by composing such high [soulded] strains; but this shows our power. Black Sammy created quite a sensation last night in Chapel. The poor fellow wanted to see what religion was like, I suppose. And with a desire to see if everybody was devout, he travelled under the pews over the Chapel. When they sung the hymn, Black Sammy wanted to sing, too, but everybody laughed at him, even the teachers and Mrs. Ray, whom one would think had politeness enough to restrain herself from hurting poor doggie's feeling. Prof. Dwight tried to catch Black Sammy, and after the second attempt suc-84 -ceeded in catching him. Black Sammy entered a despairing cry as he was borne in triumph out of the Chapel. He came down to Gorgie's and to our rooms, and having received consolation for the rude treatment he had receceived, he determined to try again and go to the Concert which was to be held that evening in Chapel. But alas! This last attempt was more unsuccessful than the first and he was taken out before he had heard even the first piece that was played. I forgot to mention that the cats here have great musical ability and that the corridors are most excellent places for them to exercise their lungs. Concert. The Cocert last nice [sic] was very nice. Jessie and I went together and had a front seat in the gallery. Miss Freidenburg played twice. She is a beautiful player. Is a Jewess, and shows it very plainly in her face, and is strong in her faith. She is the one who lost her watch this fall. Miss Cooley sang twice. Has a very nice voice, but has85 a large head, which she rolls on one side, and such an insipid, affected snide that I don't like to look at her. Then Miss Rustin played beautifully and Misses Dow and Shaw on two pianos. I enjoyed it very much. New Bible Class. Was transferred to Mrs. Ray's Bible Class today. Like it much better than Miss Avery's. In the latter's was always sleepy, and usually sat next [Co], who whispered to me and amused me with her various antics. Mrs. Ray held my interest close all the time, and said a great deal in a short time. The service today was 1 hour and 20 min. long. There are 3 prayers 2 hymns sung by congregation, 3 by Choir, reading of the Psalms and sermon. Horribly long. The Rhetoric says that a person ought to bring his lecture or sermon to a close when his congregtion expect him to do so, or they lose interest. I don't think Dr. Caldwell understands that for I thought he was going to stop at least86 half-a-dozen times before he did, and every one got restless. Breaking Silent Time. The Saturday after Thanksgiving, Miss Nagai invited Gorgie, Jessie and I up to her room that evening. A little while after, we went up to Viva's room to go with her on top of the house and Miss Nagai was there. We went in the elevator to the 5th Centre and then up a pair of stairs. Here we saw a lots of sleds piled up waiting for snow. Also 2 immense iron tanks full of water, of which we couldn't imagine the use. There we climed [sic] a ladder built into the house and reached a small platform where we could gaze down into the library a long way below us. Then, Miss Nagai taking the lead, we climed [sic] up a short ladder, out of a door, and stood in the square space, top of the College, where the flag-staff is. The flag was at half-mast. When we came down we heard that there was to be a Sheet and Pillow-case Party in Room J., to which all were invited. Of87 course we wanted to go and busied ourselves making a comical mask. Pass copied and Gorgie dressed her and she went to the party. Miss Nagai came down and told us to go if we wished, But we said we wanted to go to both places but preferred to go to see her. We found Miss Stematz quite sick. She had a real bad cough. She hasn't got over it yet. It makes her sick. We had cranberry jell [sic] and cake and apples and molasses candy. We came down at Silent Time and went into Gorgie's room. Now in our room we always used to have jolly times in Silent Time. One night Gorgie was in here and Jessie and Ella were having a water-fight. We always used to have nice times and to make a good deal of noise. And we thought Miss Hubbard exceedingly nice not to say anything about it. Well that night, Pass was telling us that she had a nice time and all about it in a pretty loud tone of voice. Well, there came a knock and Gorgie calmly said, "Come" Miss Hubbard appeared. "Young ladies," said she, "were you aware that the bell for Silent88 Time had struck?" Then she left without waiting for an answer. I very obediantly trotted home. Jessie staid and heard the rest of the story. She wasn't seen at all, as she sat on a cricket by the register between Miss McFadden and Gorgie. But the best joke was that Pass was caught. For you must understand that Pass is very good. Every morning, when you pass her window at Silent Time, you see her seated before her open window with her Bible open on her trunk (which has a red calico covering), very devoutly reading. If by any chance her window doesn't happen to be open you will find that she isn't reading her Bible, but is at some other occupation. Well we have since been caught breaking Silent Time. But I don't understand the latter times. Why, we were remarkably good. To be sure I had been telling Jessie and Ella about Miss Berringer; but it was all in a low tone of voice. The windows and the transum, however, were open. Now we keep the windows and transum, but not our mouths, shut in Silent Time.89 Wednesday, Dec. 18th 1878. Last Day. Oh joy! My last lesson is recited and now the last things are to be done and I am going home. Hi yah, etc.! Go to N.Y. tomorrow on the 8.25 A.M. train and take the boat tomorrow at 4.50 P.M. at New York. And father will meet me at the Canton depot at 5 or 6 A.M. Friday. Heigho! How slowly these last days have gone. For more than a week they have dragged; but especially have they done so since Miss Varnes said there were 6 more chances to flunk. But, oh jolly! tomorrow morning we start. Tuesday, Jan. 7th, 1878 Back Again. Here we are, back at College, obeying bells and studying lessons. Oh, if we could only have had a week or so more vacation. A big and obstinate if; but there's no use lamenting. Of course we had a perfectly elegant time, we who went90 home. And those who stayed, although they found it a little dull sometimes, wished never-the-less, that the vacation would not end. I went with Ella to N.Y. Then took the horse cars to the boat. Met Miss Blake, a Senior who is in my Greek class, on the boat, and shared her state-room. Also met Miss Wentworth, a Senior, and her father. Saw for a moment Miss Tappan. Had a nice time. On the next state-room to ours there was a woman who was very communicative and caused us a good deal of merriment. "Mr. Richardson" had procured her room for her and she was terribly afraid a man would get in. Got to Canton before light Friday morning and I could never realize that there was any night between that time and the time I left College. Father and Mother met me at the Canton depot. I had a cold all the time. I was home and was about sick. Went to the Birdgewater Normal School to see my High School mates. I enjoyed that very much. The contrast between the schools is very91 great. Noticed it more in regard to the Dining-room and remaining in their own rooms, than anything else. They can't go into each others rooms all day. Sunday, Saturday morning and every evening after 7 P.M. Have Inspection Day every Thursday, to see that they do no damage to rooms, etc. Table-fare is much poorer there than here. Can't use the bath-tubs but one fixed time a week. Do their own sweeping, etc. Went to a lecture by Senator Harris while there. It was mostly concerning Fulton and his inventions. Went to a lecture the next Tuesday night. "The Sunny Side of Prison Life," by Homer Sprague. Well, last night I left home. Saw Misses Wentworth and Tappen, but scarcely to speak. Stayed in the cabin. Took the horsecars to Central Depot and came here on the half past ten train. Had a good deal to do in the way of unpacking and getting things in order. But that's all right now. Seems kind of nice to be here, but if we could have had another week. The92 Western girls are not back. Snowed in. And, oh joy! Miss Goodwin is snowed in and there wasn't any Livy today. Well, I must study. Sunday, Jan. 12th 1879. Ella's Cat. When I first came back, Jessie informed me that we had an addition to the family. A kitten that Ella had brought from home. Maltese kittens are very scarce in [Philad.], so one of her friends, who had a maltese cat and 6 kittens sent them to Ella's home. A Miss Jones that is here has a cat and two kittens here, and why shouldn't we have a kitten, too? So Ella brought a plump little kitten back. She called it Myra after its giver. I didn't see the kitten till night, as it was lost. but Jessie found it and brought it here and Ella fed it and it ate heartily. At night she put it in the corridor and it was not found again till Thursday night. Then being of a literary turn93 mind it was meandering around the reading room, when Miss Case saw it and brought it to Ella. She, not wishing to lose it again, decided to tie a long string around it and not let go far. It would eat nothing that night, and from that time, pined away. It lay all day on Ella's shawl without moving; but it had a vomiting spell once or twice a day. Sat. afternoon, as I sat here alone, it half rose and then fell down and lay out still. Every little while it did this, and I knew that it was dying. Knowing that I could do nothing for it, and not liking to look at it, I went into Gorgie's room to study. When Tomas came to bring my chair and fix Ella's bed, he said it was dying and took it away. My Rocking-Chair, that mother sent me from home got a broken rocker by [Co] Shailer's tripping Jessie back in it. I thought the Janitor could mend it, and dropped a note to him every day for some94 time. At last, a few days before vacation, a man came to mended [sic] it. But he said the rocker couldn't be mended. And he took it off and told me to give it to the College Espress-man and he would take it and get me one sawed out just like it. Not knowing where to see the College Express-man or anything about him, and being busy, I neglected it till I decided to carry it home. I did so and father sawed me a new rocker out of oak instead of black walnet, and stained it. I brought it back, and, oh joy! got it put on by Sat. Surely a month my chair lay on its side in the corner, a poor, wounded thing. I devoutly hope I may never break anything else that belongs to me, it is such a bother to get it mended. Monday, Jan. 13th '78 A Quick Sunday. Yesterday was a nice quiet Sunday95 to me. In the morning there was no Bible class, as Mrs. Ray, the Freshman's teacher, was sick. Then I had a bad cold so I thought I'd better not go to Chapel, and I got the doctor to excuse me from today. It is the first time I have been to her to get excused from anything. Then at night the "Society of Religious Inquiry" met, so we had no Chapel. I wrote letters all day and enjoyed it immensely. Ella's Bed. It is now for two nights that I have not been awakened by an unearthly noise like the firing off of a revolver at dead of night. Some nights the crash would be terrific, because half a dozen of Ella's slats would go bang to the floor. Never a night passed but what I was awakened at least once by the dropping of one or more slats. But Thomas came Saturday and now we sleep undisturbed by falling slats. One night Ella got up in the middle of the night and fixed them. But her trials are now over.96 Skating. I have been on my skates (Mother's Christmas present) three times. I haven't fallen but twice, and then Jessie was pushing or drawing me. I can get along over the ice, but don't dare to say I can skate. Miss Warren, however held me up as an example to Abbie, also a beginner. I can take a short awkward stroke with one foot, but their [sic] all my skill ends. Sunday, Jan 26th 1879. My Barbecue. Oh, it's so long since I've written and I've so much to say. First, I must tell you about the Barbecue, which happened Jan. 11th. The Livy Club were all invited and all attended, except Miss Yamakawa, who had not returned from vacation. I told them that this was a Social not a Political Barbecue, which was so much more extensive than a political barbecue that they might all have an ox roasted whole. Then I brought on, not only oxen,97 but sheep, cats, elephants, etc., all of which were roasted whole, in the shape of small crackers that I brought from home. I had also nuts, apples, and candy. Giving to the small number of drinking vessels we possessed (a mug and wine glass), I was obliged to make frequent journeys to the water tank. Napkins supplied the place of plates, but we all had knives and were very merry. Gorgie didn't come in as early as the rest as she had a German lesson to get. Shige was here. There were many jokes made and a good deal of laughing done. The following is a specimen of the jokes. "Where is Miss Morrill?" Miss Howe "Miss Morrill has evaporated, and, as evaporated substance always rise higher, she's gone to the fourth to study German." Jessie. "And the Moral(-rill) is 'take care where you [light].'" Miss Howe found a double almond and phialpened [sic] with Miss Wheeler, E.J. Well we got to speaking on some subject or other and Miss E.J. innocently asked, "It will do very103 much. We went to Hyde Park, a small place about 6 miles away. We stopped at an oldfashioned hotel. The walls were low, and the doors reached from ceiling to floor. At the windows, first there were common white curtains, there lambrequins over them, then lace curtains over the lambrequins, and heading all, a gilt moulding. As soon as we arrived, they, thinking we must be hungry, having waited so long, brought around sandwiches. We were hungry; and most of us partook so freely of them, that, when the table was set and we were called into the dining room, many of us were not at all hungry. The dining hall would not hold all, and things were brought to the rest of us. I do not think they had chairs enough for all. At any rate, some of us, seeing no chairs unoccupied, seated outselves in a social group on the floor, and talked in confidentially low tones of the coming election of class104 officers. We had oyster, crackers, biscuits, coffee, cookies, and ginger-snaps. Between 9 and 10 we started for home. Miss Lyon was in our sleigh going back, and part of the way entertained a portion of the load with snatches of comic recitations. At our end, toward the last, tbey got to talking about yellow fever and poverty. We enjoyed our sleigh ride very much and I saved a straw from that we put our feet upon, as did many others. I did not expect to have a single sleigh-ride this year. We reached home about eleven. Class Officer. We began to think about them sometime ago. We discussed matters and said that there was a regular class ring formed. That we did not wish this ring to have its own way, and we would nominate somebody ourselves. Miss Howe said Miss Stanton. We afterwards thought we liked Miss Starr better and Miss Howe readily fell in with105 our opinion. Afterwards we heard that Miss Lawrence was going to nominate Stanton. We knew Miss Sanford would be nominated. Miss Howe said she would nominate Miss Starr, Gorgie would second it. The day after the sleighride the class meeting was called, the business stated. No sooner had the Pres. (Miss Baldwin) said that the first nominations would be for Pres. than three sprang to their feet at once, all determined. Two sat down. Then Starr, Stanton, and Sanford were nominated. For Vice-Pres. Miss Howe nominated (and I seconded it) Viva. Miss Glen (Cora) was nominated for it. For secretary, Nicks and [Fouse]; for treasurer, [Semple] and Warder. First, we thought that Miss Stanton would get it. That there would not be a 2/3 majority and the one who had the least number (Starr) would be dropped. That then the Starrs and Stantons would unite and elect Stanton. Afterwards the Sanfords began106 to be hopeful; but Miss Lawrence worked hard for Stanton. Yesterday class meeting was called immediately after Silent Time. You might see little interesting groups. Miss Howe advised us not to stand by Starr when we saw there was no hope for her but to go for Stanton. The first ballot Miss Sanford 12, Stanton 10, Starr 9. "Not a 2/3 majority, and it will be necessary to vote again," announced our President. Miss Howe voted for Miss Stanton there and advised us, too. Why desert her so? She had almost as much hope as Stanton. The second time Starr held her ground, Stanton lost. Then Stanton gained, Starr lost, and, after the 4 or 5 ballot, a motion was made and seconded to drop the candidate who had least votes. Why would the Starrs be so fickle? If all had stood by her as firmly as Misses Lyon and Bartlett, Stanton might have been dropped and Starr put in or all dropped. Then we ballotted between the two. Time after time it was announced that107 there was not a 2/3 majority and it would be necessary to ballot again. The Stantons slowly gave way. The Sanfords were determined to stick to their candidate and put her in or compell all to be dropped. I admired their constancy. On the eleventh ballot Sanford was declared to be elected. After two or three ballots Viva was elected. Misses Nicks and Semple on the first ballot. I was satisfied with all but Pres. After it was ours, Miss Howe told me that she voted for Stanton every time. I told her I called that mean. "But see here," and she said that she propsed Stanton first. To be sure, but she readily assented when we preferred Starr. Then she'd no business to nominate her if she didn't like her best. But she nominated her for us. We could have done it for ourselves. She didn't then know that Stanton was to be nominated. (I think she did). But any way a told108 her I thought she was mean, in the real sense of the word. So did Gorgie and all who knew of it. "Don't you wish you were for Miss Sanford, so as to be on the victorious side?" asked Miss Case. No, I didn't, but I wailed over the fickleness of human nature. If they'd only stood by Miss Starr. She's so lovely. Sunday, Feb. 9th 1879 Being Sick. I have not been very well since vacation. In the first place I had a bad cold all through vacation and for sometime since I came back. Then I was not feeling well one Sunday (the 19th of Jan.) and went to the doctor to be excused from Chapel; and, as I looked bad, she sent me to bed to stay all day Sunday and Monday. As I didn't feel like going to bed I sat up all day in my big easy chair. To make me look sick, Jessie threw my comforter over the chair and I put a pillow behind my head and my feet in a chair. All that I wanted then was some 109 chalk to make me look white and some red ink to make hectic spots in my cheeks. Or, so I told Jessie. Then came the ordering of my dinner. Gorgie said that the girls often stayed away from breakfast and ordered something very nice to eat. "Why, Emma Bush had sardines and lots of good things one day in vacation. Order sardines." Well, in the first place I never ate sardines; second, I knew I should not like them; third, I thought they were not very good for a sick girl. Never-the-less, I told Jessie she might order them and she and Gorgie might eat them. So my order was made out - "Tea and Toast, Sardines, Jelly, Fruit, Crackers." At last the tray came. Sardines "there were none." Neither was there any jelly. Never-the-less I made a good dinner and no more aspired to sardines. They didn't give me any jelly at all, although they gave Gorgie some afterwards when she was sick. They must either have partial or out of Jelly when I ordered it. I believe I got everything else I ordered every time. That night110 Miss Hubbard came in to see me. She asked me if I wasn't able to go to supper. I told her that the Docter ordered me to go to bed and stay and order my meals. "And you didn't mind her," said Miss Hubbard, and went in to see Jessie who was also sick. That was a decided squelch. The next day I was determined to stay in bed, at least till after Miss Hubbard came in. I didn't study, but read some and wrote a little on my composition. I ordered a good dinner at night. Miss Hubbard had seen Jessie and Jessie had told her I was better so I didn't come in. Chapel was over and my dinner didn't come. So Ella went to see about it. She had dropped my order in the box and Miss H. hadn't gotten it, so I could have no dinner. Miss H. said Ella ought to have brought the order to her. She didn't know why it wasn't all right to drop it there, but as folks didn't generally do it, she didn't think to look in it. But Miss H. found that Miss Hulbert had some things, and she would bring them in. So I dined off of Albert biscuits and [wizeled] apples. The next day I went111 to my meals and to classes. Last Sunday night I was awakened by the a severe pain, which increased toward morning. When we got up, Ella gave me something hot but it did no good. Jessie went for Dr. Webster, and, while the girls were at breakfast, she came and took me to the Infirmary. It was the first time I went there. A mustard [plaster] took the pain away. I laid there all day without seeing any one but the doctor and Miss Ward, the nurse. I felt very much better the next day and got up and had a good breakfast. I didn't eat anything Monday but a slice of toast and a cup of tea. Tuesday I came out of the infirmary immediately after breakfast and Wednesday went to classes. Hope that's the last sickness I shall have. However, I've tried the Infirmary. It's very good if you are real sick; but if your [sic] only half-sick it's [horrid]. End of First Semester. The first semester ended Friday. I112 recited my last lesson in Geometry, Livy and Plato (I guess). It was so nice to have no lessons to prepare for Monday. Will go to classes Monday, but only to have lessons assigned. Haven't gotten to go to Latin at all Monday, as Miss Goodwin is to be away. But Tuesday's lesson is assigned. In Latin we have Horace. In Greek, Homer. Also Botany. Then, I expect, Drawing, Composition, and Elocution. The lessons were assigned and the hours. I was given Greek, 1st period, Latin, Fifth. As no Botany was given out for me, I went to Miss Morse to see about it and was given it the fourth period. Then last night the time of the Freshman Latin was changed, and mine comes the third. So now my lessons come almost together and I get all through by quarter past eleven. I don't think I shall like it. I bought me a Homeric Dictionary, and an elegant [Anthon's] Homer, both at second hand. Sent home for Harry's Botany. It isn't exactly like what they use here. What we learn is the same, but the tables113 for analysis are not as good. However I shall use it and analyze by Jessie's. I send home for an Anthon's Horace, and will use Gorgie's till mine comes. I felt Saturday as if I had a lot of leisure time and did many little jobs that have been waiting some time. Second Composition. I was given "Favorite Characters in Fiction" for a subject some time before Christmas. I didn't do anything on it before I went home. When I came back, I didn't get along on it very well and I went to Miss [Hoods] to speak with her about it. She offered to give me another week on it, and I was very glad to accept. I was to hand it in the Monday I went to the Infirmary. Jessie told Miss W. that I had gone there and she said I might hand it in when I was ready. I have finished it and was going to hand it in Saturday but she was out. Lots of the girls and teachers have gone to stay over Sunday, as it is a sort of a hol-114 -iday. We didn't have Bible Classes. I went to Chapel. I don't like Prexy's preaching. All the effect his sermons have on me is to make me cross, especially toward him. I don't like Pres. Caldwell. I think he's an old fogey. And he has two, big, awkward, homely sons that laze around here. All one of them seems to do is to practice skating in the morning, skate with the girls in the afternoon, skate with the girls in the evening, provided they skate. He is an awful skater and the girls make no end of fun of him. I should think he'd be ashamed to laze around so. If I was Prex I would put him to work at something, if it was running the engine that runs the "eleviator." Prexy's wife is the inevitable little dried up woman with corkscrew curls at the side of her face. When I first came here, I knew she must be Prex's wife as soon as I set eyes on her, although then I knew scarcely any of the115 lady's that belong here. Day of Prayer for Colleges was the 30th of January and was a holiday. There was a service in Chapel, but I didn't go, and staid at home and wrote on my essay. Mrs. John's Call. One day when Jessie was alone here, she found that Mrs. John's (the matron) was calling on this corridor. It was sweeping day, but Ellen hadn't been here, and the room looked like fury. So Jessie locked the door and proceeded to fix the room as she wished. In the first place, she had two pillows, and only one is allowed. Mrs. John's makes a great fuss if any of the girls have more than one. Jessie uses those pillows for shams and has her own that she brought from to lie on. Well, Jessie calmly put this into her bureau drawer. Then she rubbed out two pictures of [beads] that she had drawn on the116 wall, the man in the moon and another. In the mean time Mrs. John's had come, knocked, tried the door, and knocked again. Then Jessie went to the door with a book in her hand and a very studious expression on her countenance. She opened the door just a little, and Mrs. J. said she was around calling. Jessie said "yes'm, but it's sweeping day and Ellen hasn't been." "I wonder where Ellen can be?" said Miss J. "Well, as long as your waiting for her I guess I won't come in now." She departed and was seen no more. I don't know whether or not she has called again. There was a Concert in Chapel Firday evening. Franz Rummel played. I suppose he is one of the "bass" players. It began at 8 o'clock. There was an intermission when it was about half through, and, as Jessie and I were both very tired and didn't care to hear more, we came away. Was glad that I went and117 glad I came away when I did. Plato's Crito. I think I never said that we finished reading Herodotus three or four weeks ago. Prof. thought that there was no need of reading more, so he said we might read Plato's Crito. I detest Herodotus but rather like Plato. Prof. spent one whole week explaining the life of Socrates, Plato, Greek Philosophy, etc. It was very interesting and Socrates is my hero. I never had one before and I think Socrates is worthy of being one's hero. Philalethian. Friday, the 14th of Jan. the Philalethian had a grand entertainment, all the chapters partaking in it. I ought not be invited, as I am Collegiate and not a member, and if I hadn't been Collegiate might not have been invited. Of course I was crazy to go; but I really ought to have staid at home and written my118 composition. However, if I had had an invitation, I should have gone. Ella and Jessie had gone and I sat over my composition. Miss Shier came bursting in. "Where's Nell? I want her to go to Phil. with me." I replied that Ella had gone and remarked (oh, fool that I was) that I wished I could have gone. "Come on, go with me. I have an invitation to give away." Now here was a chance to go but - with Miss Shier. I wanted to go very much but did not want to go with her. If anyone else had asked me, I should immediately have accepted. As it was, I hung back and said that I couldn't as I was Collegiate. Miss Shier urged. I hung back. Then she flung open the next room door and asked Miss McFadden if she shouldn't think I might have hone. She hesitated, then said yes. So I said I would go, and Miss S. went for her things. Gorgie came in and said she wouldn't go if she was I with Miss S. And, when the first excitement of going was off, I was very sorry I had119 said I would go. Well, I thought better of it, decided not to go, and went to meet her and tell her. When she found that I really wouldn't go, she would not herself, as she didn't like to go alone. I was so sorry. If she had gone, I wouldn't have cared. Then Gorgie told me that she had an invitation for me, so I might have gone if I hadn't been so very foolish in the first place. She went up to Viva's to see if she couldn't give it away there. But she couldn't. She talked over my case with them and then advised me to go, as it was, on her invitation. But I would not. I think meaness would have been no name for that. I went to Miss Case's and Miss White's to give away the invitation, but did not succeed. So I staid at home and wrote my composition (it was on plea of that that I staid away). I think I was well paid for my folly. I have learned a good lesson and one that I shall never forget. Never agree to120 go to any place (no matter how much I want to go) with anyone I am ashamed of. Never accept favors from persons I can't endure. Sick Girls. Miss Yamakawa went home at the holidays sick and did not come back for some time after the rest did. She wasn't back long before she was sick again and had to go to the Infirmary. She is better now, but is going home soon. I am so sorry for her. I think she is a lovely girl, and so smart, and likes her studies, too. I am sometimes afraid she will never be well. Cora Shailer was quite sick, and she went home to New York for a few days. She didn't feel a bit better when she came back; but her mother had made arrangements to go to Boston, and she thought she'd be as well off here, so she came back. She was sick in the Infirmary a few days, but is all right now. Gorgie was sick, too, a few days. Did not go to the Infirmary, but staid in here most of the time and [doc-]121 -tored herself. Jessie is always being sick for a day or two. Viva was half-sick with a cold for a long, long time, and at last went home. She is quite sick, I hear, and won't come back for a long time. There has been a great deal of sickness here lately. Silhouettes. I love to make silhouettes. I have been practicing on a small scale for some time. But Jessie has been making lovely ones, not exactly silhouettes, but pictures with large black circles in them. There, that isn't plain, but I can't help it. I have been just crazy to make them, but have not had time till yesterday. Then Miss Turner and I made an engagement to make silhouettes. Miss Shier came in to make them. Oh dear! So we told Miss T. that she must invite us into her room. Tell us that we must come in. Very fortunately, Miss T. was expecting a call, so she couldn't come here. So we went there and left Miss S. I made most122 of one plate. I intend to send some home if I can get a good box. I love to make them. Feb. 16th 1879. Gorgie's Moving. Last Monday, after long and anxious waiting, Mrs. Ray gave Gorgie permission to move up to the 3rd North with Abbie, Cora, and Viva, where Miss Parry moved out. Of course Gorgie was delighted to get her permission at last. I was glad for her, too; but knew that I should miss her very much, for we were always running in and out of each others rooms, not caring for study hour, or any thing else. Gorgie moved Monday night. Co came down, and Jessie and I went in to see them and help some. We filled the baskets, carried them on the truck to the elevator, took them up in the elevator, and on a truck to 63. This has been the very longest week that I have known. I hope123 all won't be as long as this. We had a Class Meeting one day this week. Then we were given an invitation to the Trigg Ceremony Friday night. A committee were elected for the Freshman party and it was proposed that we should invite another class (the Junior) to join us. Also Miss Lyons was nominated as Class Prophet, Miss Semple as Class Historian. The Preps who had studied Freshman Geometry of Trigg. were also invited and the three teachers of mathematics, and we all looked forward to the Trigg Ceremony with anticipation of great pleasure. We were promptly on hand at the appointed time, and were handed small white rolls tied with pink tape. "People vs. Trigg." "We the people of this civilized land, do hereby accuse John Trigg of murder in the first124 degree. We charge him with the willful and premenitated murder of Miss Una Octaginta Vassar, found dead on Jan. 30th 1879, and we herewith summon the said John Trigg to account for the same." Having read our programes we gazed curiously at the ushers, regular policemen, with their brass-buttoned coats, white gloves, etc., and surveyed the court-room upon the stage, and waited impatiently for the affair to begin. At last the Judge, Lawyers, etc. took their places, and John Trigg, his countenance sad and depressed with the conviction of guilt, was brought in, clad in a black robe with gilt triangles and circles upon it, and having a cap made of three black and gilt triangles. The trial was well conducted, and contained many Trigonometrical terms. Una was killed with a log. One of the witnesses was Mrs. Napier, whose son and John Trigg were very intimate. The reasons of Trigg's125 dislike for Una, was because she had at first taken quite a liking to Napier, had then had a falling out with him, and finally given him up entirely. When Trigg heard this he was very angry, and declared that he would pay her off. John Trigg was convicted and condemned to be hanged by the neck till he was dead. The next scene was out-side his prison cell. Three women (personating Prof Braislin, Prof. Mitchell, and Miss Storr) were trying to get Trigg out. One had entered the cell, pratending to be a sister of Charity. They got an "unsuspecting Fresh." to help him, by pretending that Trigg was a fine fellow and of great use to mankind. So they lowered Trigg in a basket and got him off just before two policement came on the scene. The next scene represented Una Octaginta dressed all in white, lying on a couch, while around in a semicircle, were class-sisters, mournful, clad in black, singing and126 calling upon Una to rise. She stirs, opens her eyes as the song ends, and they joyful, surround her. Then there is a rush and John Trigg appears running toward her. But police follow closely and sieze him. And someone says that Una Octaginta in [sic] no longer in his power, and "Behold the Class of '82, all these shall be your victims." It was very nice. The last scene was beautiful. Miss Shaw, who personated Una Octaginta looked lovely. Saturday night I went to the Exoteric with Ella. It was quite nice. Had a tableau, a short play, an essay and a critique. There have been lots of Additions to our Class and we now number 44. It caused quite a sensation when they were all read off. And then we had to be reseated. We are seated in classes in127 alphabetical order, and we always know when we are told to remain after Chapel and see Miss Palmer with her plan. There is an eager listening, each one hoping to be read off for a corner. It is a great satisfaction, too, to leave [former] the Prep. side of Chapel; and to go to the other side and get a corner, too, ah! what good fortune. We have made some revolutions in our room as regards Rules and Regulations, etc. And now you can see upon our door a slip of paper bearing this notice, "books, notebooks, and blocks left on the table for one period are fined two cents. For half a period or more, one cent." It was started last week, and yesterday I left two books on the table for 1-1/2 periods and Ella 1 for 1 period. Besides this we have a paper on the door on which we write, under our names, all the by-words we128 say. They are mostly "My!" Saturday afternoon I made silhouettes with Miss Turner. We are to meet for composition every Wednesday night. For elocution 2 times a week. All my lessons come so I get through them at quarter past eleven in the morning. Tables have been changed. We sit next the faculty table and sigh for our old table, Miss Palmer, and Evelina. Our girls (we have two) are like blocks of wood and both move as if their life depended upon their taking but one step per minute. We have made another rule here. We take care of the room by weeks. It's Jessie's week now. The girl sweeps etc. twice a week; but the table cloth wants shaking and the plants watering every day. Jessie had lovely plants and they almost died because she didn't attend to them. If they were watered once a week they were lucky. Her long ivy is almost destitute of leaves now. And if any one said129 anything about them, she declared that I froze them by opening the windows. She hasn't said so lately, though, we have said so much to her about neglecting them. Sunday, Feb. 23rd 1879 Lessons. This has resolved itself into a weekly journal. Somehow I don't get time to write in it any except Sundays. Then I am writing all day - this and letters. My evenings are pretty well taken up now, for composition class meets every Wednesday night. Next Wednesday I have to read my composition. Elocution class meets every Monday and Thursday nights. Have met once. I like Miss Poppleton and think I shall enjoy elocution. Like this semester's lessons very much better than last semester's. Jessie's mother and Jonny were here last week. They were130 on their way to N.Y. It isn't long since her father was here. Mrs. Wheeler brought a book illustrated with silhouettes. It has many lovely ones in it. I am going to put two in Ella's album and one on a plate. Miss Turner and I were making them yesterday and are going to make more tomorrow. Jessie's mother also brought her some Coffee, and some sugar, and Jessie bought a coffee-pot down town, and has made coffee twice over the drop-light. Ella don't like it and I seldom drink it, so Jessie invited Misses Angel and Baldwin in. Jessie is very fond of coffee. We have over 25 cts for [finer] and we think of buying a sauce-pan with it. Then we can cook eggs, oysters, etc. and toast crackers. I have been Sick again this week. All day Tuesday and131 Wednesday. I didn't go to classes. I bought some crackers and oranges and breakfasted off them. Ordered one lunch. The rest of the time I went to my meals. Got excused from Chapel today, although feeling pretty well. Hope I shall be well all the time now. I had my bill handed in for the rest of the year. $100.00 for board, $1.00 for meals sent to my room, $3.00 for infirmary charges. That makes me in the infirmary two days whereas I went one morning and came back the next. Had a letter from mother containing one from Nellie [Henrire] from whom I have nto heard for nearly a year. There have been two Deaths at the College. The wife of the engineer, Mrs. Robinson, some time ago. Last week Mr. Forber died. He was overseer of the grounds, and a very nice man. A meeting of the Student's132 Association was called to appoint a comittee to draw up resolutions and arrange about flowers. Dr. Caldwell advised (and very sensibly I thought) that they did not send any great floral gift now, with magnificense and show, but save the tributes of consolation for a time when they would need them more and feel it better. In this meeting, members of the committee had been appointed from all the collegiate classes. When it came to specials, Miss Pass arose and nominated Miss Abbott. A dead silence reigned for a number of minutes. At last one of the seniors took pity and seconded the nomination. Then, when the chairman announced who had been nominated (we could not hear Miss Pass) a titter ran all over the house. The idea! It was so perfectly absurd. Miss Pass was going to make another motion, but Parry pulled her down. They say that133 when Pass heard he was dead she sobbed right out loud, although she did not know who he was nor what position he occupied. I was Summoned to Mrs. Ray yesterday morning. I had no idea what for, but I soon found that it was for various things. In the first place, I had not shown my transfer from Miss Avery's to Mrs. Ray's bible class to them and so they had a whole list of unexcused absenses from bible class, whereas I have beem absent but once. Then there were other things. But those were mistakes and I had to see about them. I shouldn't have blamed Mrs. Ray then if she had been cross; but she was not. When I first came back after vacation, I was summoned to her for being absent from two classes. I did not get back in time for them. She was very cross and asked all manner of questions. Couldn't I get there134 any sooner? If I had come on the boat. How did the other girls from Boston come? Some by cars, some by boat. Who came by boat? Miss Wentworth and Miss Tappen. "Well, I will excuse you, but you must remember that you are required to be back as soon as possible." Said in her most hateful tone; and I was angry. Sunday, Mar. 2nd 1879 The Mc Donald Affair. Last week we were astonished by the announcement that Miss McDonald was married. Her father gave the college the McDonald scholarship fund and made his daughter come here. She hated to come. Had been here three years before and was now a Soph. She was married in the parlor of the Nelson House to a Freshman in Columbia College by name of Spence. She staid here several days after she135 was married, and packed her trunks, pretending that she was going to New York. She has gone somewhere now. Some say that she is expelled. But, at least, she has not been publicly expelled. They say that the fellow's father sent him back to College. Miss Smith, Miss McD's roommate, has gone home - expelled they say. She witnessed the wedding and probably assisted Miss McD. in some other ways. Every body is sorry for Miss Smith. She was very smart, and they say, her parents were poor and denied themselves that she might come here and get a good education. How badly she must feel to go home to them so. Then Miss Jeffords, who would have graduated in the Art Department this year, has gone, nobody knows where or why. But it was nothing to do with the McDonald affair. Some say she is expelled, some say suspended. I heard that Prof. Wan Ingen said it was foolish to expell136 Miss Jeffords for what they did. They kept Misses J. and S. in the Infirmary till they went home. Prof. Backus preached today and as a consequence I came down from Chapel feeling very clever instead of cross. Prof. B. is splendid. He always holds my attention. But I cannot keep my mind on Prexy's sermons. A good many of the girls went into church today. They can go once a month. We have some Curtains in our room. Unbleached [murhir] true med with turkey red and lambrequins of the same. Jessie saw the advertisement on the Students' Bulletin. Room 10. That was unoccupied. But we knew that they belonged to Miss Stevens who formerly roomed there. So we found Miss S. and travelled down and looked at them. Ella and Jessie wouldn't say whether137 to take them or not, and Miss S. left us looking at them. Well we trained around there for some time and Ella found a boot-jack, which we had been wanting. We had one before that Ella had found when hunting for a good ink bottle in the empty rooms. We had hung it up as a bracket and wanted this other to put on the other side opposite. There is a joke about those boot-jacks. Mr. Vassar put them in every room, but didn't have any closets built in the College. To go back to the curtains, we stood around talking and fooling, and laying down on the table for the sake of being slid off. Just before Chapel we decided to bring them to our room and try them, to see if they would fit. But we had to go then to Chapel and immediately after to Corridor-meeting. I was the only one deficient, and had to stay after it was over to tell Miss Hubbard. The girls ran off without me. I had lots of deficien138 -cies and I hurried to get a chance to tell them. "The 18th and 19th, all College duties. The 20th, 21st, 22nd, exercise. The 23rd, Chapel. The 24th, exercise." Said I very slowly so Miss H. could write it. "Good-ness!" exclaimed Miss Howe. Then I ran after the girls. They were in Hattie's room. We came on a run down the corridor; baring the curtains in triumph. We couldn't hang them in our room, as the hooks were too far apart. We took out a screw eye and put it in so it would go on the hooks. But the curtains pulled the cornice over up-side down in a remarkable manner. Finally we broke the screw-eye. Then we discovered why the cornice hung over so. It was because the hooks were so long that the ends of the cornice didn't touch the wall. Then we ran to the Janitor two or three times a day for two or three days, and at last they were fixed. They improve the appearance of the room very much. But we sent by139 Jessie to town to get ribbon to tie them back, and she got it about an inch wide! Reading Composition. I read my Composition on "Favorite Characters in Fiction." Miss Woods wants me to write poetry next time. Can I ever? We had a Lecture Thursday night. Mr. J. T. Field of Boston. His subject was Alfred [Tenneson]. It was very nice, although different from what I expected. The north side of the Chapel was cleared for visitors and the Preps were requested to sit in the Gallery. I sat there with Jessie. They couldn't let the doors be open and the scholars go in peaceably. But Mrs. Johns stood by the door and kept us out till the bell rung. Then in they all were borne with a rush. Mrs. J. was very angry and reported to Mrs. Ray, who gave the Preps a lecture upon politeness next day.140 We thought that she might learn a lesson in it herself. This is why. At dinner often announcements are made. Some by Mrs. Ray and some by Miss Nichols. "Her Royal Highness" takes her bell and notices, walks a few steps toward the centre of the hall, strikes her bell twice and reads her notices. Miss Nichols gets up and reads here, and, while she is reading, Mrs. Ray calmly walks back to her seat. Sunday, Feb 9th 1879 Class Flower. Miss Semple proposed that, as we had no class color, we should chose a class flower. She proposed that we chose the Marsh ney rose bud. Afterwards it was objected to because it was a hot-house flower and not hardy. So the pansy was chosen. We were requested to hand in our preferences, who we desired to take to the Freshman party. My first choice was Miss McFadden. As I had no second choice141 I thought I would put down Miss Jones, who knows somebody that I know. Miss Sherman used to come down here every day at the tenth period to study French with Miss Irving. One day when she was here Miss Hubbard came in to speak to Jessie and saw her. She went out and asked if the bell for the end of study hour had rung. Then she came back and asked her about it. We have been Drawing Leaves for Botany. Auntie Haskell gave us descriptions of six leaves, and we were to draw them and name them. Miss Vernes came down and we put our heads together over them and had a good deal of fun. I like Miss Varnes very much. Didn't know her very well till lately. Now she Jessie and I study Greek together everyday.142 Mrs. Richards. Friday morning as I was going into breakfast, I heard someody speak to me in the crowd. Turning I saw Mrs. Richards. She is a graduate of Vassar. Entered the Junior year. She is secretary of the Alumnae of Vassar of Boston. One of those interested in having Vassar examinations in Boston. She is lovely. She married Prof. Richards of the Institute. Of course I was delighted to see her and she said she hoped to see me to speak to me. So in the afternoon the messenger girl came and said that Mrs. Richards would be in ROom 48 till 2.30 p m and would be glad to see me if I was at leisure. I had a very pleasant call. It was so nice to see some body I knew. We are having a Strike. Lately the food has been very much poorer than before. Also the butter has been unclean. There was a meeting of the students Association and a complaint made143 and a committee of four were appointed to remedy matters. Miss Hays was chairman of the comittee. Last night it was called again and the comittee said that Prexy said it was to Mrs. Ray they should go. So they read a letter that they had written to Mrs. Ray. It was objected to as being to strong and unbusiness like. Then followed 3/4 hour of wrangling and nothing was accomplished. I think the letter was too strong. We could get on very well if things were perfectly clean. But it make me mad to see better things go onto the faculty table. Miss [Wardle] said that she had spoken to Mrs. Ray about things and Mrs. R. said that she thought things were very good. "And well she may," said Miss Wardle, "for the morning we had cold meat, they had beef-steak. And when we had corned-beef and cabbage and dried peach pie, they had orange and raw oysters." I think something will be done about it, as the girls are much in earnest.144 Sunday, Feb. 16th 1879. Gossip They say that the father of the fellow Miss McDonald married is in business with Mr. McD. and that the family are reconciled. Perhaps they wouldn't have cared at all if they hadn't taken that way to do it and if the fellow had not been so young, only 18. But enough of that. I think the fare improved although a Speech which Prexy made in chapel seemed to indicate that the petition would amount to nothing. This is what the speech said. It wasn't in just such words put [it] insinuated it. You are young and foolish. We are wise and in authority over you. Your grievance is all imaginary. You have taken a very weak and ineffectual way to redress yourselves. It was quite long but that's all it amounted to. I'd like to know what145 Prex. knows about our food anyway. Before he got his rooms arranged he used to sit at the faculty table. And very different food comes onto that table from what comes onto ours. I detest Prex. anyway. I am thankful I got excused from Chapel today, as he preached I think. Dr. Webster is lovely. She will excuse me from anything I like, no matter whether I'm sick or not. I suppose she thinks I'm delicate and need care. I was sick so much after Christmas. Now I must tell about the Freshman Party. That came off last night. The Society Hall looked lovely. Mrs. Ray wouldn't let them take over every thing they wanted. She was going to restrict them a great deal at first, but finally let them have nearly as much as they needed. Miss [Forse] was very cute146 about it. She made out a list so that it looked small. As follows - - largr [sic] pictures. - sofas. Small tables and chairs. The latter of course meant multitudes of small tables and pretty chairs. "Is this all you want?" asked Mrs. Ray. "No, Mrs. Ray," said Miss [Forse], "This is only what we absolutely need." "Very well. Bring me the list of what you want and [then came in the authority Prex talked about] I will cut it down." She restricted the nos. of [Miss Sanford] tabels and pictures and would allow no foot-stools. Never-the-less, the Hall looked very pretty. Next, as to the time. Mrs. Ray would allow us to stay till 10 min. before 10. We staid till half past ten. Prexy and his wife, Miss Palmer, and Mrs. Ray, Freshman teachers, were there. I took Miss [Jouer] of Boston. Mr. Battles knows some of her folks. Liked her very well. She was talkative or I fear I shouldn't have gotten on very well. For I never have anything to say147 to strangers. I had on a light shawl and she made me take one of hers to put around me, for fear I would be cold. At the door of the hall we were presented with a pansy and a rose from baskets full. The rose is the Junior's class flower. Also very pretty programs which Misses Perkins and Nickerson discovered were printed in "Bosting." There were songs and dancing. Not very much of either. Miss Jouer danced and I did not. Once I tried to get her a partner but did not succeed. For refreshments we had fried oysters, chicken salad, coffee, sandwiches, oranges. The class history and prophecy were read. Miss Semple was historian, Miss Lyon, prophet. The prophecy was just splendid. I think it will be printed. We've gotten An Ink bottle. Not but what we've had one all along. The one we had had no lid and the ink evaporated. So the girls hunted in all the empty rooms for a good one with a148 good glass stopper. One night Jessie and I went to call on Miss McFadden. Lo and behold, there was one of those [squee] ink bottles. "Oh, Miss McFadden, you've gotten one of those elegant ink bottles. Ella and Jessie hunted in all the empty rooms for one." "You may have that one." Could I believe it? Being assured, I took it, when Miss McF. informed me that it couldn't be opened. J. (I call Jessie J. half the time) said hot water would open it. "Well, if you can open it you can have it." So we took it, opened it. The mouth had a piece broken out of it, but we put it on with [mucilage] and it sticks fast. So we rejoice in our inkbottle and good ink and use the other for a pen holder. More Botany. We have begun to analyze flowers a little. I like it pretty well. We have to draw the flowers. Auntie Haskell told us to get a block and have to [sic] holes punched in it and put a ribbon through so as149 to hold it together, and draw our flower in that I got one and put a cover on the top which makes it very nice. Then I decorated it with pictures of flowers. I love to draw them. I made Ella a similar one for rhetoric. We got quite a lot of Table money as we call fines. So one day on the impulse of the moment we sent J. out to spend it for peanuts and caramels. We had a good feast on them. Now to get money faster we charge for books left on the chairs and floor. But we don't get much. Sometimes quite laughable incidents occur. One day I left my drawer containing about a dozen books on the table for nearly 20 min. I thought of it just in time or I'd had lots to pay. We bought a tin pail with a part of our money. We've been intending to get something to cook in it over our gas lamp but have not as yet. One day I left a book on the table and thought150 J. did it. J. went out and I began to rejoice with Ella that J. had left it there. When I found out it had been there half a period. At first I said that I wouldn't pay as I should have taken it off before 20 min. if I had known. But afterwards I did pay because, if any of the others should leave one on under the same circumstance, even if they would not have taken it off before the half period, they would not pay on the ground that I did not. "A poor policy to pay debts on" said Ella. One day Miss Varnes and Jessie found a Gray Hair in my head. There it is as plain as day. I won't have it pulled out. Monday, Mar. 17th 1879 Printing the Prophecy, etc. A class meeting was called tonight. We went for our napkins, two of which we had contributed for the party, after it.151 We each took one of the remaining fresh pansies given to the Juniors for a kupcake. There were 14 forks and 12 knives reported as missing from the stewards department. The question was asked whether any one had taken any from the hall. As no one had it was concluded that there was some mistake. It was moved that the prophecy, history, and welcome to the Juniors be printed and a committee to attend to it was appointed. I ordered two copies. One for J. and one for myself. Sunday, Mar. 23rd 1879. Jessie's Latin. When J. first came here she was put into Prep. Latin "for a while." But time past by and still she was not promoted. Not long ago Miss Miller, her Latin teacher, gave full consent for her to go into Horace. She went to Miss Morse and Miss Miller went to her, and it did no good.152 Miss Morse said she could not promote J. when she had such marks. But finally they discovered that J.F. Wheeler's marks were mixed with E J.'s and that put altogether a different face on the matter. So J. is put into Horace, although she is to keep on with Virgil for a while. It is nice for we study together. Last night we left our Light burning. I expected the other girls would put it out, and they expected I would. I had turned my light way down so it burned just a little and way just going to take off my shoes, when I heard a knock. I knew it was Mother Hubbard and, thinking she would turn out the gas and see the glimmer of mine. So I piled onto the bed and turned it out and began to take off my shoes softly. She went and I lay awhile and then got up to open my window and saw the parlor light glimmer153 through a crack of my door. So I came out and turned it off. She had put it down some. I wished I had left it burning. We all heard her when she knocked and none of us said "Come." I expected she would say something about it today; but she did not. There was a Concert Friday evening in the Chapel. Miss Hubbard and Miss [Bliss] played. I did not go. We have Eleocution every Tuesday and Friday at the sixth period, the first after lunch. I forgot to go to it Tuesday and once before. There is a Dancing class here every Saturday. Jessie and Ella take lessons and Miss Owen comes in very often between dinner and chapel to practice with them. I try it too. I want to learn to waltz. One night we sat around in the moon-light after the last bell and154 some our proposed dancing. So we danced a good while in our stocking feet. It was great fun. I did not go to the Chapel today. That makes three Sundays in succession. I did not take my exercise either. Just went out about 5 minutes. I have a cold. But very often I have no excuse but lazyness for staying away from Chapel. Sunday, Mar. 30th 1879. Lectures. There were lectures in Chapel Friday and Saturday nights by the Rev. Mr. Spaulding of Boston. They were illustrated by the [stereoptican]. Friday his subject was St. Peters. Saturday, Ancient and Mondern Art. They were very nice. Friday the Preps. were requested to take seats in the Gallery that the north side of Chapel might be clear for town-folks. The other students were requested to take the same seats that they usually occupied. I could not see very well155 from where I sat so I went up into the gallery with Jessie. Saturday night we were requested to take the same seats we had Friday. I did not go to the Chapel for three Sundays, so I went today for a change. We are having showery and cloudy weather. But between the showers its lovely. We left our Light (and other misdemenors) up again last night by the same misunderstanding. I didn't hear any last bell. I was nearly alseap [sic] when I heard Miss H. knock and try the door, which was locked. I came out and unlocked the door; but she had gone. So I turned off the gas and went to bed. She hasn't said anything about it yet. But she didnt about the other till sometime this week, when Kitty Angell changed seats with me at the table. I sat next Miss Hubbard and she asked about it. I don't she is at all nice about such things she peeks around and listens to every word the girls say [sic]. One day Miss E.J.'s parlor told about laughing after the lights were out the night before, just to see what Miss H.156 would do. She called Miss Baldwin to account for it and asked her if they were up after the lights were out. I don't think she has any right to do that. She is a great fuss any way. One day Kitty A. and J. changed seats at the table and she talked to them aboout it. The idea! At Miss Palmer's table we used to change paces as much as we wished. I used to think Miss H. was nice. I've gotten bravely over it. I spattered a plate yesterday and Miss Turner made silhouettes. I have been reading Daisy Miler. It is a strange book and I hardly know what to make of it. She was a queer girl. The form of expression and words in it are exactly the same as American school-girls use when talking among temselves. I never saw them in print before and I do not like them at all. I wish I didnot use them. I think I will try to break myself of them.157 Sunday, Apr. 6th 1879 My Birthday. I found the first dandelion blossom last Wednesday. Jessie has not been very well this week and went home for Thursday, Friday, and a part of Saturday. Her sister was sick. She is not going home in vacation. Friday was my 18th birthday. It seemed queer to have a birthday away from home. Last year Helen and Alice and Miss C. spent it with me. I haven't slept very well for two or three days, and today am about sick. Am excused from College duties. I lazed around in my wrapper all the morning till nearly dinner time. Just as I was going to dress for dinner there came a knock and somebody came in whom I did not know. It was Miss Gardiner, whom I met some time ago at Franklin. I was glad to see her and had a very pleasant call. She invited me to come over to the observatory and call on her this evening and bring some of my friends. I guess I shall.158 When the dinner bell rang today we all went up to dinner and found everybody collected in the hall before the dining hall or standing on the stairs and gazing in wonderment. Then there was a report that dinner would not be ready for 15 min. So we dispersed and in 15 min. the bell again rang. We were glad to find that we had an extra good dinner. Rice pudding and oranges both for desert. Did you ever hear of such generosity? Wednesday, Apr. 9th '79 A Night Ramble. Sunday evening J. and I went to call at the Observatory. It was a beautiful night out and when we came back we looked into our room we concluded Ella was at Crego's and went in and propsed to them that we should go out of doors. So Crego threw her things out of the window that Miss Shier might not know and we scud. We knocked at Miss Owen's159 window and she came out of it. We looked in at Miss Booth's window and saw a very affecting tableau - Hattie sitting in Miss [Akens] lap. We ran around the garden and sat in one of the arbors a while. Saw two strolling figures and ran from tree to tree across the lawn, stealthily dodging them. It was great fun. Got in safely. Jessie is making us some memory cards. I have not acted very badly about going home this time. Monday I couldn't keep still long. I was dreadfully Cheated Monday. We had just come in from Botany and J., Miss Vernes, and I were beginning to study Homer. There was a knock and the messenger girl announced that Mrs. Eaton was in the parlor and wished to see me. "Who?" "Mrs. Eaton." Then I gave a scream. It came like a flash. Mrs. E. and Nellie were visiting at Yonkers and had come up. I hurried to wash my hands, for the were black with160 pencil-sharpenings, and rushed away to the parlor. I entered the first. No one there but a lady in black that I had never seen. No one in the second. With a sinking heart I entered the Students Parlor. No one there. Slowly I came back. I went to the messenger-room. It was a the lady in black, Mrs. Swain said. Feeling sure of some mistake I went to her. It was Miss Eaton to see Mary Sanford. It was a horried disappointment. Today Misses Owen, Reynolds, Wheeler, Irving, and I went to the Gym to Dance. J. got permission of Miss Palmer and we got a man to light it and we had a "squee" time. J. and I went into the Store this afternoon. I got permission of Mrs. Ray. The man didn't ask to see my permit, so I kept it to myself and will go in on it another time. J. went in with me to get something and afterwards I escorted Miss Greenway in on the same161 pass. J. is going to use it in vacation. Now I will close till after vacation. Miss Hubbard was just here to see about our light. But I told her that I couldn't possibly get my work out of the way yet. Saturday, Apr. 26th 1879. Back Again. Well, spring vacation is over and I am back. I've been ever so homesick since I came back. I had a splendid time home. It rained nearly every day and I was sick abed one day. We had company every day but two. Cassie had quilting and I had a surprise party Saturday night. Helen and Al were home part of the time so I saw them. We are building a house on the old place at home. Eight whole weeks. I sigh for summer. I Came back late. Didn't get here till Tuesday noon and I ought to have been here Sunday night. Went to Mrs. Ray about it. Gave162 as excuse sickness, etc. Mrs. Ray was real nice. She said it was customary to bring excuses from home. So I said I would send for one. I Went up town today for a change. Have never been but once. Jessie and I walked in by College Avenue and rode out as far as Bull's Head. I am fearfully tired tonight. We've been in Miss Haskell's room to see about Botany. We've been analyzing maple and elm blossoms for class work. We've analyzed two out of the class. I don't know just how many we've gotten to analyze. From 75 to 100, I guess. Last night Ella bought some Eggs in the store and cooked some of them over the drop light. She is going to cook some more there tonight.163 Friday, May 2nd 1879 It is Founder's Day. Vassar's great day. The halls are trimmed up with evergreen and there is a stir throughout. After the festivities of the day are over, I will write about it. Every day or two it was announced that there would be a final oportunity for purchasing invitations for founder's Day. At last Jessie bought a complementary invitation for it. Then she was afraid to send it lest he should come. So she did not send it till yesterday. I have been Sick this week. Sunday, Monday, and Tuesday. I got my excuse for being late. I forgot to go to Elocution again yesterday, but Miss Popleton did not call the roll. We are to be prepared to recite a piece Tuesday. Thursday we all meet together and have invited the Juniors to come and hear164 us. As Miss Harder said, "Seventeen idiotic girl voted for it." I only hope she won't call on me. Saturday, May 3rd 1879. Founder's Day. Now and then we would see one of the fellows that were coming around in the grounds with the girls. Just enough to keep up the excitement. At 5 min of 8 we assembled in Chapel. All those who did have company sat in the gallery. Below were the girls with their company. In the back seats, below were the hostaces [sic] and ushers. It was a pretty sight. Mist of the girls had new dresses for the occasion, light silks, cashmeres, and muslins, and they looked so pretty. Nearly everybody wore wite kids. The exercises were very nice. A Miss Stevens, formerly of the College played beautifully. There was a discussion - "The Critical Spirit of the Age - Should it be checked?" Affirmative, Miss Colgate. Negative - Miss Bustin.165 Miss Burstin was splendid. I could see how she had profited by her elocution. Her pronunciation was just right. She used her voice well. Her movements and gestures were easy and natural. Her poise was perfect. After the exercises in Chapel, the [sic] was a collation sewed in the dining-room. Jessie and I wandered around in the hall for a while till the thickest of the crowd was gone, then we went in. We were waiting to be served, when along came Matthew Vassar. "Have you been served?" he asked. Upon our replying in the negative, he rushed away edging his way through the crowd. Soon he came back with a plate of cream in each hand. Then away he went to wait upon the others. After the collation there was music and promenading till the dinig hall waas cleared for dancing and we all went there. There were four square dances on the program, but in the middle of the last the bell struck and the music stopped and the goodbyes soon began to be said. I166 had a real nice time. We went through the Pres. parlors, which were thrown open. They were very pretty and oh that library! it did look luxurious. I really think, however that I never saw such a slim looking set of fellows. The most of the them seemed so young, green, $ and insignificant. There was a Jap with Miss Nagai that was the homeliest specimin of Japanity I ever saw. But he look [sic] nice and was probably good and smart. We got to bed about 12.30 P.M. and were quite fresh this morning. The girls are crazy over Cards. J. and Ella have been playing cards ever since Thursday night. Tonight Misses Varnes, Brewster and Easton were in to play Eucre with J. This week I have been reading Poe. His prose tales are wierd. I am now reading his biography (a short one) and I like it ever so much. I mean to read the life of CharlotteBronte as soon as I have time. Sunday, May 4th, 1879. The Mud Turtle. I went to Chapel today for a wonder. Service wasn't long and I got along very well. It was beautiful out of doors today. Jessie and I went just over the red fence today and picked some wild flowers. We saw two large mud-turtles and that reminds me that Miss Turner picked up a little bit of a turtle, that she saw, and is going to keep it and tame it to make a pet of it. It is a real cute little thing. Saturday, May. 19. 1879. Miss E.J.'s Fish Dr. Webster has gotten back. It seems so good to see her. Miss E.J. caught a trout nearly a foot long. A lovely great fellow. I think he must have come down the stream from somewhere as there are no such fish usually in the lake. He168 was trying to swallow a smaller fish and was choking. Miss E.J. saw him and drew him up to the shore by a stick and caught him by the tail. She gave him to Dr. Webster. Miss E.J. also caught a polywog, which she keeps in a jar. She is going to keep him till his legs grow and his tail drops off. We have a Cat in our room. She came in first Friday. I gave her some milk I had. The poor thing was almost starved. She has been here every day since. We brought some things from the table for her Saturday. Today she has lived on Crackers. This is the way we happened to have the crackers. We were all sitting here and Miss Owen was in here, when suddenly there was a knock and Miss Levick came in with a plate of them. She said she had them and thought she would bring them in for us. She told us to keep169 the plate and laughed as she went back into Miss Pass' room. We were thunder-struck and suspected something was up. "Don't eat them girls," said Ella, "something is the matter with them." So we thought we'd try to find out what. We couldn't discover anything although we thought they didn't smell just right. So when we went to Chapel (which was put off till 9 P.M., because the Phil. had gone out riding immediately after dinner.) Ella and J. ran up to them and cried, "Girls, what on earth did you do to those crackers." Continuing in that strain Ella found out that the girls there were hungry, so Miss Shier went to Mrs. Keizer for something. She gave her the crackers. They tried them and they didn't taste right and they couldn't eat them. So they thought they would bring them in to us. This morning Ella told Miss Levick that we did not eat any of the them. I had Gorgie to supper with me Friday. J. and I went to [Exoteric] tonight.170 Miss Silver's Botany. Miss Silver had analyzed a lot of flowers at different times, but had neither put down the common name or the proper name and so she couldn't tell what they were. I should have thought she could have told some of them at any rate. Or could have found them by running through the table in her book. But she couldn't, so she threw them all away. It was too bad. And it was a funny thing to do. I must tell about Elocution. Some of the Freshmen voted to have the Juniors come to a reading because Miss Poppleton wanted them to. I think none wanted the Juniors to come. Never-the-less hateful things were said by both Sophs and Juniors. It was said that the Fresh were conceited to give a reading to the Juniors. Well, a class meeting was called and, on account of what was said, Miss Baldwin proposed that we should all after having laid the plan before Miss Poppleton assemble on Friday head171 -ed by a marshal march two by two to room J, each one clad from head to foot in black. Some desired very much to do this. Others were hot against it. Miss Howe and the Misses Glen spoke nicely against it. They held that it would be an insult to Miss P. and a price of great folly which would render us the laughing stock of all the College. Miss [Foor] said that she had heard that were were [sic] conceited to give a reading to the Juniors and she thought that wearing black would prove we were not. Miss Howe said that she never before knew that wearing black proved that one was not conceited. And she afterwards added that she believed black was considered the most becoming thing one could were [sic], and it might prove a conceit of a different nature to desire to appear in our most becoming dresses. Miss Foor answered. Then Miss Howe, and soon. I believe Miss Foor had the last word but assuredly Miss Howe had the best of it. Miss Glen, younger, said that she was172 afraid that some of the young ladies would have to borrow dresses; and some of the young ladies were very adverse to borrowing dresses. Miss Foor said that borrowed clothes had been worn on occasions much less than this and it would not hurt them to wear them then. And Miss Glenn, elder, whispered indignantly, "Calls Phil less than this!" Altogether it was very simple I think. At last a vote was taken and it was decided that we should not go in black, etc. The eventful Friday came and no one was killed. I did not have to read. Today part of the Botany classes went on an Excursion. to Mr Boardmans about 3 miles from here. We took our Botany boxes and picked flowers on the way. Oh, what a profusion of beautiful great blue violets we found. Mr. Parker, who is superintendent of Mr. Boardman's grounds, used to be gardiner at the College. He is a graduate of Amherst agricultural College and quite173 a scientific man. Mr. Boardman gave us permission to go anywhere we pleased over the grounds and to pick any flowers except fern and one or two things. We went down to a little valley. Hills completely shut it in, and rough, jagged, picturesque rocks, covered with mosses bounded it. In the dearest little nooks and corners of the rocks grew delicate firns and columbine. It was lovely. There was a lake in the centre and near by a fountain. The wind blew the spray quite a distance and we stood and showered our posies and ourselves. We went round to a spring that was 10 ft. deep in the centre and beautiful. The water was deep green, probably from the [confervae] that had settled on the leaves in the bottom, and it was as clear as a crystal. So it looked like an immense great emerald. We then climbed the ridge and rested ourselves on the rustic seats everywhere, in the woods and ate the lunch Bertha Ray brought. Then we sat a while in the summer house and Mr. Boardman wanted us174 to have a drink of milk, so he sent some up to us. We then started for home. We were somewhat fatigued on our arrival, but had enjoyed our excursion very much. Miss E.J. has two more Turtles. Very small ones. Not more than an inch across the back. They are the cunningest little things I ever saw. Soon they will have quite a menagerie. Sunday. May 18th 1879. Going to Town before Silent Time. Yesterday J. and I started for town before Silent Time, which is forbidden. We had just gotten out onto the street when we met Miss Murphy coming back and behind her two horse-cars were approaching. She said that these were to take the excursion to West Point, and as Mrs. Ray and many of the teachers were going, she did not think it expedient for the cars to pass her on her way175 to town before Silent Time. We were not going back, but we were afraid if we went the straight road we would be passed and if we went College Avenue we wouldn't get out of sight before the cars came along. For College Ave is straight and flat. So we slipped over the wall and behind the hedge, where we knew we would be out of sight, intending to go under shelter of the hedge to the end of the grounds and wait till the cars had passed us and disappeared around the bend. But the cars had but just started when we reached the end of the grounds. As there was one more way we took that. We got over the wall and started on an old, little travelled street, which had several little hills so we would be soon out of sight. When we were behind the hills we heard the jingle of the car bells and when we came to turn onto Main Street we saw them disappearing in the distance. In Chapel last night there was no one to lead the176 service. All those accustomed to do it were away. There was a long pause and a broad smile on everybody's face. Finally Miss Palmer went up and conducted them. Sunday, May 25th 1879. Over the River. Yesterday we went botanizing over the river. We had a real pleasant tramp, and saw a perfectly lovely stream, and got lots of maiden's hair. The Juniors took the Seniors on an excursion. Excursion. They always do. They went to Catskill, in the Mary Powell. Prof. Hinkle said nothing would be good enough for them next year. He didn't know what they would do unless they chartered a steamer and went to Europe. "Or went up in a balloon," said Miss Miller.177 Sunday, June 1st 1879 Summer has come in with heat enough to kill one. We have been longing for a breath of cool air all day long. It has been too hot to do anything. I read in the reading-room till the words were blurred, then I came down and tried to go to sleep. I have written but one letter today. Went to Chapel today. We have been having quite a time about our Cat. Ella went to Mrs. Ray as the latter wished to see all who were not coming back next year. Mrs. Ray said that she had been wishing to see some one from our parlor for some time. Then she spoke about there being too much noise in our parlor especially in Silent time. Also there was too much running in the halls. "And then that cat." We must not bring things from the table for it as it was against the rule, and we must not keep it. It was a nuisance to the whole corridor. The whole178 corridor meant Kit Murphy who is very hard on our poor Pussy. We have ceased to bring milk from the table to her, but we buy milk at the farm house and are determined to keep her as long as possible. When we don't want her longer they will take her at the farm house. We don't know whether Miss Hubbard or Kit Murphy went to Mrs. Ray. If the latter I think she was mean. If the former I think she too was mean not to speak to us about it first. And then about the noise. We are not any noisier than the rest of the rooms. And if you could hear the girls up on the fourth tell! Since then we heard that Kit Murphy said the noisiest room in College was on this corridor. If so, that was utterly false. And she needn't talk about noise; for every night we used to hear them talking after the last bell. We have been thoroughly indignant ever since Mrs. Ray spoke. A few nights before, however, we are willing to acknowledge that there was a dreadful noise in our room after last179 bell. Ella had thrown something into J's room and then locked herself into her own and J. pounded at a perfectly fearful rate on Ella's door. But other wise we are not noisy. Ella went to see Pinafore played in Poughkeepsie yesterday. I stayed at home like a good girl and studied. I read the play today in a book belonging to Miss Pass. We have now agreed to call our cat Buttercup, as a very appropriate name for her. I wanted her called that before; but they would not agree to it till now. Sunday, June 8th 1879 Weather. I didn't go to the Chapel today. Two weeks from today I am going to be at home. I shall not stay to Commencement. I never saw such weather. One day we roast. Then we freeze for a few days. Then180 we will roast again. Now it is a freezing time. This week I wrote to Miss Stevens. She was examined in Boston when I was. She is going to join the next Freshman class. She answered my letter and I wrote again today. We had our Elections yesterday. Misses Britton, Shove, and Stanton were candidates for President. Miss Shove withdrew, so I voted for Stanton. We ballotted 11 times and were no near the end then when we begun. So the names were dropped, and Miss Lyon nominated Miss Yamakawa. I don't think there would have been another nominated, if Stematz herself had not nominated Miss Shove. If almost anyone else had been running against Miss Shove, she would have gotten it. As it was, Stematz got it first ballot. She is very popular. Perhaps partly because she is a Jap. At any rate she ought to be popular, for she is so nice.181 Misses Howe and Semple were candidates for vice-president. We ballotted 10 times. Then those names were dropped. Misses Laurence, Lyon, and [Havker] were nominated. I voted for Laurence. Miss Lyon got it. Misses Taylor and Grose were candidates for secretary. I voted for Gross but Taylor got it at 3 ballots. Misses Mohn and Howgate were candates [sic] for treasurer. I voted for Mohn, but Howgate got it at second ballot. No one cared much which way these last went. There are two parties in our class. These mingle partly in times of peace, but, in elections, they are clearly divided. Then there are a few that flucuate between the two sides. All this year Laura Glenn has been director of the Glee Club and has done real well with it. But now we have Miss Fridenburg in our class and she is one of the best musicians in College. When time for the nominations came, no one thought of her and so Miss Howe nominated Miss Glenn, thinking there was no one else. There were no further nominations.182 Afterwards the girls thought that Miss Fridenburg ought to have it as she was the better musician and Miss Glenn had it so long. So a class meeting was called for nominating Miss F. second candidate. At that meeting, however, Miss Glenn withdrew her name and Miss Fridenburg was nominated. There were no further nominations. Last ngiht I went to an Exoteric hall play, "School." It was very nice indeed. Friday night went to an Art Lecture by Prof. Van Ingen which was quite nice. Last week went to a Phil Play. "The Cricket on the Hearth." It was just splendid, as indeed the plays always are. Our Cat still lives with us and we hear no more about it. Once in a while we buy her milk; but she mostly lives on mice and squirrels which she catches.183 Sunday, June 15th 1879. Latin. Oh, how good it seems to think that this is the last Sunday. I guess next week won't be very hard for we have examinations in Botany only. We were to have them in Latin every day. That would have been dreadful. Thursday a class meeting was called; but we did not have one, for we heard that it was not allowable to have class-meeting on such a subject. So we talked together and finally it was decided to send Misses [Shawe] and Sanford to Miss Goodwin to see if we could not have advance instead. She liked the idea and promised to see Prof. Hinkel about it. So we are to have no more examinations in that. Then in Greek, our class sent a petition to Prof. Hinkle, that we might be allowed to take advance in Homer instead of review.184 But he would let us do nothing but read [Anabaris] or review Homer. So we are reading the third book of [Anabaris]. Yeserday was the Senior's Sale. I [sic] very great variety of somewhat delapidated things filled the corridor, and eloquent Senior's expounded the merits of their goods. Very many rocking chairs, and small tables, sofas etc. Not so many small things as I expected. I bought a small bust of Dickens for 50 cts. and a small table for $1.00. The cover for the table had the initials [SN] on it. Sophia Nichols. Change it around and you have [Nan] Southworth. Yesterday I also bought [paster] for trunk. As I go by boat I can't buy ticket and check trunck till the day I go. Ella went down town yesterday. She and Miss Reynolds bought Strawberries Strawberries and those with fruit crackers and185 oranges made quite a feast. J. and I were invited and enjoyed it. We have only had strawberries two or three times at table, and then they were stale. We haven't had a green pea or new potato yet. Sept. 19th 1879. Soph. Year. Here I am, back again. I suppose most the girls will come today as College opens tonight. I arrived yesterday at noon. I came to N.Y. City by the [Stonington] boat, and it was so crowded that I could not get even a berth and had to lay on a blanket on the floor, in consequence of which I caught cold. In the morning I saw Dr. Webster. Her sister and little niece were with her. The niece was born at the College. Her name is Helen Vassar. Helen for Dr. Webster and Vassar for the186 College. They were coming here by the night boat. I came by day boat. The first person I saw was Miss Pass in the horse-car. When I got to the College, I met Miss Miller and Miss Hubbard, the former is to be our Corridor teacher. She told me to get something to eat and then go to Mrs. Ray. Mrs. Ray said she thought she would put two new Freshmen in my parlor. Not long after Miss [Winnie] Welliams was sent there. She enters the first preparatory. I heard that Mrs. Ray wasn't going to let Preps and Collegiates room together. Miss Williams seems very nice. There is a nice Freshman next door, Miss Miller. She is from Kentucky. Miss Brown's sister, who was examined at Boston when I was, is here. She is nice. She has a nice Alcove room and a very pleasant room-mate, Miss Newman. Miss Newman reminds me very much of Abbie Nickerson. She was at dinner when I was and said she saw me on187 the boat. Miss Sanford is here and the Misses Glenn, but I did not speak with the latter. I have seen no more of the old girls. There is a girl from Montreal, Canada. A regular little Britisher, Miss Williams said. I wish Jessie would come. Sunday, Sept. 21st 1879. News. I had two letters from Jessie. She is sick now but expects to return Tuesday. She is to the room in 131, Fifth North, all alone. That is what she wanted. Miss Turner is not coming back. Neither are Misses Wheeler, E.J., and Silver Evelyn Baldwin and Cassie MacAdam room in No. 5. near here. Misses Yamakawa and Nagai are not back yet; but are coming, I suppose. There is a new girl here in [b]. Miss Ella [Seetuth] from Normal, Ill. She is going to be Freshman. She is188 a little thing and seems very nice. Most of the old girls are back. Misses Shier and Owen haven't made their appearance. Ella has a friend here. She graduated this year from Lewisburg and comes as an Art Student. Miss Osterhout is her name. This year I study Latin, Eng. Lit. and Trig. Have them the first, second and fifth periods, so I get all through before lunch, which is nice. Sept. 28th Sunday. Our Room. Yesterday we girls went to town. Miss [Suelluth] bought a lovely panel picture. She has a little rocking-chair, too. Miss Williams had a box from home yesterday. She had a lovely table cloth, a clock and bracket, a picture and vase. We have a real pretty room now. I think Mrs. Ray is as horrid as ever. There are some very tall grasses in the garden that189 the gardiner gives away. Jessie asked him if she might have some and he said yes, as many as she wanted. So she got some for herself and some for me. As she was bringing them in, Mrs. Ray met her and asked her where she got them and who gave them to her, and said there must be some mistake. Jessie said no, the gardiner gave them to the girls and Mrs. R. said he shouldn't and there must be some mistake. Her royal highness knows everything. I think if the gardiner is not a responsible person he ought to be dismissed. But it is all right. Those grasses don't belong to anybody and the gardiner gives them away. I have quite a lot of Bitter-sweet berries. Miss Warder had her arms full and I was admiring them, so, after she had supplied her friends she brought me a lot. It is lovely. We went to see if we could get some more,190 but were unsuccessful. We have been seated at the tables. Haven't had Bible Class. Sunday, Oct. 12. 1879. Sick. Last Sunday I was sick and, stayed at home from Chapel and Bible Class and Monday from all classes. Sunday night I made tea over the gas. Last night we had a Chestnut Roast. Sent to town for a tin pan and set it over the gas full of chestnuts and roasted them so. Then we borrowed a drop light and put it in the bed-room and boiled nuts in a pail over that. Then we had cider and apples. May and I went for the cider in the morning. Jessie and I went to the store between dinner and Chapel for the apples. And such lots of girls were there, from Seniors to Preps. We invited the girls in the next room. In the midst of festiv-191 -ities, I heard someone come and go away again. I thought it must be Miss Yamakawa. I should have invited her; but I knew she was going on an excursion with Prof. Backus and I didn't know when they would be back. I went out and called Stematz back and she came in and had some chestnuts. When she went back to her room I told her to tell Miss Nagai to come. She came and by and by Stematz came to. So we feasted and told riddles until Silent Time. As the bell rang I hurried to take off the last roast. Every time before I had turned the gas down low. But in my hurry I forgot it, and the paper caught fire. I threw it onto the carpet and in desperation we stamped upon it and stamped it out. We had a real nice time, anyway. I have been to Delta twice. Last Friday and the week before.192 Ella [Vaener] played once. It was nice. I am going to join delta. For the Soph Party they have collected the tax of both semesters. Some of the class did not think we ought to spend it all for that, but they were over-ruled. We couldn't do anything else. For Mrs. Ray won't let the [cars] fix up the Society Hall; and for an entertainment out of the hall things cost. We've been having dreadfully hot weather. Sunday, Oct. 19. 1879 Senior Parlor. Last Thursday, the Seniors invited the Sophs to the Senior Parlor between dinner and chapel. We were dismissed from dinner at 5.30. I went with Miss Olmstead. We went directly to the parlor and looked around. It was lovely. The furniture was upholstered with dark green covered with193 peacock feathers. One chair was deep wine color and had a white strip running through the center, on which was embroidered cat-tails and their leaves. Miss Wentworth designed and embroidered it. It was lovely. The girls did almost all of the upholstering themselves, because the upholsterer they had one day was so slow. There was a lovely screen in our corner. There were quite a lot of painted things, for many of the class are artists. We Sophs were the first to see it after the Seniors. After looking at the parlor we scattered and took seats, some in chairs in the hall, others in the private parlors that had been thrown open for us. Then came refreshments, pears, bananas, grapes, cream wafers, and coffee. All was very nice. We enjoyed it very much. The night before, when the parlor was opened, Clare Rustin gave a spread. When they were singing,194 College songs, they improvised songs for the occasion. "Here's to Classmate Clare, Drink it down, drink it down, For she's done the thing thats square, Drink, etc." Either Kit Aldrich or Kit Murphy was chairman of the Committee for arrangement of the parlor. So they sang, "Here's to chair-man Kit, And Well does she deserve it." The Soph Party is coming off next Saturday, at 6 p.m. I don't yet know what it is to be. I know pretty well that it isn't to be in the hall; for Mrs. Ray wont allow the hall to be fixed up as has been the custom. I think that is very mean in her. If we couldn't fix up the hall, we wouldn't enjoy it there, it is so barren and dreary. The committee laid many plans before Mrs. Ray before she would accept any. One night Prex spoke to us about spreads etc., in de-195 preciation of them. But he said he didn't want to say anything about money expended by private persons who could afforf it (and in that case I don't see why he mentioned spreads at all.) BUt he wanted to speak about those expenses that came on all, alike poor and rich. And he spoke especially about [discussing] to do something different, something better than that done before. This was aimed directly at the Sophs. But if they wont let us decorate the hall as customary, they must expect that we will want to do something different. As for the expense, no one is obliged to spend anything but their yearly fine for class affairs. All the rest is voluntary donations. Prexy made Another Speech about Bible Class and Chapel. We didn't any of us see the point to that. He tried to prove that they196 voluntary, but optional. I haven't seen the voluntary part of it yet. Maybe I'd like to. Mrs. Rays Plan for Social Enjoyment, is for all students who have time and are so disposed to go to Room J. and the back parlor Tuesday and Thursday nights between dinner and chapel. There to play games etc. I don't believe it will be a success. I haven't been yet. The gymnasium is lighted for Dancing any night after study hour at the request of [three]. We girls have been over twice. Last time we danced the lanciers. We are going to learn them so we can dance Phil night. Sunday, Oct 26. 1879. Soph Party. Last night the party came off. We went to a hotel at "Hackensack about197 4 1/2 m. from here. Part went in large wagons and part in carriages. Jessie and I went in a carriage. We had a lovely ride. There was singing and dancing and supper. We had oysters, coffee, sandwiches and olives. Miss Yamakawa made a lovely speech. Nellie Raymond, the Fresh's President, made a nice speech in reply. We had a lovely time. But the time was so short. We heard that Mrs. Ray didn't send in her acceptance of her invitation till yesterday noon and that she told Miss Freidenberg that she was in doubt whether or not to accept the invitation. Such things were a bore. But if she accepted other invitations and did not this, there might be jealousy. I have been propsed for Phil. I am going to join Delta. That has all illustrious members. Pres. Raymond was its first president. Prof. Braislin,198 Prof. Backus, Prof. Mitchell, and Dr. Webster are members of Delta. Jessie has been propsed, too; but we've neither of us even joined Phil. yet. She is put on the committee for arrangement of the room next Friday night! There are only a few members of Delta. Sunday Nov 2nd 1879. Mrs. Wheeler and Edith I am taking it easy today. Am not going to Chapel or Bible Class. Jessie's mother and sister Edith are here. Edith is about 11 years old. Small and quite pretty. She doesn't look as I thought she did. She seems real nice. May went to town to church today. Sunday Nov. 9th 1879. Delta. Friday night Prof. Backus addressed Delta on the subject of the Adirondacks. His talk was very in-199 -teresting. Miss Ransom went with me. After it was over we had chocolate and sandwiches. It was Miss [Canfield's] spread. She is real nice. Prof. gave me a compliment. He told Miss C. I would be quite an acquisition to Delta. He only knows from Lit. and I seldom open my head in class. But I suppose he meant it or he would not have said it. Friday Miss Jones gave a Spread to Delta. She had trouble with Mrs. Ray about her room and is going home. She may return. We had button-hole bouquets, salad, finger rolls, sliced tongue, sandwiches, vienna coffee, whipped cream, all kinds of cake, ice cream, and ices. We had such a nice time. Had a long table with Prof. Mitchell. She and Prof. Backus, Prof. Braislin, Pres. Caldwell belong to Delta. Mr. Vassar was the first pres. of Delta, Prof.110 Mitchell, the second, Pres. Raymond the third. Last night Beta had a Hall Play. "The Haunted Mill," and "Woodcock's Little Game". Both were spendid. Misses Van Clique, Shove, Wells, did best. We enjoyed it very much. The girls put Blocks up on the sides of the door. Ours is always full of nonsense. Such items as "Shakespeare Called" are frequently seen there. The other day the girls advertised on it the loss of their waste basket, and pen wiper, and I put it into poetry on it as follows: - Lost, Stolen or Strayed! From a sorrowing maid, A basket of beauteous make; And her heart's full of woe, So think that a foe, Could from her this prized object take. And a perwiper, too111 Most fair to the view With a gold button shining so bright, So beauteous it was, She'd fair know the cause That's taken it out of her sight. O stranger! I pray If you find them astray, Return them to 22 straight, For the maid in despair Is tearing her hair And mourning their terrible fate. We are keeping slang lists. Madge Miller calls me [Sattycoram], and May, Anne Cora. Nov. 23rd 1879. Plays I was sick last Sunday and did not write. But there has been not much of anything going on. Last week there was a French play, and last night our "Mutual Friend" dramatized. I enjoyed them both112 very much. Of course there are funny things happening all the time in Lit. Election Day Prof. Backus talked politics to us all the period, which we enjoyed very much. Sunday, Nov. 30th 1879 Thanksgiving. Has come and gome. We had Friday and Saturday for holidays and they were very acceptable. May, Jessie, and I sat at Flo Easton's table. Miss Van Lyle, the little Brazilian sat next to me. I like her. After supper we all went to Flo's room, where we played mesmerism, etc. Then we went to the parlors to see them dance. There was a play in the Hall. "The Fast Coach" and "Jacobi." Both were very nice and funny. Then the orchestra played, and the orchestra consisted mostly of [comb] players. But it was very nice. Miss Lyon recited a piece and Miss Van Kleek. She lat-113 -ter came in in a long [tyer] and with her hair braided down her back. Sunday, Dec. 14th 1879. I will go on where I left off rather abruptly two weeks ago. Miss Van Kleek recited "Mary had a little lamb." She forgot part of it and went back and altogether it was the funniest thing I've seen this long time. After the play we had cake and ice cream in the parlors. The next week was Phil Night We had a real nice time. It was not materially different from last Founder's Day. But there were not so many guests. Mrs. Richards was here and read an essay on the "Educational Value of Scientific Invetigation." She called on me. There were the homeliest and queerest set of fellows here that I ever saw (Founder's Day114 being excepted.) Last Friday Alexander Young of Boston lectured on the tragic and comic sides of life. He told 59 anecdotes strung along with a sort of connection between them. That was all. It was the biggest imposition for a lecture I ever heard off. Every body was disgusted. His pronunciation was simply vile. Last nigh Delta gave a hall play. It was real good. The Critique was splendid. Miss Brewster wrote it. The play was founded on the form and twenty black-birds baked in a pie. Those that had been enchanted black-birds were all dressed in black belvet. Miss Varnes was one. She looked perfectly lovely. We girls formed a Political Club. May, Madge, Jessie, and I agreed to spend twenty minutes a day in the115 reading room or pay five cents. But May has backed out. The Sophs are getting up an Historical Club, for the study of mediaeval and modern history. I think It will be real nice. We are going to have a pin. The College Pin is going to be changed. The old one was real homly. You would not know what is stood for. The new one will be plain and pretty and will show the monogram plainly. Jan. 18. 1880. Vacation is over. Of course I had a jolly time, although the weather was bad and I did not go much. I did a good deal of painting and got so I could paint on silk. Lots of things have happened since I came back but I have so little time to write that I can 116 hardly give the heads of things. In the first place, I've finished my second Essay. The subject was Relation of Classics to Modern Education." Miss Hiscock did not wish me to read anything in regard to it. I handed it in yesterday and today thought of something else I ought to have put in it. I must write down here the subjects that were given out to the Sophs. 1. "Review of my Favorite Novel." 2. "How far should the Principle of [Emulation] be carried to Promote Mental Exertion?" 3. "The Relation of Classics to Modern Education." 4. "Characteristics of Children's Literature." 5. "Is there Antagonism between Higher Mental Culture and Perfect Social Grace." 6. "Peculiarities of Booth's Impersonation of Hamlet." 7. "Glaring Defect of the American Social117 System." The subject for the next essays are 1. "Egotism an Important Element of Success." 2. "One More Popular Fallacy. ('Sweet are the Uses of Adversity.')." 3. "Is Crime Fostered or Repressed by the Publicity Given to it at the Present Day?" 4. "The Office of the Sunday School. (A discussion of its relation to the Church, to society in general, and the manner in which its existing methods fulfill its aims.)" 5. "Some Criticisms upon the Method of Preparatory Schools, suggested by my College Experience." 6. "A Truly Useful Life (A bona fide narrative or character-sketch.)" For our Political Club, May retired from it before she ever went into the Reading Room. Madge has failed once. We decided that reading nerve-papers twenty minutes118 in our room was the same as going to the Reading Room. Our Soph Club is getting along finely. We call it the "[Cliv]." I think we shall like it very much. I was one of the committee of three who arragned the [semester's] work. We are to study mediaeval history this year, meet once a fortnight, and are dropped after three consecutive absences, unexcused, but may be voted in if there is no black ball against us. As for Delta, it had a metting last Friday. Miss Pratt asked me to act on next Literary comittee. I don't know what I shall do for entertainment They have made a selection of a College Pin. It is very pretty. The one I want. I like it ever so much. It is graceful and shows what it is.119 Jan. 25. 1880 Clio our history club met first last night and I think we shall like it very much. Miss Sanford begun the meeting with a very propitious omen, by the remark, "This reminds me of a funeral in the house." Louise had a Spreak last Thursday, on her birthday. Her aunt and sister Nettie were here. We had salad, sandwiches, olives, coffee, cake, ice cream, and Charlotte [nurse]. We enjoyed it very much. The Class Elections have come off. Misses Coleman, [Foos], and Britton were presidential candidates. Miss Britton's name was withdrawn. Miss Coleman's friends turned out strong. All those who did not vote for her were trying to make a tie. But it was impossible. There were not many120 ballots and she only [laked] one of enough so some finally went over. Misses Shawe and Howe, for vice-pres. Miss Shawe was elected first ballot. Misses Glen, L.F, Cecil, and Morrill for Secretary. Ballotted some time on that. I thought Miss Cecil would get it but when Miss Glen's name was dropped they went mostly over to Miss Morrill and she was elected. Buckland and Case, for treasurer. Case got it. They were even the first ballot. I wanted very much a tie for pres. I wish we might have had Miss Warder. But she could not have got it against Miss Coleman. If there had been a tie I guess she would have got it. Miss Penfield is president of the Junior class. I am so glad. Miss White vice-pres. Miss Barnum, sec. Miss [Valean] against Miss Pew got the Presidency of Fresh. Class. I thought she would get it. I knew they would never rest till she did get it. We had Episcopal Service today as well as two weeks ago.121 I never went to it before. I don't like it. Too much form and ceremony like the Cathlic. And then to have the same prayer and everything Sunday after Sunday, year in and year out! Bishop Cox, of Western New York preached today. The Episcopals go wild over him. Sunday, Feb. 1. 1880 Delta Elections. Miss Canfield was reelected unanimously for President. Misses Braislin and Harrison were nominated for vice-pres. Miss H. was elected first ballot. Miss Raymond was unanimously elected secretary. Misses Meeker and [Brewster] were elected critiques and we are to have two more. Miss More asked me to read in Delta next Friday. I shall be pretty busy for I have to speak in Clio Saturday on the topic "The Franks and their Conquests. I had my first experience on Chapter Committees122 a couple weeks ago. I didn't know till Tuesday there was going to be a meeting that week, so we had no time to get up anything very elaborate. Miss Meeker proposed we had a tableau burlesqueing the ballad "Gaily the Troubadour," and we were going to have some other things. But news came that Miss Wilkinson of Poughkeepsie, formerly a special and a Deltan would furnish entertainment by reading Shackeray's Ballads. But, as it would not be advisable to have all reading, she wished us to get up a tableua. That was Thursday. We did not wish to burlesque a ballad as she was to read ballads, so we decided to have the "Courtin" in two moving tableaux. We arranged it and Friday afternoon it was rehearsed. Miss Penfield was Jekle, Miss Bell was Huldah, and Miss Smith the mother. But just after dinner Miss Pratt told me that Miss Penfield was called home by bad news and so we had to get somebody else to take her part. I captured Miss Harrison and persuaded her123 to take it. There was only about an hour. Not time for a rehearsal. We had to get things together and I had to run around for a costume for Miss Harrison. Well, we finally arranged things. I didn't like Miss Wilkinson's reading, but I was behind the curtain and I could not hear very well. One funny thing happened. Miss Bell in the tableu had to be pealing apples; and while Miss W. was reading, she say behind the curtain with the pan of them in the her lap. Suddenly she let one fall and it rolled under the curtain out into the middle of the floor. It was too funny! The tableau went off nicely. Last Thursday was Day of Prayer for Colleges. We had to go to Chapel in the morning and I went to prayer-meeting with Miss Nagai in the evening. After that was over Miss Phillips, Miss Harper and I collected in the Japs room and were treated to graham crackers, hot chocolate, and peach preserve.124 Miss Yamakawa and I spent the morning copying our Latin Prose Exercises. It was fortunate we did for the next morning Miss Goodwin called for the books, and if we didn't have them all copied she asked us how many we had to copy and let us keep our books. I had all copied but 3 sentences and I wrote those in pencil in class. We are reading Cicero's Letters now. They are very easy and nice. But Cicero was such a weak-minded man. I get disgusted with him. There was a Phil. Hall Play Friday night "The Danicheffs." It was very nice and had all the best actors. It was Miss Van Kleek's and Miss Shawe's last appearance. The former graduates this year and the latter does not expect to return, and they have been on the stage twice this year. Miss Shawe was perfectly grand. She had a very proud and hauty part. Countess125 Danicheff and she was so grand and handsome. Miss Van Kleek I did not like so well as usual. She is too small and young-looking, and has too high a voice for a man. BUt she was very nice. She was Count Danicheff. Miss Healy was Anna. It was such a sad part. But she was very nice. No one can take a pathetic part like Miss Healy. Miss Rustin was [Osip] and was very good indeed. She was so calm, and firm, and intense. Miss Wardle made a perfect frenchman. Miss Baily as Zakaroff was perfect. Miss Mary Shove as a peculiar and forgetful old man was inimitable. Miss Lyon took the part of the revengeful beauty Princess Walanoff to perfection. Nothing could have been better than Misses Lane and Hopson and Marinna and Anfissa. There I have praised all up, as it seems to me they ought to be. I enjoyed it so much. And the pathetic parts just made me cry. I admired Miss Alice Shove most of all. Seems to me, I never saw any one quite so good, for an amateur.126 Vassar College. Feb. 8. 1880. Minutes of Jan. 10th. The Faculty of Vassar College, Po'keepsie, N.Y. met in the office of the President of said College at 10 mintues and 31 seconds past 1 o'clock, Monday evening Jan 10th. On hearing the loud "Here" given in response to each name as it was called the hearts of all throbbed with gladness. For surely the important question to be discussed at this meeting required the presence of every member of this august body. In order to do justice to the subject to be brought before the meeting, it was necessary that the honest opinion of every Professor be expressed. Mrs. Ray in a stately menner arose and having regaled us with a quotation (too familiar to repeat here) she informed us that the authority of the College had been outraged. A few days since a notice had been, not written, but printed for the benefit of the Preparations and freshmen, to the effect that the ice was in a precarious condition. That she - whose watch-127 -word was duty - had gone to the borders of the Lake and summoned thence four Sophomores who were skating unmindful of the word of warning. She laid the case before the Faculty - whether the whole Sophomore class should be suspended, or should they be lenient and expel only the guilty ones. The President called for remarks. Prof. Backus thought that each should have a ducking. Prof. Braislin thought that experiencing a cool atmosphere would not be a punishment but rather a delight. The President expressed his views - That the faculty had better not be too harsh upon the delinquents for their conduct was probably owing to their never having studied Moral and Mental Philosophy. Mrs. Ray interposed - But if the young ladies had been precipitated through an aperture in the congealed fluid, how could she ever have met the [stuck]-128 -mothers. At this a tear flows slowly down Dr. Hinkle's cheek and falls in silence upon the floor. Prof. Mitchell said for her part she approved of skating. It was probably the only way in which some of the students ever would see stars. Prof. Dwight in the solemn voice declares that he fears his Bible teaching has not been practical enough for the Sophomores and that hereafter he will try to make it useful as well as entertaining. (Dr. Hinkle is heard to mutter "It is good" and Prof. Backus "oh! Dwight who cares about 'Moral Responsibility.'") Prof. Cooley then proposes that as the matter is too important to be decided hastily, it should be laid upon the table for a week. Which is agreed upon. Dr. Webster then moved that the Faculty express by their rousing cheers the pleasure at having President Caldwell again with then. Miss Morse could not participate as she was busy fanning the President, who was nearly overcome129 with this expression of the faculty's esteem. There being no other business to be brought before the meeting, it was moved and seconded that the Faculty adjourn. The motion was carried. Tuesday, Feb 10th 1880 Soph Sociable. The Sophs this year decided not to have any Trig ceremony. Some of the girls said that they did not see why Trig was so much worse than any other study that it should be harped on year after year. Others said it was a desperate attempt to be funny and a terrible failure for the Sophs were too sick of the jokes to appreciate them and the Freshmen could not understand them. Well, other classes made cutting remarks about our lack of originality in abandonning Trig ceremonies, so we got up something different, kept it pretty well a secret, and merely said the Sophs would have a Soph sociable Saturday night.130 When we entered the Society Hall a peculiar scene met our eyes. Miss Sanford said the room looked like a bar room. All but a few settees were piled up out of the way. There were two or three rows directly in front of the stage and one row around the room. The walls were decorated with colored paper fringes, etc., beautiful engravings from Harpers, and a sublime oil painting advertisement picture, presented '82 by a store-keeper in Po'keepsie. The stage curtain was adorned with "Welcome '82" in white letters, and two dancing girls. "Quid Agamus?" shone on us from the wall in red, green, yellow and purple letters. The window curtains were the masterpiece, bring pieces of carpeting artistically looped. As we entered the room we were each presented with a beautiful paper rose and a card. My card had on it a picture of an Irishman carrying a stove funnel and a bottle, while his wife followed with the stove and a child clinging to her skirts. Printed underneath was "Division of Labor" and written "Is it "worth" my trouble to go "south"?" Soon after we were present-131 -ed with programmes. These consisted of strips of paper headed with spherical triangles and followed by the words Past A Burlesque, In Three Acts. Collation, Dancing. These strips of paper were rolled up in a peanut and tied with a ribbon. Of course we were anxious for the Burlesque to begin. But we had to wait for Miss Paterson who was to be Miss Goodwin in Act I. As she didn't come for some time we decided to begin with Lit Class, although, Miss Glenn had arrived. Miss Foos resembled Prof. Bachus very much and took him off nicely. She read to us selections from Hamlet and Burns [tries] to the tooth-ache and asked and answered questions. She also drew us a picture of Burn's on the board and said "There is a little weakness about the nose; but then we wouldn't have it otherwise. And wait till I come to the lips! Ah, young ladies, you don't know how much I think of that picture. When I get down-hearted, I go to it and I say 'Oh Rob, old fellow! you know just how it was yourself.'" Mrs. Ray (Miss Lyon)132 visited Lit. Class. Miss Lyon was perfect as a representation of Mrs Ray. Tall and Stately, with sweeping train and window's cap. I was in Lit class to represent myself. But some of the girls took off others. Miss Baldwin was Miss Pass and was perfect. She wore a slouchy white dress and white shawl and blue goggle and had her hair (which is quite short) oiled, to make it hang in strings, like "Frankie's." Miss Varnes took the part of Miss King and was very good. [It] was either she or Miss Howe, who represented Miss Foos, that asked, "Prof. Backus, is [diel] the Scotch for Guardian angel. Viva Buckland represented Miss L. F Glenn and asked, "Prof. Backus, what was the color of the coat that Chaucer's great-grandfather wove to that party he went to?" To which Miss Foos replied "Well, really, Miss Glenn, L.F., I believe, I don't know. I think it was either blue trimmed with pink or pink trimmed with blue. I have forgotten which. I will make note of it and look it up. Much obliged to you for bringing up that question."133 She wore Miss G's clothes and acted just like her. She had a great envelope post-marked "New Haven," and a thick letter which she was reading. Miss Cora Glenn represented Miss Sanford and wore Miss S. clothes. She didn't get to the hall till Lit. class had begun and she came striding up the hall with Miss Sanford's gait and came to Miss Foos to be excused "Excuse me, Prof. Backus, but I was out taking my exercise with one of 80's girls. Then she took a seat and asked a question, very complicated and hard to understand just like Miss Sanford. If she hadn't laughed she would have been splendid. Next to Lit Class came Latin. Miss Paterson looked exactly like Mis Goodwin and acted pretty well. Miss Coleman was Prof. Hinkle and came into the class. If she hadn't been so tall she would have been splendid. She acted very nicely. Miss Stanton represented Miss Sanford in Latin and took her off to perfection. One question she asked was, "Excuse me,134 Miss Goodwin but is there any special signficance in having the subject of the sentence in the nominative?" After Lain class came Faculty meeting. Miss Philips was Prex. Miss Gross, Miss Morse and she looked exactly like Miss Morse and took off her pussy-cat ways nicely. Miss Moore was Prof. Braislin and Wednesday, Feb. 11. I will continue where I left off. Miss Moore as Prof. Braislin, read the minutes of the last faculty meeting which are copied on the 126 p. of my journal. Miss Koontz was Prof. Mitchel, and she tipped back on the two legs of her chair, corssed her feet, and said "Backus will you please open that window?" The business of that meeting was to speak of different selections of studies. Miss Sanford was read off for Calculus (she doesn't have it) and some one predicted that she would be dropped. Miss Foos was very hard on herself. Miss Lyon was read off for 3 studies. Some one objected, and some suggested that she was not fond of study. Ah, I see, she is lazy135 Oh! she is lazy," cried Miss Coleman, immensely tickled like Prof. Hinkle is when he thinks he has made a joke. After faculty meeting the settees were taken from the middle of the room, and some one played for a dance. Presently Miss L.F. Glenn came in, dragging in a little wagon full of apples and corn-balls. She was dressed like a little Irish boy, with red wig, old hat, calico tyer, red skirt, grey gym drawers. She looked too funny. She was followed by Miss Warden, dressed in an old calico and faded shawl, with brown hair front and great bonnet. On her arm she carried a basket holding, I should think, a peck of peanuts, and a box of candy kisses. We feasted on these and bye and bye they brought in ham sandwiches, olives, coffee and whipped cream. We had a nice feast and more dancing and then gathered around the piano to sing. Among other things we sung, "Here's to Vassar College, The fountain head of Knowledge." Then "Here's to '82, We'll see what she can do." Mis Glenn, C.,136 rushed up to Miss Darling and cried, "I think they ought to sing here's to '81 for us, don't you?" At first Miss Sanford cried "no!" but then said, "Well, we don't begrudge it. What shall we sing with it?" What has she ever done?" cried Miss Howe. So we sung it with a will, and soon Miss Lyon (who was also going to join 81) came up and said, "Miss Howe, that's the brightest remark you ever made!" Then we sung "Here's to Vassar's '80, Otium cum dignitate." And "Here's to '83, who's excluded from our spree." Then, as the Silent Time bell had rung, we started for the College, singing, "Here's to '83," and "Goodnight, Ladies." Oh, we had such a jolly time! We wore our peanuts and roses next day. Every one was asking about it. They all thought it real nice. Prof. Braislin said she thought it was it was [sic] such a nice idea to have the faculty and everybody. She said if she had known she would just as [leiafve] let the girl who had her part take some of her clothes. Prof. Backus met Miss Howe in the corridor and said, "Goodmorn-137 -ing Professor.' And to Miss Koontz, he said, "Look here, Miss Koontz, I don't want you to call me 'Backus'." I think it was a grand success. Sunday, Feb. 15th. 1880 Alpha's Play. At last Alpha had her play. It was real good. Light and amusing as an affect to the Danicheffs. The play was Cinderella. It was bright and amusing. Then there was music. "The Babies on our Block." The music struck up and soon various [babie] cries struck in. The curtain was drawn; and behold half a dozen girls dressed out baby-like, [dandling] dolls. It was very cute. Then the committee came on the stage. They looked all dragged out. One had her throat tied up. One had a hammer in her hand. One had a broom. One had a big note book to put down things and her hair was tumbling down. One had her head tied up. They wore dirty of torn aprons and were altogether a forlorn looking set. They sang138 in a doleful tone their trials since they had been appointed committee. Every stanza ended with "Ain't it sad?" I had to speak in Clio yesterday. My subject was the "Franks and their Conquests." It was Clio's second meeting. Lots of girls were absent. They forgot it. We are going to have a very pretty pin. A large C and a quill. Second Semester began last Monday. I study Latin, Greek, and Calculus. In Latin we have Plautus and now Prof. Hinkle is lecturing to us, so it is not much work to get our lessons. In Greek we are reading Plato; but he takes about half the time to explain, wh. is very delightful. In Calculus, Prof. Braislin lectures helf the period and the other half we recite what she gabe the day before. She makes it so clear in class, we don't have to study it out of class. I went to one of139 Mrs. Ray's Receptions last Thursday. She has them every Tuesday and Thursday between dinner and Chapel. We had quite a nice time. Played copping quotations most of the time. We have a New Parlor Mate. Miss Hattie Walrath of Syracuse. She passed all but one semester of mathematics and one of French for Freshman. She is awfully jolly and quite nice. Jessie has been admitted to the Soph class. I am very much interested in politics. I want Sherman to be nominated for Pres. candidate. Sunday, Feb 29, 1880 Delta. A week ago Friday I recited Darius Green in Delta. The girls said I did it real well and were delighted Miss Julia Meeker read the Echo, Delta's paper. (It was real good. One piece in it was The Modern Romeo and Juliet. It was140 very good. Then there were illustrated Mother Goose Melodies. Little Bopeep, Little Miss Muffet, Jack and Jill, Old Woman, old woman will you go a shearing, and When I was a bachelor I lived by myself. Jessie was the old woman in one and the young woman in the other of the two last. Then they had "Where are you going, my pretty maid," etc. It was really very nice. I handed in another Essay last Wednesday. It was due the Saturday before. But I was sick and I could not copy it. It was a character-sketch and Mr. Tucker, a gentleman at home, was the character. The next subjects are not out yet. I have been reading Clarissa Harlowe, by Richardson. It is a very unpleasant subject, but, after you have read a little way, it is very exciting. I have come to a place where there is a141 lull in the excitement and I put it aside while I read Tale of Two Cities. I like Dicken's [sic] very much and this is very interesting. I did not know he wrote any historical novels. Lessons go very well. Prof. Braislin gave lectures for a fortnight, which was lovely. I don't find it so very hard. I have got out everything by myself so far and it makes me feel good. Prof. Hinkle lectured in Plautus. But he has finished now. I study Latin with Miss Case. In Greek we've been having quite a nice time. But now he is giving very long lessons and does not stop to "explain", so it is hard. We didn't like it and Miss Berrigner told him the lessons were too long, so he said we might get what we had time and he would read the next.142 Bad News. I had a letter from home yesterday full of bad news. The Centre of Stoughton has had a fire which burnt lots of places. It caught in a livery stable and I believe all the houses but 2 were burned. A neighbor of ours was also burned out, and a hotel not very far off burned. My uncle [Arahel] is not expected to live. Uncle Frank cut his fingers most off. But those are better. And lots of folks are sick. I never knew of so much bad news as has come to the College this year. Miss Semple's and Miss Fitzhugh's brothers died. Miss Penfield was called home by the sickness of her little nephew. Miss Gleason's grandfather died. Abbie Nickerson was called home because her father was shot at and is not expected to live. Another girl has just been called home and lots of others which I don't remember.143 Sunday, Apr. 25th Miscellaneous. It is such a long time since I wrote that there is lots to say. But I will only put down the chief heads that I think of. I had a fearful cold, so I could hardly speak out loud just before vacation, so I got permission to go home Tuesday instead of Thursday. May went home with me and we had a lovely time. One day Mr. and Mrs. Pulsifer, Miss Clifton, and Helen spent the day with us. That was Saturday. The next Monday we went down to [Lynn] Beech. Tuesday we went to Canton. Wednesday May and I went to Wellesley College. The building is very beautiful. Much nicer than ours. The reading room is not very nice. That Chapel is not nice but they have an elegant organ. Their library is much prettier than ours but does not look so large and lots144 of the shelfs were empty. The catalogue says they have 30,000 volumes. But I don't believe it; for we have 12,000 and ours looks much larger. But their course can't compare with ours. Their grounds, with the exception of the Lake, are not nearly so nice. Well, Thursday May, Miss Clifton, Helen, and I went to Bridgewater Normal School to see Alice and Clapp. The principal there, Mr. Boyden, knows Prof. Dwight and four of the teachers in the school to which May went before she came here. We teazed [sic] Alice and Clapp to come over to my birthday party, the next night. And the did, and my cousins Dean and Bert Southworth came over from Brockton. We had an elegant time. The next day we stayed at home. Sunday we carried Alice and Clapp over to Brockton to take the cars for Bridgewater, and Dean and [Nuisor] Southworth came over. Monday we had to come back for which we were very sorry. In Boston we145 went around a great deal but not as much as we wanted. A week ago Friday the Laboratory was opened. There were exercises in Chapel, and Matthew Vassar, the President, and Prof. Cooley spoke to us. After that there was an elegant collation in the dining hall. The after dinner speeches were very nice and very witty. We enjoyed ourselves very much. The preparatories had to take a second collation as there was not room for guests and all. We have had Goldsmith's play of "She Stoops to Conquer" here. Miss Hussey was in it. She took the part of Tony and was elegant. She is the finest actor in College. The next play is to be Our Boys and I am to be Belinda, the servant. I went into Po'keepsie to see Jefferson play Rip Van Winkle. It was perfectly elegant. I don't know when I have enjoyed any thing so much. Jessie has had pink eyes but they are146 well [note] . Carrie has been in the Infirmary with measles over a week. She is better now but the Dr. says she can't study till the middle of May, so I guess she will go home Wednesday. She was down stairs two hours today. My last essay was "Shall Girls Go Away to School." It was in the form of a conversation between May, Carrie, Jessie, Madge, and myself. I guess I brought out the characters of May, Carrie, and myself very well. They all said I did. My next essay is to be the "Excellencies and Faults of Mrs. Whitney's Writings." May, Madge, Hattie, Jessie, and I went out to the green-house last Saturday to order flowers for Founders. Sunday May 16th 1880. Phil Hall Play. Well I must write in my Journal today, as something unusual has happened. Last Friday there was a Phil Hall Play, "Our Boys" and I was Belinda. Everybody said it was very funny and very nice. It is great fun to be147 in a hall play and behind the scenes. It is nice to see the different things they do at different rehearsals and if they do the same at the final play. There were lots of nice girls in it. Miss Hussey was just grand as Middlewick. Miss Coleman was very good as Sir Geoffry. Miss Sanford took the part of [Talbot] to perfection. Miss [Withey] was Charlie. She is always nice and handsome as a fellow. Miss Williams as Mary didn't have to act any and Miss Shaw was very nice as Violet and looked so pretty. Miss Van Kleek was over to some rehearsals and she complimented me on my acting, I guess she meant it or she wouldn't have put herself out to tell me so in such strong terms, for she is rather "high and mighty." After the play lots of the seniors came up on the stage and shook hands with and congradulated us. Prof. Hinkle came up too. He was remarkably pleased and I could148 hear him laughing every little time. He was especially pleased when Susie Coleman said "Far from it", for his benefit. Susie had his hat. We enjoyed it ever so much. My costume was something superb. A brown silk dress with white figures on it, that looked like calico and was very delapidated. A red bit apron with patches and dirt on it. A black spot on my face, and my hair fixed wonderfully fine (?). There was an Excursion yesterday to Canaan Conn. They had a special car and went to two iron mines and a quarry. Ex. Gov. Holly joined the excursion and took them to his pen-knife factory. He presented Miss Brockway (the chief of the excursion) with the handsomest penknife she could find. They had an awfully nice time. Jessie went. I would have gone if I hadn't been too tired. I wanted to go dreadfully. There is not very much to say about149 Founder's Day. We danced over to the Gym which was horrid, and I caught cold and had to go to the Infirmary a little while next day. The collation wasn't as nice as usual either. But the literary exercises were especially fine. Mrs. Livermore addressed us. I danced twice, the Lanciers. Once with Jessie and once with Madge. I guess May, Madge, Hattie and I will apply for the [firewall] parlor, second south. Prof. Backus addresses the society of Religious Inquiry tonight and I am going. May 23rd 1880 Tree Exercises. We have chosen our tree, an elm on the Lake path, next below 78's tree. We had our celebration Friday. The same day the Juniors and Seniors went on their excursion down the river to West Point. The Freshmen to be in the style, had150 a fancy dress party in the Gym, to which Carrie and May went as [Corridor] and Phyllis. The poor preps were left to a "drop of comfort" in the shape of sour lemonade, and to peek around to see what the others were doing. We had a Mother Goose party in connection with our tree exercises. Miss Shove sent for permission to have chapel directly after dinner and Mrs. Ray sent back word that we might, but that she wished us to leave the hall directly on the ringing of the silent bell. "And" said Miss Shove in class meeting, "As we go to the tree afterwards, we will leave the hall at silent time and go to the tree for our exercises there." She was greeted with a storm of applause. We had two meetings Friday in Miss Warder's parlor, as Mrs. Ray didn't want us to have a class meeting and would not read the notice. The Fresh debated in meeting whether to send us a bouquet or not, and so heep [ovals] of fire upon our head. They are151 fearfully mad at us because we did not have any Trig ceremonies. Well, about seven o'clock we began to assemble in the Lyceum. Miss Glenn was Mother Goose and wore a yellow skirt with black geese on it and a red figured overdress and a tall pointed cap. She was real nice. The room was nicely fixed. There was a picture of Mother Goose riding on a goose, drawn on white paper and cut out and put on black. Then the whole was framed with the leaves of the Mother Goose book. In the closed curtains of teh stage were the pictures of the cat with the fiddle, the dog laughing, the cow jumping over the moon and the dish morning after the spoon. Miss Baldwin was mother Hubbard. Miss Brittan was Bopeep and she looked very pretty and her costume was becoming. Miss Buckland was "my pretty maid." Miss Case was the main all tab-152 -tered and torn. Miss Cecil was Old King Cole and was the best disguised one there. Misses Coleman, Kornitz, and Foos were the king, queen, and knave of hearts. We knew Miss Foos at once by her quick, nervous actions. She looked so handsome in her black velvet suit and hat. Misses Warren and Easton were Jack Spratt and his wife. Miss Howe was the queen when the dish of blackbirds was opened. Miss Howgate was "Mary, Mary, quite contrary" and distributed bunches of flowers with strings of dangling cockle-shells. Miss Macadam was the priest that married the maiden all forlorn. Miss Moore made a very cute Jack Horner and she had a big pie and went around pulling out bon bons for every body she met. Miss Shailer was the one who brought his bride, Gorgie Morrill, home in a wheel-barrow. Geogie looked as sweet as could be. Miss Nickerson was the old woman with eggs to sell and Miss [Learned] the old man who want a-153 round clipping her dress. Miss Patterson was Daffodil. Miss Peck was the little man who had a little gun. Miss Phillips was little boy Blue and was very cute. She was all dressed in blue and had her hair in long curls and had a horn to toot. Miss Richmond was the maiden all forlorn and looked real pretty. Miss Sanford was "Mary had a little lamb." She had her braided in four of the littlest braids, and dragged a toy lamb after her. Miss Stanton was "Tom, Tom, the Piper's son," and she looked very cute and had a pig made of white cloth. Miss Varnes looked very pretty dressed in black velvet. She was little Miss Muffet and had a red spirder. Miss Warder was Little Red Ridinghood, and looked so pretty with her hair down. Miss Charlotte Wheeler was the Lady of the ... . Jessie was the little boy with the bow and ar-154 row. Stematz was the woman who rode the broom stick. She looked lovely. She had her hair streaming. It is very, very long. I was Mother Goose's son Jack. We danced the Virginia Reel and round dances. The girls played on the piano, banjo, drum, and triangle, and the Glee club sang. For collation we had strawberries, ice-cream, fancy cakes, banana cakes, coffee, and lemonade. When the silent bell rang we formed a procession to go to the tree. I marched with Miss Yamakawa. We started off merrily with drum beating and horn tooting. We saw people at the College windows and cheered for '80 and the Preps. When we got to the tree, Miss Howe, our orator, spoke. Her "oration" was a poem, and was very nice and cute. Then we had a song, composed for the occasion by Miss Brittan, class poet, by the Glee club. Then we cheered [almost] every body and every thing and went back to the College. Oh, we did enjoy it so much.155 Spread. The girls in the next room, and Jessie, united with us in a spread yesterday, consisting of strawberries and cream, fruit-crackers, lemonade and olives. We enjoyed it very much. I wish they would have strawberries at table. Jessie and I walked to the creamery for the cream. The man who kept it was away, and after a gerat deal of questioning we found some one to get it for us but he had to go off quite a way. So we sat on the piazza and waited and saw the babies. The mother or grandmother, whichever she was, seemed highly delighted because we took notice of them. My Class Essay has been changed. I was to read my Character Sketch. But Miss Hiscock liked my last one "Faults and Excellences of Mrs. Whiney's works better. I feel awfully sorry that we are not to have Miss Hiscock for154 our essay critic any longer. Sunday May 30th 1880 Weather. It has been dreadfully hot and dry, but today is wet and cold enough to make up for it. The Observatory register shows that this has been the hottest May since the founding of the College. Really it has been too hot to do "anything but exist" as Miss Haskell said. But the girls noticed she gave them as long a lesson as ever. Most of the teachers however, gave short lessons. Prof. Backus and Dr. Webster dismissed their classes for one day. Dr. Hinkle wanted to give the whole school a holiday; but Prexy was away so they couldn't very well. I am extremely thankful that I haven't had much to do. Greek is getting easy and my other lessons are never hard. I have had just lots of time for reading. I read my essay on Mrs. Whitney's works last Thursday. The warm weather has been very good for the155 Junebugs, which I hate, they fly around so and make such a disturbance. One night they were so thick that Hattie and May pelted each other with them and Hat caught just piles of them and kept them under a glass. But I sent to town for mosquito netting and tacked it in the windows so now I take some comfort evening. Sunday, June 6th 1880. Elections. Saturday was the day for elections. Most of them were unanimous. Student's Association nominated Miss Stockwell Shaw for Pres. Miss Shaw got it. Secretary, Miss Phillips. Miss Cora Glenn also nominated Miss Sanford but that nomination was withdrawn. The nomination ought to have come from our class. Miss Gardiner, now out of College, was nominated for Vice-Pres. Misses Shove and Howe criers. Phil. nominated Miss Durand for Pres. Miss Abbot, not Venus, for vice-pres. She withdrew156 and Miss Erskine was nominated. Misses Durand and Erskine are both out of College. Miss Paterson, secretary, and [I] as treasurer. In our class for pres. Misses Foos and Stanton. We have not voted yet. Vice-pres. Miss Warder; Secretary Miss Broadhead. Miss Ling, treaurer. We wanted to have all our nominations unanimous. Miss Shove said it was not a very important time and it didn't make much difference, so they ought to be unanimous. For her part she didn't care about any officer except pres. and she hoped they wouldn't nominate more than one, etc. Miss Foos was nominated first. Then Miss Shove herself nominated Miss Stanton. I was surprised and indignant after what she said. It seemed clear to me that she meant to nominate Miss Stanton first and have it unanimous. I hope Miss Foos will get it. She has been put up once before. Miss Stanton has been up twice before. Neither are universally popular.157 Exoteric Play came off last night. "Coupon Bonds." It was in itself an uninteresting play but it was pretty well acted. Misses Blanchard and Rollinson as Pa and Ma Ducklow did very well indeed. [Taddy], Miss Halliday, was the life of the play. Miss Iddings made a very fine-looking sick officer. July 8th 1880. Last Days. I want to write a few words about our last days at College. Miss Foos withdrew from the position of candidate for the Pres. of our class, so Miss Stanton is Pres. Delta's officers are Miss Harrison, Pres. Miss Vernes, Vice-Pres. Miss Meeker, Secretary. Miss Platter, first critique. Miss Southworth, second critique. May went Thursday night. Hattie went Friday and the other girls Sat. Miss Hendon, Miss Cole, and Miss Thompson were in my parlor during Commencement. Commencement Concert was the nicest one158 I ever attended. I enjoyed it ever so much. Class Day was lovely most of the Seniors were elegantly dressed. The history and prophecy were very funny and nice. Miss Withy and Stockwell, the tree orators also did very nicely. It was, fortunately, a beautiful day. All the scholars marched in a procession to the tree. The Band Concert in the evening was very enjoyable. It was the nicest Commencement Day as well as Class Day that we will ever have, I guess. In the discussion Miss Barnes had all our sympathetic and prejudices on her side. But we all went over to Miss [Sultiff] after she had talked a little. Her arguments were very convincing and her essay very bright. It was the saddest Commencement parting ever known they say. The Pres. Nearly cried when Miss Reynolds addressed him, and her voice was very shaky. Lots of the girls cried. Miss Pass sat right opposite me, weeping co-159 -piously, so I didn't. The Pres. forgot a part of his little Latin Speech and had to take his notes out. The Seniors had a class supper at night. We Soph's serenaded them, standing on the front steps. The Seniors were in the Lecture Room and threw [carnation] [pinks] down to us. I believe I never told how we sent the Seniors a present the night they had a jollyfication because they had finished all their studies. It consisted of daisies and buttercups, peanuts, candy, gum, etc. and some poetry by Annie Lyon. They returned the Compliment by sending back an '82 baked out of bread stuff, adorned with myrtle and pansies, and some more poetry. That was great fun. I started for home on the Mary Powell Thursday morning. Miss Brown was with me. I fell in with Miss Hussey and her sister, cousin, and two friends. Also160 Miss Sutliff's mother and sister and a Yale fellow of '80 a friend of theirs and Prof. Dwight's. We had a lovely time on the boat. I went around New York with Miss Brown. Abbie Nickerson joined us on the Boston boat. Miss Hussey's party was there, too. So it was very nice. Miss Hussey says she may be in Boston next year studying for the stage. I think she will make an elegant player if she does. We arrived in Boston 7.30. I got home 8.30, and so ended the first [Laef] of my Vassar Career.g. Eleanor (Holmes) Duane, 1928
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Creator: Keffer, Bertha
Transcriber(s): Davies, Eleanor
Descriptor(s): Andrea Ditkoff
Date: 1876
Text: Bertha Keffer Vassar College Po'Keepsie New York"The Japanese Princesses Sailing out from the Eastern Seas There came to our shores five Japanese In the quiet gloom of the evening late They rapped with their chopsticks on the gate The sound to the Faculty's office went And down stepped our gracious President 'Oh Eastern maidens I hear you're come To enjoy the Vassar curriculum. I bid you welcome and promise fair All the mental culture we have to spare.' They...
Show moreBertha Keffer Vassar College Po'Keepsie New York"The Japanese Princesses Sailing out from the Eastern Seas There came to our shores five Japanese In the quiet gloom of the evening late They rapped with their chopsticks on the gate The sound to the Faculty's office went And down stepped our gracious President 'Oh Eastern maidens I hear you're come To enjoy the Vassar curriculum. I bid you welcome and promise fair All the mental culture we have to spare.' They rolled their languishing almond eyes, And pensively gazed on the fading skies. Then shaking gently each tawny head 'Me speakee no English, sir,' they said. Then briskly from out the wing of the north A staid Professor sallied forth. Who muttered on seeing each silent Jap, 'Ha, caught at last in basaltic trap.' But aloud, 'Dear ladies it doth me please To see your faces, bright manganese.' 'And I join with those who would fain invite You to stay your mental appetite, And hope that happy will be your state Beneath our roof of Talcose slate.' But of no avail was the welcome neat 'Me talkee no English' did they repeat. Then gracefully elbowing through the hall Came stalking another Professor tall, Who tossed from his brow one lock of gold And bowed with the grace we know of old. Most charming ladies, the world shall see What a kind protector you'll have in me. I'll be a father, brother, friend A grandfather even if you recommend, And I'll amble with you, since you can't go quick Through the thorny mazes of Rhetoric. While swiftly too, yet I'm not sure,We'll gather the flowers of Literature. This speech, perspicuous and clear, These senseless maidens seemed not to hear The pointed thesis of Bachus' wit Seemed unable their mind to fit. And, as he absently smiled and sighed, 'Me talkee no English,' they all replied. Then forth from the southern wing there came Another Professor of equal fame. His look was gentle, his manner bland, And he swung a cane from his well gloved hand His coming was told by a growl and a bark And "c... c..." was his remark. Then up to the maidens they saw him go And heard him murmur, 'du, de, dum, do' He bowed before them on bended knees Exclaiming 'Salve, O Japanese.' But as the ladies declined to speak, He had recourse to 'original Greek.'And said in a voice both soft and low 'Oh! Erin ... agape.' But still the damsels echoed the cry 'No talkee English,' was their reply. And then there came through the crowded hall A last Professor serene and tall. He stepped before them and grandly said As he gazed on the queues which adorned their heads 'Were you once hung by that braided queue What a pendulum I could make of you It would only disclose the method of tanning What a new discovery to make in Japanning. And from your eyes we might get a notion Of the origin of rotary motion. And from your nation's old mystic lore Might learn what we never learned before Why circles are round and roots are square And how when angry you tear your hair They are remained like fishes, dumb, 'Me no talkee English' did answer come. At last the President forward came 'I'll take you in, in our Matthew's name, And give you the best we can afford Of care and attention and bed and board.' He led them up through the wondering crowd With a footstep firm and an aspect proud He gave them each a parlor alone Leaving twenty eight "preps" without a home And waving his hand in fond farewell Went down the wonderful news to tell. And all night long did the roaring breeze Repeat the names of those Japanese. Ah, sad it is to publish abroad A deep dyed story of woman's fraud. And deep it cuts to my very core To add to the record one tale more. The morning dawned as morning will And sprinkled her flower o'er wood and hill And early on sleeping ears there fell The dulcet tones of the rising bell. But not to the cheerful breakfast hall Appeared these maidens at the signal's call And even the loud, full stroke of nine Of these ladies' faces brought no sign And when we knocked at their parlor door A silence answered, nothing more. The rooms were empty and dark and lone The cage was open--the birds had flown And with them--Oh horrors manifold. The Presidents watch of purest gold Our Professor's young heart with despair was sick To miss his gold headed walking stick Of another loss there were some reports A chrystal charm of purest quartz While another's blood in his veins did curl As he missed his studs of purest pearl And he lifted his voice and said in woe That ever a woman should treat me so." Moral. A moral is always sure to please This is Beware of Japanese And if ever you see some fair "Nancy Choo Or a gentle Sousee smiling at you Be not beguiled by those almond eyes And say as you bow her from the door "No, no, fair Jap, I've been there before," And I've learned a lesson from maidens like thee And I fear the pensive young Japanee." M. Townsend"Sixty Minutes Every Day." The shades of night were falling fast As round the College quickly passed A girl who plod her weary way Because she'd heard the President say;- "Sixty minutes every day." Her brow was sad, her eyes below Were red and swollen as with woe But in her ear still sadly rung The accents of that awful tongue "Sixty minutes every day." From the windows gleamed the light Of the cosy rooms all warm and bright She thought it very hard to bear That she must be in the open air "Sixty minutes every day." "Come in," her roommate called, "and rest Thy weary head upon this breast." A tear stood in her mild blue eye But still she answered with a sigh, "Sixty minutes every day."The thought of the warning oft repeated When in chapel all were seated Of men with dogs who prowing round Were very likely to be found In her "Sixty minutes every day." So thinking, trembling as she went, Till all her vital force was spent And chilled "by evening damp and dew She fell, still faintly moaning too "Sixty minutes every day." She by Thomas in his rounds Half-buried in the snow was found And as he took her in his grasp She raised her head and gave a gasp "Sixty minutes every day." There in the twilight cold and gray Lifeless yet beautiful she lay She died a martyr to her cause Trying to keep those awful laws "Sixty minutes every day." Extract from the Class History of '75. Written by ... ... Preface Whether our work with commendation will meet If we our class History should repeat We are not very certain. Nor if we were would we dare to say Since Livy tells us t'was not the way With the best of ancient writers And if our fame should seem obscured By greater workers, t'will be endured By the thought of another's greatness. Let each one follow in thought, I say, How the health of the girls at length gave way And finally came down headlong. After the manner of ancient men We call on the gods and goddesses then to aid in our undertaking. History. In the Freshman class of '75, Of which but four are now alive, To tell the mournful story, Were girls who worked & strove in vain A single word of praise to gain From the classic llips of Hinkel; For he said, "Ill tell you in kind- ness of heart That common ability forms no part Of your natural constitution. T'is not of this only I complain, For I've talked & talked & talked in vain, You do not seem to heed me. In my leetle dog's tail there is, alas More activity than in the Freshman class, For it never knows cessation. I greatly fear you will not pass You are not fit for the Sophomore Class You never do remember. I think I will now new measures take A Special Prep class soon to make For the benefit of the Freshmen. You never know your "..." well. I vow this class is one big sell! ... quick! does no one speak? It might as well be so much Greek For all you know about it. Asyndeton & quippe qui are not quite plain I'm sad to see, to your muddled brain Chrismus next, does no one know? What! not one on the second row? I will not have this trifling. Also the scheme of part & whole From your tongues must glibly roll. Why don't you study harder? Why don't you ask me what may be The privilege of a Vestal V.? Have you no interest in it?" Com... would excite him so That when the bell rang none dared go Till the last note was taken. These words & those of similar kind Had an evil effect on the student's mind And one that was most unlooked for. "Namely," the students sat up late at night And copied Livy from pure fright That the Prep Class would receive them And now comes our tale to the saddest part And one that will serve to rend the heart Of each attentive reader. The girls grew sick, one after the other From an unknown cause which none could discover Not even the sage professor. And he said as one by one they died And in their coffins lay side by side, "We had better have a post mortem." The sorrowing class-mates knew, alas: What caused the death of the Freshman class, And this tale will solve the riddle." Foster & Dyckman.Ode, Class '76 Ring out, o '76 your song To Vassar's name a tribute bring We hail her now, we'll love her long As time flies by with rapid wing We leave with her hearts warm & true And now before we say adieu We pledge our faith to her & 76 With kindly greetings from the shore We launch our boats on lifes broad stream They're warmed from Vassar's bounteous store Their swelling sails in sunlight gleam With truth & courage at the helm We'll brave the storms, enjoy the calm And loyal hearts we'll keep for '76 Our aim & purpose for the right Our strength in honor truth & love Our watchword wisdom's power & might Our trust in him who reigns above We'll true to Vassar's teachings live, We'll honor to her ever give And to our own loved class of '76 Class Song - '76 Sing cheerily o '76 A merry gladsome song In honor of our college home And all its happy throng May Vassar's glory never fade Never, never, never, But brighter grow through coming years, A beacon light forever. What mem'ries fond will cluster round Our loved cent'l class One mind, one love has been our bond As the bright years have passed And now at last the goal is won The end is just in view And Vassar's portals open wide On vistas strange & new. Ring summer bells your merriest chime And banish care & fear Let class day be a happy time Though partings are so near Let music in the twilight hour Around us weave a spell That shall our hearts with gladness fill And every grief Dispel.Class Song - 76 - Lorelei Our College Days are over our course is almost run The time has come to sever The bond that made us one O sad sad hour of parting From friends so tried & true O sad sad hour for saying That mournful word, adieu Behind us stretch our well known And happy College Days Before us lies the wide world With all its untried ways O many a time in after years For auld lang syne we'll sigh And mem'ry will but brighter grow As the long years pass by. Yet as Deep joy lies close to pain This parting ne'er to meet Brings out a depth of earnest love That makes our sorrow sweet. Farewell our Alma Mater Loved more than we can tell And happy happy bygone Days Farewell, a long farewell. Class Song - Cheer Boys Cheer We are gathered round our Alma Mater See her children come from far & near Some are still beneath her kind protection Some with joy return to greet her here O Alma Mater, great the debt we owe thee We are trained for entering life by thee May the seed which thou has sown among us In coming years, a golden harvest bee.[sic] Chorus Alma Mater though from thee we're severed We remain forever leal & true Thou hast been to all an inspiration May we bring to thee some honor new. II As from darkness comes the slow faint dawning And from dawning comes the perfect day As in ages past arose the bright earth Where alone the waste of sea had sway So may Vassar's glory grow forever May her work bring light throughout the land As the pioneer alone she waited May she ever amidst the foremost stand Chorus ---"Miss Nellie Bates stood at the gates of Heaven a sighing The door was locked, perfectly blocked She put herself to crying She couldn't get in, for the only sin, of asking for this picture. Said Prof. d'Armand "C'est une bonne enfant" She is a lovely creature. A good thing it was he sat on the grass Inside of Heaven's door. For I am afraid that the little maid Would have remained before. So she came in, the happy thing, And for the angels ran She hopped & sprang & danced & sang Smiling at Profess d'Armand"Books read - Kalamazoo '76 & '77 "Helen's Babies" Thinks-I-to-Myself ...-1871 Waverley ... Mannering Romance of Spanish History - Abbott Coleridge's Poems Vanity Fair The Gods & Other Lectures Ingersoll The Tent on the Beach Graziella - par A. De Lamartine. Charles V (3 vols.) Robertson Last Days of Pompeii - BulwerTrust "Make a little fence of trust Around today Fill the space with earnest work And therein stay "Look not through the sheltering bars Upon tomorrow for will help thee bear whatever comes Of joy or sorrow." David Damouna 1 Geraldine Hartoppp was considered by the esoteric to be a girl of striking eauty. The truth known to the esoteric few was that there was a certain hydrostatic force in her as fact which compelled either admiration or hate, & had been known to draw tears of envy. She pawned her necklace at Baden Baden to pay a gambling debt, & next day it was retured to her with a mysterious note which she associated with a mysterious stranger who had watched her with some contempted in his hooked nose as she played. After this her family was ruined. 2 Courtebotte was immensely rich & descended from a line of kings. He sat at breakfast with his hanger-on Plush whom he fed alternately with the dogs who cringed at his feet. Plush for his own reasons tried to dissude Courtebotte from proposing to Geraldine but rec'd for an answer a kick & an oath in an inward voice. III Geraldine finding that she could not go on the stage resolved to marry Courtebotte who had several other establishments. IV While Damouna was exploring a synagoge an ancient Jew plucked him by the coat & said, "Look here mister, you're one of us." V This made Damouna think & hold himself up by the coat collar, a favorite action of his. He then pulled a Jewish girl out of a river & became acquainted with a consumptive Hebrew who wrote poetry & addressed Damouna as his brother. VI Courtebotte's high breeding came out in his habit of beating his wife and sewaring at her in his inward voice. VII Damouna met his hitherto unknown mother who was a Jewish opera singer. "S'help me," he cried in ecstasy, "I always thought I was a Jew." VIII Geraldine was never quite sure whether she helped her husband to drown or not. Darmouna advised her to keep it dark, but did not propose to marry her. "It is no matter" she said "I shall be a better woman for all you have said to use." "Shallbalah" said Darmouna, taking himself up by the collar & lifting himself out of the room. After this he married th elittle Jewess he had pulled out of the river. --- Dr. Ferriers Remedy for Cold in the Head Tinustrate of Bismuth 6 drams Pulo. from Arabic 2 drams Hydrochlorate of Morphia 2 grains Mix - use as snuff
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Creator: Burroughs, John, 1837-1921
Date: July 1, 1890 - April 6, 1891
Text: July 1 Hot and dry. 2d 3. Sprinkles of rain from S.W. 4 Cooler. A shower last night, 1/2 inch water. P.M. Two pretty heavy showers this afternoon Rain enough. Spend the day at home. Pick two crates of rasp this afternoon. 5. Clear and cool, a lovely day. 6. Clear and beautiful and very cool. Almost too cool to sit insummer house this morning. My sleep has been as good as of old for some weeks now. My life quite uneventful. No thoughts, no company, but little correspondence, no new books and...
Show moreJuly 1 Hot and dry. 2d 3. Sprinkles of rain from S.W. 4 Cooler. A shower last night, 1/2 inch water. P.M. Two pretty heavy showers this afternoon Rain enough. Spend the day at home. Pick two crates of rasp this afternoon. 5. Clear and cool, a lovely day. 6. Clear and beautiful and very cool. Almost too cool to sit insummer house this morning. My sleep has been as good as of old for some weeks now. My life quite uneventful. No thoughts, no company, but little correspondence, no new books and but rare reference to the old ones. Julian my only companion. Begin girdling grape vines yesterday. 8 Great heat. 15 Hot day after a cool streak. heavy shower at 5 1/2 P.M. 16 Grape rot begins. 17 Go to Highland. 18 Begin spraying vines to-day. Too late, no doubt; expectto lose entire grape crop by black rot. Hell wihtout and hell within. Black rot on one side of me and a "brawling woman" on the other. 19 Cold and showery; showers light. Rarely see it so cold in July, doubt if it checks the rot. 20 Too cold this morning to sit in the summer house. My hands were cold this morning as I went for milk. Mecury 52. 21st Still cold, 50 degrees Highland this morning. Bright and dry to-day. Rot still at work slowly.24. A visit from Dr John Johnston of Bolton, England, a modest quiet, interessting man, 36 years old, born at Annan; went to school in the Academy where Carlyle once taught. A canny young Scotchman. Like him first rate, not much of a talker, a great lover of Whitman whom he had just visited. Mrs B. would not sit at the table with us, nor hardly be civil to Johnston. The devil in her was especially active. He had a pictures of his father and mother, and of his wife. Goes to Canada to-day to visit relatives and then home. 25. Rain sets in and continues all day slowly. 26. Rains again to-day till noon. About 2 inches of water since Thursday night. The grape rot is happy. Expect to see it sweep the vineyards now. 27. Sunday, still, muggy, hot. 31 Go to Sherwoods and spend the day. Very hot, in the nineties. Shower at night. August 1st Hot and wet. 2d Hot and muggy. 3d Hot, wind S.W. much humidity. 4. Hot and oppressive, wind S.W. Expect every day to see grape rot start anew.6. Hot and muggy. Improving in afternoon. A delicious day in the woods. 8 The funeral day of old Mr. Sterling, my Scotch neighor and friend; died suddenly two days ago; got drunk and never got sober. Born in Rutherglen near Glasgow 80 years ago; lived long in G. and worked at his trade of carpentering; worked in the Arcade. Came to this country 30 years ago and settled back here in the woods when his wife died 10 years ago. Came froma great city to a rocky solitude, and was apparently content. A racy, canny Scotchman, with good deal of dignity of character at times. His one failing a passion for strong drink, which got the better of him at times. I was always glad to meet him and shall miss him much. 16. Our first shipment of grapes last night. Cool and dry. 21. Shipped Moors Early to-day. 24. Heavy showers the past week at night. To-day cold, over cast, autumnal. Yesterday likewise. Frosts in N.W. Girdled Champions all off, and part of rest.27 Heavy down pour last night, heaviest of the summer; ground full of water this morning. This P.M. bright and warm. Began shipping warden grapes to-day. Cut 280 lbs. Moors E. and champion all off. Cut one crate of Delawares also. Sept 7. Sunday; Very busy all past week getting off the grapes weather favorable till yesterday afternoon when we had a tremendous down pour which washed the side hill badly -- a thunder shower without any thunder -- the heaviest of the season. Del. and Wordens about all off; Concords about half. Prices high. Best peaches 4 dollarsSept 13 A wet warm week; rain 3 or 4 days, a disgusting rain and mist. Finished Wordens and Del. first of the week. 17 A clear fine day after nearly ten days of rain. One of the wettest Sept. so far I remember in a long time. Rains very heavy and protracted all over the country. In H. in afternoon. 21. Still fair, and getting cool and fall like, about the last of the Concords off yesterday. -- The bee does not gather his honey from the flowers; it is mainly his product; What he gathers from flowers issweet water -- diluted grape sugar. Out of this she makes [crossed out: his] her honey by a kind of digestion and assimilation. It is not honey till the bee is added -- something special and peculiar to itself. It is precisely so with the poet. He gets only the raw material of his poetry from Nature -- himself must be added, his spiritual and emotional quality before it becomes poetry. Indeed it is so with true literature of any kind. Tis what the man himself adds to his facts or truths or teaching that makes it literature. Sept 24. Start for N.Y. to-day for 10 days vacation. Pass a few hous in N.Y. with Gilder, then to Johnsons at Bay Shore at 3 P.M. Day fine. 25 and 26 At J's have a pleasant time. Eat and sleep like a boy. Meet a Mrs Mapes who was saved from death last winter by skillful surgery, a bad case of pneumonia, both lungs invaded. When they saw and she felt she was dying they pumped oxygen into her lungs -- only a small space at the top not congested. She said her feelings were, "Oh do let me die, do not prolong my agony. I am dying, nothing can save me, leave me in peace" Then tumors formed upon her lungs and they opened her through the back, put in pipes and drew the pus[crossed out: s] and water off, and thus faught the disease and conquered. For many weeks afterward she was out of her mind, ideed a maniac from the [crossed out: use] effects of the morphine administered. Gradually she came to herself and is now quite well again. 27 Go to Camden to-day to see Walt. Find him eating his dinner and eating like a well man and looking like one. Am quite shocked at the chaos amid which he lives and which seems to grow worse from year to year. Never saw anything like it in my life. Itfairly stuns one. The table at which he sat was piled up with books and papers and letters as long as they would lay on apperently pitched on with a fork. The dishes holding his dinner were pushed into this mass, how I do not know. All about him the chairs and other tables were piled full and the floor was covered nearly knee deep, an avalanche of litter, dust over all. Another Such room perhaps the world does not hold. It is so terrible that one feels as if he may have to be judged as a poet by that room. The effect was depressing. He is better than for 3 years past except his locomotion and hearing, which are failing. I sit and talktill Horace Traubel appears at 5, when I go home with him to tea, and then to Harneds for the night. 28 A bright Sunday. See Walt again at 11, in the lower room, where more order reigns and where in his big chair by the window he looks as of old. At 5 he comes to dinner at Harneds and we have a fine time. He eats and talks as of old. At 7 he is wheeled home in his chair and I walk by his side and take my leave of him. Then to Church (Unitarian) and listen to a bloodless sermon and nearly fall asleep. How we love the concrete, the real, in poetry, in literature, in art. Indeedwill have it. No wonder then, the people want it in religion. Something tangible and real that takes hold of their concrete natures. Hence the vitality and power of the old creeds. It is not moonshine, however false. It seems real. Such airy nothings as the Unitarians offer can never take hold of the people, or of me either. The old theology outrages one, the new starves one. 29. Bright day. Back to N.Y. Oct. 1st Lovely day. 2d ditto. 3 Rode all day through Mass. From Boston to Po'keepsieAm truly astonished at the look of this famous state; not till I struck our own state in Dutchess Co. did I see a good farming country. It seems to me that less than 25 per cent of the land I saw from the car window was under cultivation, or was worth cultivating. A flat country all grown up to bushes and scrubby pines. Only when we struck the towns was there signs of thrift and prosperity. What a contrast Dutches Co presented! here one spread of fine farms and homesteads. In the Connecticut valley about Northampton is a vast area of beautiful prairie land and that is all I saw till I reached N.Y. 4 Lovely day. At home again. 5 Fine day: get track of a bee tree back in the woods. 8 Cool day of sun and shadow after two days of rain. No frost yet. The white throats are here. 15. A bright lovely day. Go out home in the morning. How deep and strange my feelings as I catch sight of my native hills from the train. I had never before seen it under just such conditions; none of my family there, and the farm mine. Take dinner with sister Abigail and then PM walk up to the old place. George thrashing buckwheat. [crossed out: ???] Walk over the hill and down to Tylers. Spend the night with George. Find he is doing welland can pay the rent. He and Maria have worked like slaves and have done all that could be done. I conclude to let the farm to him for another year. 16 Walk over to Tom Smiths. A bright day with signs of approaching rain. In after noon go over to Curtis'es and spend the night. Have great pleasure in seeing him again. In the morning early he awoke me by calling "John" to his son up stairs. I answered automatically as in the old days when he called me as a boy to get up to milk. A pouring rain all night. 17 Go out to Edens on noon train. Bright and fair. A pleasant visit to Edens. Hiram is there and it seems like old times. How differentfrom my last visit there! 18 Bright day. I climb the mountain in search of basswood trees for crates. Wander about in the still woods on the damp newly fallen leaves, listening to the drumming of the partridges and selecting the tall trees. Eden goes fox hunting, and Hiram goes to the neighbors. Ed. chops wood. Seeing my people again, and my native hills satisfies a longing that has been very keen all summer. Eden seems to be doing well on his farm and I think may keep it. 19 Rain and rain. Return home in afternoon.24. Cold rain all day from the north, a cyclone sweeping the coast. No frost yet to kill tomatoes. Much rain. Work at hauling soil in vineyard and digging out rocks and stones. Nov 10. A fine month so far, no rain to speak of and little frost. Getting quite dry. Only once before this season have ten days elapsed without rain. At work all this month grubbing up trees and rock back of the barn. Health good and life fairly enjoyable. Domestic skies quite bright. Election Day (the 4th) a fair day, partly overcast. The result of the elections a hard blow to Republicans and high tariff men, suits me, who, three years ago cried halt to the tariff bucks. 14 A lovely day, genuine indian summer. At work with Sherwood laying a gutter along the road in the vineyard. 15 Overcast; thick, still, threatening rain, still at work on the gutter. 16 Lovely day. More Indian summer. Julian and I wak over to the steam shovel. Signs of storm at sundown. 17. Thick and murky. Rain began in morning, now at 11 a.m. raining hard. 18 Fair agian. Rain not severe. 19, 20, 21, and 22d all fair days and mild. 23 Sunday. Our first snow squall this morning. The great flakes came down thick and fast for nearly an hour. Now at 10 A.M. sky nearly clear, sun shining, and snow melting. It was only a light white wash Finished clearing up the woods back of the barn yesterday. Grapes all trimmed and laid down. 27. Thanksgiving. Bright; dry, hard cold, freezing nearly all day. A domestic tornado. A long dry spell, the first of the season. Looks to me now like a cold winter. 28 Clear, cold, still; not a cloud. Work at the gutter in vineyard with Sherwood30 Mild, clear in afternoon, hazy. An Indian summer look. Ice on the ponds yesterday 3/4 inch. No rain yet. Dec 1. Clear, dry and cold, wind in North. 7. A week of quite snug winter weather; mercury down to 8 degrees on Tuesday the 2d. Some snow and hail and rain. The ground now covered with a thin coat of amil. The stones covered with ice. No ice in river yet. 14 Another rather snug winters week. Much ice on the river said to be 7 or 8 inches on the ponds. No little boat this week. no snow, no rain. Worked nearlyall the week on lot back of barn -- Is it science or is it democracy, or the time spirit, that has caused the world to become more and more secular, less and less religious for the past 200 years? With all our Christianity, the ancient communities, Egypt, Greece, Rome, were much more religious than we are, that is their lives, both individual and natural, faced much more toward the unseen supernatural powers. The gods played the leading part in their histories; they really play no part at all in ours. Religious motives, fears, hopes etc. entered largely into every act, national and individual. At Plataea, both the Greeks and Persians refrained for 10 days from makingthe attack becasue the oracles and other victims were unfavorable. The armies had their diviners, upon whose word the action hinged. No expedition was undertaken without consulting the oracles, and no action fought without [crossed out: ???] offering sacrifices. Indeed life in the ancient nations was a drama in which the gods always played the leading parts. What havoc was played with the Greeks at Syracuse because of an eclipse of the sun or moon. Religion bore no relation to morality with the ancient races; the most shocking and revolting crimes were committed in the name of the gods; the gods themselves were often immoral. But ours is a religion of morality. Indeed morality is becomingmore and more, religion as such, less and less. -- My first reading in Schopenhauer lately -- "The Wisdom of Life" and wisdom there is in the book and penetration. The style is clear simple and direct, not at all heavy and cumbersome, like most German writing His pessimism crops out here and there, as in this sentence. "There are more things in the world productive of pain than of pleasure" He says the meaning of Philistine is a man with no mental needs -- he is not a son of the muses. He says all the wit there is in the world is useless to him who has none. He says when modesty was made a virtue it was very advantageous to the fools. Fame is something to be won; honor something not something to be lost. Fame never can be lost, but honor once gone is gone forever. The dishonorable act can never be recalled. Vulgarity, he says, is will without intellect; ordinary people take an interest in things only so far as they excite their will, that is their interest is a purely personal one. Card-playing is a mere tickling of the will. But a man of intellect is capable of taking an interest in things in the way of mere knowledge, with no admixture of will; nay such an interest is a necessity to him. The philistine has will, but not intellect. I myself am deficient in will; my wife deficient in intellect -- "Old Jack Sprat could eat no fat", etc. Between us both there is no peace in the householdThe book is upon happiness, and the conclusion of the whole matter is that a man is happy only by reason of what he is in and of himself. He hates Heg[crossed out:le]el, and says this of Goethe: "It is a great [crossed out: mistake to] [???] of folly to sacrifice the inner for the outer man, to give the whole or the greater part of ones quiet leisure and independence for splendor, rank, pomp, titles and honor. This is what Goethe did. My good luck drew me quite in the other direction." Dec. 20 The tenth anniversary of Mother's death, the day clear, still, cold, good sleighing, 6 or 7 inches of heavy snow three days ago on a hard frozen icy ground; river nearly closed, or closed above and below with a large open space in front of us.Mercury down to 4 degrees this morning. I sit in my study and try to write again on Analogy, my old theme of 20 years ago. Julian on the hard snow with his sleigh. Mrs. B. busy and cross in the house. 21 It is interesting to note how man perpetually makes God in his own image. As man becomes more and more humanitarian he makes God more and more humanitarian. God grows benevolent as man grows benevolent. He is no longer the implacable governor and ruler of the universe, he is our heavenly Father, more ready to tender forgiveness than we are to ask it. I do not know whether or not God made man, but it is certain that man made God. 26. A big snow storm from N.E. began early this morning. Looks like old times and feels like it. Can hardly see the ice houses. Snowed yesterday in Va. and Ohio valley. Mercury down to 10 degrees. 27. About one foot of snow. Mild and partly clear to day. 31. Cold rugged winter weather. Mercury fluctuates from 4 [crossed out: above] to 15 above. J. and I had our first skate on the river yesterday. Overcast and threatening snow. -- How many of the notions of mankind are like those of the farmer who assures you that his spring is warm in winter and cold in summerso far as his sensations are concerned and therefore to all intents and purposes it is warm in winter and cold in summer. He has not learned that his senses are relative; that the temperature of the outward medium in which we live and move influences our judgement in such matters. The age in which one lives makes a thing seem hot or seem cold, seem good or seem bad, a [???] heresy or one eye is the [???] opinion of the next. The truth does not vary, but our perceptions of itbut our perceptions of it vary greatly. 1891 January 1st Still, cloudy, inclined to be foggy, mercury 20 degrees. A little snow last night and yesterday. Health good these days, better than last year. Very few of my peculiar symptoms. Digestion better than for a long time. Can even eat mince pie. Mind vigorous, yet no new thoughts or impulses. 2 Warmer, rain and fog, same as one year ago. Now at 3 P.M. cannot see river for fog. But signs of breaking. Mercury 40 degrees. -- Compare such criticism as Lowell's and Stedman's with Matthew Arnold's and you see what their deficiencies are: They lead nowhere, they have nosystem, science. There are no currents of thought in them setting towards certain definite points. They really throw no light on the book or author they discuss; the question are left just where they were before. No organization, no survey of the man from one clearly defined stand point. Perhaps some hint may be given by saying that their criticisms are analytical and never synthetical, they give us no wholes. They are never creative. They never lead us to a window, but at most to a crack or crevice. In some of Lowells shorter paper, as the one on "Emerson as a Lecturer" and on "Thoreau", the results are more synthetical. But there is little evolution, little growth in either L. or S.1891 5 Snow all night and nearly all day from the north, a local storm; pretty cold Looks like the height of winter I sit all day in my study and labor and do not even bring forth a mouse. Indeed, a mouse would be very encouraging. Trying to read Martineau's "Basis of Authority in Religion," a ponderous tone, very tiresome. M. is a deep thinker and a strong effective writer, but he is tiresome, a fatal fault. 6 Bright day after the snow and a little warmer. Again after three years I see before my window a plain of snow where the sparkling river used to be. Two men are now crossing. How their figures stand out in the vivid sunlight on the spotless surface!Jan 10 Clear and cold; down to zero this morning, 6 below over by station. Snow deep, winter full-grown and robust; not much wind yet. Bad head-ache last night; worst for a year. Took up yesterday Renans Life of Jesus. What would be ones feelings if he were to come back to life 100 years hence, a world filled with strangers. How would his own country seem to him all filled with strangers, all the questions, all the leading men, new to him; his own farm [crossed out: and] or house occupied by strangers who had never heard his name.12 Big thunder shower last night bet. 11 and 12. Thundered and lightened and rain poured for over an hour just as in summer. Rained most of the day yesterday. River all covred with water this morning. Wells and springs full. -- "Who knows whether the final term of progress, in the millions of ages will not bring back the absolute consciousness of the universe, and in that consciousness the awakening of all who have lived. A sleep of a million years is no longer than a sleep of an hour." Renan. It is said that Mongol physicians never ask their patients any questions about their [crossed out: disease] ailments lest they appear to show ignorance in their profession. They feel the pulse in both wrists at the same time.January 16 "By our extreme scrupulousness", says Renan, "in the employment of the means of conviction, by an absolute sincerity and our disinterested love of the pure idea[crossed out: l], we all, who have devoted our lives to science, have founded a new ideal of morality." -- "The great man, or the one hard, religious all things from his things; or the other he masters his trial." Renan. Finished Renan's Life of Jesus to-day. I do not find the figure of Jesus as he is portrayed in these pages very impressive. The book [crossed out: is full of] abounds in noble sentimens and fine thougths, but there is something lacking, something which a more profound and serious nature would have supplied. He does not speak the word which explains the enigma of Christianity, tho' he often raises the hope [crossed out: ???] and expectation that he will speak it. Tihs comes near it "The essential work of Jesus wasthe creation around him of a cirlce of disciples in whom he inspired a boundless attachment, and in whose breast he implanted the germ of his doctrine. his moral type and the impression which he had produced was all that remained of him." Of course the letters of Paul and the synoptic Gospels made Christianity, but what made Paul and how came the [crossed out: ???] Gospels to be written. What was there in this obscure Galilean that caused these things to be said and written about him? They were not said and written of Philo, or Jesus the son of Sirach, or of John the Baptist, or of Appollonius of Tyre, or of St Paul, or of Socrates. Why were these things written of Jesus of Nazareth? He must have been an extraordinary person to begin with; he produced anunique impression. Then the legend of the resurrection [crossed out: done] did the rest. Without this Christianity would never have been heard of. How did this legend begin. Here is the miracle, the mystery of Christianity. St Paul took this up and gave the rationale of the matter and thus furnished the doctrine feet to travel on. But back of all is still the personality of Jesus. He must have assumed a tone of authority and an air of mystery that were very impressive. As Renan says, "The faith, the enthusiasm, the constancy of the first Christian generation[crossed out: s] is explained only by supposing at the beginning of the whole movement a man of colosal proportions."January 17. Snug, uniform winter weather, [crossed out: but] about right every way. No severe cold after the thunder shower of Sunday night. Read the exploit of a Brooklyn man in killing a bull moose in Maine. With his guides, all armed with Winchester rifles, he followed the trail of the moose through 2 feet of snow for six days. They started him from a moose yard near the top of a mountian. As soon as the animal found itself pursued it led right off and hoped to outwalk its enemies. But they had snow shoes and he did not; they had food and he did not. On the 5th day he began to show signs of fatigue, by resting often. He also tried to get aroundbehind his pursuers and let them pass on. On the morning of the 6th day he had made up his mind to travel no further, but to face his enemies and have it out with them. As he heard them approach he rose up from his couch of snow, his [crossed out: main] mane erect, his look determined, and confronted them about 50 yards distant. Poor creature, how my heart went out to him brought to bay there in the snow of those Maine woods. He did not know how unequal the contest was. One thing I devoutly wished, that he too could have been armed with a Winchester rifle and knew how to use it. But before he could use such weapons as he had, two bullets cut him down. And the man brags of his exploit!18 Snowed till after noon. Hail and some rain all night, and most of the day yesterday. Clearing to night. -- M. writes well; he is scholarly and thoughtful but he has not the gift of style, no fresh new quality of mind. His work has nothing to distinguish it from the great mass of scholarly production now turned out on all sides. I do not know [crossed out: as] that Woodberry's or T.S. Perry's has either. The only pickle that will keep these things is just what the schools and the books and professors cannot help you to. Arthur Young in his travels in France in 1787 says, "Who in comon sense would deny a king the amusement of a mistress, provided he did not make a business of his plaything! Paris at that time had no sidewalks or foot pavements as he calls them. Walking was fatiguing anddangerous to men and impossible to a well-dessed woman The bodies of infants used to be put in stays, he says, and are so still in Spain. 20 Myron Benton came to-day at 10 1/2 A.M. Delighted to see him Weather mild. 22. Heavy rain from South pours all day. Much damage and loss of life in some places 23. Bright and warm. Myron leaves to-day. Drives with Mrs B. to P. I go down on noon train to drive back. Ice not very good. Myron and I have had our old talks again. Every moment he was here gave me pleasure How much more life would beto me if I could often have visits from such men as Myron. 24. Warm and clear. Looks like a breaking of old Wwinters reign. 25. Heavy snow, wet and heavy, breaks down some of my hemlocks. Thaws all day, snow stops by noon. 27. Clear, warm, and [crossed out: hazy] smoky, a fly buzzing on the pane. Is the cold indeed over? 30 Rain last night. Bright and warm this morning. Snow still deep. Ice on river covered with water. Feb. 1st Still warm and bright. Feb. 2d Still warm and bright, but cold wave coming. Feel its breath already. -- When I look up at the stars at night I am so overwhelmed sometims that I say to myself we can not only conceive of a being that could do that, but we cannot take the first step toward conceiving him. How puny and insignificant seems the God of the churches. Therefore I say he is the most devout man who says there is no god -- the utmost stretch of [crossed out: ho] whose thought cannot make out one feature or attribute of a being who could put those stars up there. The universeis so stupendous that it crushes any Atlas upon whose shoulders we may place it. There is no God. There is a self existing, self perpetuating universe. This notion of the Heavenly Father who concerns himself about each individual, whence does it come? In life and history there is not the slightest edivence of such a being. The other day out on the plains of Kansas, a poor widow with her three children found the wolf of want at her door. What oculd she do? She would destroy herself and family. The eldest boy aged 12, escaped with his throat partly cut and ran to the neighbors and gave the alarm; but before help could return the house was burnedand the woman and her two little children burned with it. Where was the Heavenly Father then? Barely one such case and there are thousands of them, and worse, every year -- dissipates completely all such notions. If you can survive the clashing and warring and waste of the universe, all right; if not, all right. I heard of an idle fellow convicted of some crime whom the Judge sentencedd to three years in the penitentiary. When sentence was pronounced he exclaimed to the judge in the most pleased and satisfied tones, "All right, Judge, all right."Feb 3. More rain. Cold wave knocked in the head. "Thus it is in revolutions" says Arthur Young who was travelling in France in the early stages of the French Revolution "thus it is, one rascal writes (some preposterous story) and a hundred thousand fools believe." 5. 5 P.M. A solitary robin just flew over and dived down into my hemlocks by the house. Cold this AM. 7 degrees above. 6. The robins sang this morning in a tree near the school-house mild and thawy. 7 Overcast this P.M. thawing. Ice boats all waiting for a breeze, which will not come. I look out on the ice and see a little black speck over towards Hyde Park That is Julian going for the 2,40 train. I hear the train coming; the black speck seems to move faster, but when the train passes it and stops at the station there is a wide strip of ice yet between it and the shore. Then the black speck creeps back. 8 A white world indeed this morning All the trees turned to snow; Even the telegraph wires are long white lines as big as ropes. Snow fall about 6 inches, one of those silent stealthy storms; not a bit of wind or commotion in Nature -- nothing but the falling snow. 14 Rather a pleasant week, but getting colder to-day. No storm since Monday. 15 Sunday; Down to 2 degrees below zero this morning. Bright and clear, and warmer as the day advances. Blue-birds in the air. General Sherman is dead, the lst of our great generals of the war. 16 Rain this A.M. and in the night. Mercury up to near 40 degrees-- When a tree is sick, or killed suddenly, it does not drop its leaves. It seems that it requires strength and vitality for a tree to let go its leaves. It is only the alert and growing mind that can let go its old beliefs and views. 18. Three days of rain clearing this morning. The air full of blue-birds this morning. Saw 12 in one flock s I went to the P.O. They were calling merrily from many points. The blue-birds came north on the crest of the warm wave which was very high farther south -- 74 in Washington, about 45 degrees here.19 Ice boatmen out again to day, and so slow they go that I fancy I can almost hear them curse the laggard wind. Old Boreas! wake up and give them a send off worthy of you. This will pass for a winter of light winds, never remember to have seen a season [crossed out: with] of such gentle breezes. No big blows at all. 25. Warm, threatening rain. Snow and ice melting very fast. Big floods in the west, air full of blue birds and robins. Sap runs fast. Not much cold weather since my last date.Walking in the fields on Monday I noted a phenomenon of the snow that I have never seen referred to -- it was the sound made by the sudden settling of large patches of snow as the foot touched it, a crashing, falling sound that shot away from one, as the cracking of the ice darts away when you walk upon it. Very sudden, very peculiar. It would startle my dog and make him stop and look about. Apparently the warmth had thawed the snow from beneath, and the multitude ofweeds and grasses held it up. On the least jar down it dropped a fraction of an inch making a curious crashing sound.The snow was shallow, only 1 or two inches deep. Where there were no weeds or stubble to hold it up, this phenomenon was not witnessed. 26. Mercury up to 50 yesterday; the ground more than half [crossed out: bear] bare this morning. Cooler to-day. -- If the Earth [crossed out: was] were all covered with water, we [crossed out: would] should then have sea without limits, a boundless ocean, which yet would not be infinite -- limitless but not infinite. This idea is in Prof. Clifford; lecture on "The Aims and instruments of Scientific Thought."1891 Mch 1. A bright day. The edge of a cold wave just reaching us. 2d Mercury down to 2 above this morning, and not above 12 all day. Bright and cutting. 3d Cold iwht light snow falling. Read "Liza" by Turgeneiff. A real experience to read a novel by this geat romancer. The taste of his books is always sweet and good to me. No hair splitting here, no tiresome analysis, all is large, simple, fresh. Sad, probably no sadder than life. 4. Snow last night and to-day about 6 or 7 inches. Real winter agian. The rents and holes in the ice nearly all closed.5th To P. to-day in cutter, wife and I. thaws some in middle of day. Cold wave at night. 6. In cutter over to Rifton to look after cart. Bright and warm, but good sleighing. A pleasant ride. 7. Bright and cool; not quite warm enough for a sap-day. 9 Slow rain becoming heavy by spells at night. 10 Bright day, spring like, good sap day. Snow getting thin. 11 Lovely spring day; clear, still, and warm. Best sap-day yet. Bad head-ache, sat in my chair till 1 am. Prof Lintner, the entomologist, reports this interesting fact, Twenty years ago a scale insect was carelessly brought from Australiaon some plant. It soon spread rapidly to various shrubs and trees, particularly to the orange tree. It spread so rapidly in the orange groves and orchards that many trees were killed and whole orchards abandoned. Every rememdy was tried upon it but in vain. Then Prof Riley bethought him that the insect must have some natural enemy in Australia. Two of his assistants went there and brought back 12000 specimens of parasites, out of these 2 proved the ones they were looking for. They soon checked the scale insect, and finally nearly exterminated it, and the orange culture revived again. This seems to have happened in California. Pests of all kinds seem to be on the increase, but so far mans wit keeps ahead. 12 Presto! what a change. The river a great smooth mirror this morning. The ice slipped away in the night as quickly as the Arab. He began to move a little yesterday afternoon. First sparrow song this morning. How delicious. To my delight and surprise heard over by the station my little sparrow of last year, he with the long silver loop of sound. What would I not give to know just where he passed the winter; and what adventures by flood and field he has had since last fall. But here he is, safe and sound. Of course it is the same bird. I have never before heard a sparrow with that song. Mild and overcast to-day. Rain in afternoon13. Rain and fog. The red shouldered starling yesterday and to-day. 14 Clear, windy, and a cold wave, typical March day. The ice all swept from the river and packed along the eastern shore, up and down as far as one can see a white border of ice, apparently unable to move at all, pinned to the shore Ground more than half bare. Since December I have written the following pieces: 3 for Youths Companion paid 120 dollars 1 McClure's Syndicate 40 1 on Wild Flowers for St. Nicholas 50 1 for Independent 15 1 A Hard Nut 15 1 C. Union, 'Pop. Errors and Delusions' paid 20 1 Analogy 50 1 Points of View 20 1 [crossed out: Logic and Sentiment] 1 Eloquence and Poetry 25 Finished, The Spell of the Past 50 405 dollars17 Clear and sharp, a day like cut-glass; hardly a film in the sky, below freezing all day in the shade; too cold for sap. Helped "Zeke" haul the lumber for the crates over from the depot in the afternoon. Highland burned up last night. Yesterday (Monday) fair and cool. 18 Warmer, good sap day. Go to P and stop in H. to see the ruins of the fire. Roads dry much of the way. 19. Overcast. Wind from East. Burn brush all day. Enjoy it much. Saw first phoebe bird, silent. 20. Still overcast with East wind. Storm approaching. Burn brush again. "Zeke" and Acker putting ashes on grapes and raspberries. Temperature at freezing. 23d Monday. The fifth day of east wind; light rains. Warm and spring like to-day. Mercury up to 60 degrees. Meadow-lark and high hole to-day. Oh, how good their calls sound coming up from the fields. To-night the first peepers. Oh how good they sound too. Overcast with a glimpse of the sun a few times. Hauling stone and moving earth from under the shed. 24. Overcast, mild, still. Bees out. Elting Krum buried to-day from the little church, a young man without blame, consumption, age 26. 25. Bright lovely day. Go to Highland to the Rogers auction. Road very bad in places. Saw crocuses in bloom 26 Bright, dazzling, with keen cutting wind from the north; froze in middle of day fear snow. Ice all gone some days and boats again running. Sterling here helping about the crates. Turtle dove to-dayMch 29. A week of dry cold north wind, no rain or snow in this section. Ground getting dry. The last snow bank gone, except in the woods. A terrible rumpus in the house again, all about nothing, simply nothing. The spontaneous combustion of Mrs B's temper. 30 A marvellous day, all sun and sky, north wind, ground nearly ready for the plow. A day to burn up the rubbish, for the spring purification by fire. Mrs B. still on the rampage. We have tongue three a day, and for lunch too. A few night ago she called me a villain and a rascal, and I have left her be[crossed out:a]d, and ought to leave her board also. Never was such a temper in a woman before31. Cool, overcast in afternoon getting dry. Clucking frogs began two or three days ago. [crossed out: Toads] Mr Toad is on the road. Mrs B. on the rampage. I left the table this morning when half through breakfast, not to return till there is a change. I can live in the woods on a crust if need be. April 1st A white wash of snow last night, all gone now at 10 A.M. Promises to be a fair day, tho' a chilly air. Mrs B. left yesterday not yet back. Where is she? 3 My 54th birth day. Eight inches of snow fell last night, nearly all gone to-night. Worked most of the day in the horse stable with DuBois. A terrible row in the house over poor Mrs Fletchers letters. A sad and gloomy day to meSaw an angle worm this morning crawling on the top of the snow. It was then snowing quite hard, the snow wet and heavy. Health good, or would be if I could be allowed to eat my food in peace. 4 Squally day. Snow on the ground in many places The peepers do not stop for the snow. Hepaticas to-day gathered by the boys near H. 6. The farms on the Fishkill mts. still white with snow. Hepaticas in the woods here. Ground nearly dry again. Chilly winds and frost at night. A shrike in the Hibbard orchard I observed him for nearly halfan hour. I have rarely seen a bird sit so long in one place. It was the loggerhead -- dull and ashen gray with black wings. He squealed and warbled and called and whistled and was silent. He allowed me to apprach within 20 or 25 feet of him and stand and observe him. He regarded me as he might a cow or horse. Even my dog, "Dan" was attracted by his medley of notes. I recognized but one familiar note, or notes, certain one of the cat-bird I left him in the tree and came away. His head followed very significantly a little bird that flew over him.
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Creator: Fradin, François
Date: 1497-1536

Date: [After 1933]
Text: DURANT DRAKE 1878 - 1933 After eighteen years of devoted service to Vassar College Durant Drake, Professor of Philosophy, died at the age of fifty-five in the early morning of November twenty-fifth. Always frail in body he at first attached no great significance to the illness that laid him low in the month of October, and even when told that the end was near continued a gallant struggle for recovery. Recognizing at last that death had come to claim him he accepted the inevita- ble with...
Show moreDURANT DRAKE 1878 - 1933 After eighteen years of devoted service to Vassar College Durant Drake, Professor of Philosophy, died at the age of fifty-five in the early morning of November twenty-fifth. Always frail in body he at first attached no great significance to the illness that laid him low in the month of October, and even when told that the end was near continued a gallant struggle for recovery. Recognizing at last that death had come to claim him he accepted the inevita- ble with courage and perfect serenity. Durant Drake was of New England puritan stock. It was in accordance with the traditions of his race that he went first to Boston Latin school and then to Harvard University, winning prizes all along the way and graduating summa ggg laude. A kind fate gave him close touch7FIth eminent scholars in his chosen field and fruitful intercourse with them helped to shape his own ideas into what he himself called the philosophy of a meliorist. "If," he wrote, "there is any keynote that has given a kind of unity to my thinking in diverse fields it is a sense of the needless unhappiness from which men suffer and a pas- sionate longing to do my bit in formulating and dif- fusing a clearer intelligence concerning the art of living." Thus in his teaching he emphasized primarily problems of human conduct, drawing his illustrations fro an extraordinarily wide range of reading. Stimu- lating class discussions were often continued on Sunday afternoons when throughout the year he was at home to his students. Many of those who have gone forth from Vassar will always remember gratefully that beautiful and hospitable home. But it was as a writer that Durant Drake was most widely known. Eminently in his books he realized his "passionate desire" to formulate and diffuse "a clearer intelligence concerning the art of living." Their titles indicate how practical, in the broad sense of th t th i f h f hi ki P e erm, was e a m o muc o s thin ng: ro- blems of Conduct (19110, Problems of Reli ion (1‘§l'6JI 3haII We Btanﬁ B the Church? {I525}, America Faces the Ftture lI§§Z;, The New Horalit (l§23). The re- viewers of these boohs all prhise their lucidity, vigor, forceful and winning style, and persuasive sanity. The same qualities of style appear in his re- cent Invitation to Philoso h . His most abstract thinki was ex res H In hi d d It P1 i N t ng p se n an s_,_§ceL n a ure (1925), where he presents his metaphysical system, DURANT DRAKE (Continued) related to though not derived from the thought of Santayana and Charles Strong. It may truly be said of Durant Drake that his life and work, despite his physical limitations, fulfilled to an extraordinary degree its own high aims. Lucy E. Textor IX - 188 [ /
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Creator: Blado, Antonio
Date: 1524-1565

Date: n.d.
Text: The Role of the Ontario Troop Seymore Boughton Sergent Asa Ransom Gideon Pitts Frederick Rifford Daneile Gates Serg, John Sutherland Stephen Bates Corporal Samuel Pitts Clark Beck Corp Joseph Wait Daniel Wilder Corp Nathaniel Clark Samuel Warner Corp Joseph Wilder Nathan Walden Farris Sylvanus Conant Timothy Hopkinds Sadler Mathew Mannin William Antis Tsaack[?] Deane Grange Stone Samuel Adams Elijah Warner Joseph Adams Rufus East Abner Adams Seth Halcom J[?] Morehouse John Keyes Phenches...
Show moreThe Role of the Ontario Troop Seymore Boughton Sergent Asa Ransom Gideon Pitts Frederick Rifford Daneile Gates Serg, John Sutherland Stephen Bates Corporal Samuel Pitts Clark Beck Corp Joseph Wait Daniel Wilder Corp Nathaniel Clark Samuel Warner Corp Joseph Wilder Nathan Walden Farris Sylvanus Conant Timothy Hopkinds Sadler Mathew Mannin William Antis Tsaack[?] Deane Grange Stone Samuel Adams Elijah Warner Joseph Adams Rufus East Abner Adams Seth Halcom J[?] Morehouse John Keyes Phenches Taylor Jun Benjamin Gaus Ava Smith Jaffer Marvin Dyen Naft Julius Cantifs Jabiz[?] John Warren Timothy Younglove David Warner Benjamin Carson John Sutherland Abner Adams Stephen Taylor Levi Highley Samuel Heyden Ontario Troop
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Creator: Stanton, Elizabeth Cady, 1815-1902
Date: 20-Oct
Text: ﬁlm L318 91*‘ k¢_ﬁf§VTQ fgg F éS:3¥w§ In July, 1%, hi stry me:-as ‘ first maver at aazzezmg %* di s<:zms~in f téizeir litisal, * Swami wrrzggs. th A ga hm ext and mz<% my mother, ﬁrm ‘the zm:;2.fa? aauzrzt ri as and Ems ha :2 g V 3, in and and Erzer cl Elissa , :2; st M , 21% $8 % ?§'::3_it‘d Stat up , ":2. azld Sir? Saut h $13. we» Emva vtacf. by pmxy mveral M" ‘blew Md éﬁarlé far years. hi stry of ﬁmmean’s m'e.r.1g3 “i2:f3.@3S'@ :*1.eve2? haufg b@$3t; M...
Show moreﬁlm L318 91*‘ k¢_ﬁf§VTQ fgg F éS:3¥w§ In July, 1%, hi stry me:-as ‘ first maver at aazzezmg %* di s<:zms~in f téizeir litisal, * Swami wrrzggs. th A ga hm ext and mz<% my mother, ﬁrm ‘the zm:;2.fa? aauzrzt ri as and Ems ha :2 g V 3, in and and Erzer cl Elissa , :2; st M , 21% $8 % ?§'::3_it‘d Stat up , ":2. azld Sir? Saut h $13. we» Emva vtacf. by pmxy mveral M" ‘blew Md éﬁarlé far years. hi stry of ﬁmmean’s m'e.r.1g3 “i2:f3.@3S'@ :*1.eve2? haufg b@$3t; M fvarabl a “time ‘ta dam her lie e%L ‘E:$’:1i‘I:M iat i an in first tima in tfzizigs Raublie a far W ham fer 3 $1 it i 91 sidmt wh. ?;2.a3 riolam himself in favtzr sf °w% Ysrk hag We 2:1 Pmsidant Eassvalt was Gmmr f K tlfii ajzzfmmhi :3! int t}::s..*%ama:: f the t e in hi 8 :.%$§§ ?% gismm m, and ublia aoaagim. k fm°t?%,%1isa wt if ju% éefrmde f their mast cred ri gght , m that umderl ms all thaw , V6106 in ‘km laaa. am», aa aataara aaia “He . faraaé‘aitaaui aha sanaant af taa gav » aaaaahaaada b tha.Praaidant at Fitahburg am.L* aaa “ia.favar af an aaid that aa taa Uaitaa Stataa, aaafarriag additiaaal g ~ra1 gavw A1‘ tlrexj. f araaaai ta daal aaaa ca aaratiana.“ for taa aaat iataraata Ta aaaaral and raatraia_gia t aanapaliaa af all aha paaala ia af vaat iapart, but sf far waster iaaarﬁamaa ia aha aataaliahmaat and praﬁaetien.ef taa rights and libartzaa pbﬁr 3ay, ha eaa half taa paapla of the United Stataa —~ the aaat aaral half, tae ~» aaaa1y,*aaaaa. Suraly ta ra ia as gratarvmmn9pa1y'%haa.taat sf all aaa.ia daaying ta all aaaan a voioa ia.tha laws the ara aamaallaa taaby. Gatabara20, 1932. i1izabath.Cady Sta if ta 1 - «ms :5’ I“ '°’ ' ‘V ' 7: ,,x 1 V f('..=».~ -.=>—. ‘ A ' A Original in COPY Alma Lutz Collection Please Copy WOMEN APPEAL TO THE PRESIDENT. In July, 1848, history records the first movement among women for the discussion of their political, religious and social wrongs. Since then the demand for the right of suffrage has extended over many countries and has been granted, in one form or another, in the United States, in England and her colonies, in Australia, New Zealand, the Isle of Man and New South Wales. I Tax-paying women have voted by proxy in several nations of the Old World for many years. In the long history of woman's srongs there never has been so favorable a time to demand her complete emancipation in the United States as now, for we have for the first time in this Republic a President who has declared himself in favor of woman‘s political equality. When President Roosevelt was Governor of New York he recommended the enfranchisement of the women of the State in his message to the New York Legislature, and expressed the same opinion on several public occasions. Now is the opportune time for leading women to ask the President to make the same demand in his coming Message to Congress for this act of justice to thirty~six million American citizens new defrauded of their most sacred right, one that underlies all others, a voice in the laws. For, as the Fathers said long ago: “No just government can be formed without the consent of the governedg“ & In a speech made by the President at Fitchbnrg on Labor Day, he said that he was “in favor of an amendment to the Constitution of the the United States, conferring ndditionel power upon the feﬁerel government to deal with corporations." To control end restrain giant monopolies for the best interests of all the people is of vast import, but of far vaster importance is the establishment and protection of the rights end liberties of one half the people of the United States ~« the most moral half, too ~ namely, women. Surely there is no greater monopoly than that of ell men in denying to all women a voice in the laws they ere oomoelled to obeye Qotober 203 1902. Elisabeth Gndy Stanton. Note: This is a copy of the appeal written & prepared for mailing to the press by Mrs. Stanton e few days before her death. October 26, 1902. An envelope addressed to Oswald Villerd, Editor of the Nation is attached.
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Date: March 24, 2015

Date: 1899
Text: YF1 ION 4; $~§‘:‘vs":‘- 4'.2~Té¢~"‘ I/0 CA 1. xﬁfﬂ/A ( 5010 ) The Poem by Longfcl low. QR . ‘V ,5./' . I"I u.5‘1 c by forﬂprmo in C1 /‘bx///o In Eb Qcgézna//ray 3 77am,/wed/fa I/Z/I [£77/74/V/V. THEJOHNCIIURCH COMPANY. CINCINNATI. CHICAGO. NEWYORK. LEIPJIC . LONDON. Q 0'... '0’ 2 FOR S0PHA1V0. (Original key.) Endymion. Orchestral score and parts may be had of the Publishers. LONGFELLOW. LIZA LEHMANN. U11 poco lento, tranquillo assai.(J : 66.) 1) traizgzzzl/0...
Show moreYF1 ION 4; $~§‘:‘vs":‘- 4'.2~Té¢~"‘ I/0 CA 1. xﬁfﬂ/A ( 5010 ) The Poem by Longfcl low. QR . ‘V ,5./' . I"I u.5‘1 c by forﬂprmo in C1 /‘bx///o In Eb Qcgézna//ray 3 77am,/wed/fa I/Z/I [£77/74/V/V. THEJOHNCIIURCH COMPANY. CINCINNATI. CHICAGO. NEWYORK. LEIPJIC . LONDON. Q 0'... '0’ 2 FOR S0PHA1V0. (Original key.) Endymion. Orchestral score and parts may be had of the Publishers. LONGFELLOW. LIZA LEHMANN. U11 poco lento, tranquillo assai.(J : 66.) 1) traizgzzzl/0. The ris—ing m0on_______ has hid the stars, Her lev-el rays like old—en Copyright MDCCCXCIX by The John Church Company. International Copyright. Entered according to act of the Parliament of Canada in the year MDCCCXCIX by The John Church Company in the Department of Agriculture. on the landscape green Withshadows brown . And sil-ver _ white — _ j 1017 hr _ the riv—erg1eams, As if Di— a — ha, in her dreams, _Had dropp’d her si1— ver bow ____.__.._ ‘ Up— on the mead-ows bu, hf //000 m~e.s'(;. a fa/1///0. On such a tran — - quilnight as this, pa}? c7‘c.s’(:. She woke End-ymion with a VVhen slee ing in the in L ‘: L. z_;:_______’__,/ (z/we/.6 (ii///. = ' rz lam//0. He dreamed not of her love do/(re. 6 0'/III- P ml]. 1; 22005:. PP F " ‘("7" T:} . pz}? ///o.s:s'o.(J : 80.) > > Like Dian’s kiss un-ask-’d un_ 7120/lo V ., h //212 //10.5290. Love gives it-self, but is not bought, Voice n0r_. s0und_.______ be—trays L’!/2\ , / Andante ritenut0,un poco maestoso. mfma ( : 69.) can amplezza. comes, the beau-ti - ful, the free; of all hu-man-i _ wgf 6672 .9o.9fe7mz‘o. and Seek the 9 -1€Ct — ed ?——_—______ lifts the boughswhose shadows ‘ , ob—1ivi — on, the s0u1’s sleep, And > mil. 6 a’0lcz'.9.s'7'/no. kis - ses the clos ' who slum - ber?-ing pp mil. 6 (1 tw//po e molt. ()7'6.S‘{}. Oh, wea - ry hearts, Oh,slumb’ring fr/‘I2 resc. a iempo e moltcresc. f droop — ingsouls whose des — ti—nies Are fraught with fear (‘T .s'em,m‘c 12/7'1? (:7’c.s’(,~. _ shall be loved one is so ac-cursed by No one so ut - ter—ly > > des — o—1ate some heart, though un - known, molio mil. accel. e crew. ——______ 7 Re-sponds un - to__ his_ own, awe]. e cresc. Tempo I. (J : 69.) (la/(re. sponds 6 8 The accompaniment on the smaller staff can be used if preferred, but the chords should be Well “spread” to obtain the same effect as in the upper version. , 13153-14 a. M 6 T 6 ﬂ ._w H 0 0 Where? 8 2'1} cresc. 7; Where? calla 22006. V8 8""; calla woe. V8 stretto . long? streiio. Tempo I. ’ /2 .9w1/,'2/re ([1/21.. pp a trim//0 as.9az'tm2zqm’/lo. ra//. S67I}ﬂ7’6 dim. pa assai traizqzzillo. rail. 5021/” 5’ d1'7”~
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Creator: Pearson, Donald M., Swain, Barbara, Peirce, John M.
Date: [After 1957]
Text: E. HAROLD GEER 1886 - 1957 It was with genuine regret that we learned during the Christmas season of the sudden death of Profes- sor Emeritus E. Harold Geer at the age of seventy-one years, more than half of which were spent as a member of the Vassar faculty in the Department of Music. Those of us who knew him well respected his musician- ship, and his uncompromisingly high musical standards. He gave unstintingly of his service to the college as a teacher, organist, director of the Vassar...
Show moreE. HAROLD GEER 1886 - 1957 It was with genuine regret that we learned during the Christmas season of the sudden death of Profes- sor Emeritus E. Harold Geer at the age of seventy-one years, more than half of which were spent as a member of the Vassar faculty in the Department of Music. Those of us who knew him well respected his musician- ship, and his uncompromisingly high musical standards. He gave unstintingly of his service to the college as a teacher, organist, director of the Vassar Choir and of the Madrigal Group, and as chairman of the Music Department for a period of years after the resignation of Professor Dickinson from that position. Mr. Geer was born in Tabor, Iowa in 1886. He received the B. A. and M. A. degrees fro Doane College in Nebraska, and a Mus. B. degree from the Oberlin Con- servatory of Music in Ohio. In l9h9 Deane College bestowed upon him an honorary Mus. D. degree. He studied organ and composition with Widor and Gedalge in Paris, organ with T. Tertius Noble and piano with Ernest Hutcheson in this country, and composition and conducting at the Conservatoire Americain de Fontainebleau in France. Before coming to Vassar College Mr. Geer taught at Lake Erie College for Women in Ohio and at Albion Col- lege in Michigan. From 1913 to 1916 he was organist and choir director of the First Congregational Church in Fall River, Massachusetts. In 1916 he came to Vassar College as Assistant Professor of Music and taught here for thirty-six years. After his retire- ment in 1952 he went to Cbatham College in Pittsburgh. Subsequently he served as acting chairman of the Music Department at Hood College in Maryland. Last summer he taught at the Yale Music School in Norfolk, Connecticut. He was a member of the College Music Association, Pi Kappa Lamba and a Fellow of the American Guild of Organists. He edited and arranged over one hundred compositions of choral music for women's voices. He edited the beloved "Peace I Leave with You", originally harmonized by George Coleman Gow for women's voices. He also made an arrangement of this for mixed voices. Mr. Geer was editor of The H al for Collegasand Schools published in 1955 By %€e Yaie University Press and now in use in the Vassar Chapel. His last publication E. HAROLD GEER (Continued) was a book, Or an Registration in Theo and Practice, which came out last mnnth (December, IéE7I. The study of this subject was carried on by Mr. Gear for many years at Vassar College. Grants frm the Salmon Fund aided his research and the publication of the book. Mr. Geer gave organ recitals at the Prague Municipal Auditorium in Czechoslovakia and at York Minster, England. He had numerous appearances in recital in this country, playing programs of organ music in col- leges, universities, civic auditoriums and churches. His Sunday evening organ recitals on the Vassar Campus offered a wide variety of excellent literature skill- fully performed. To many generations of students these programs came to be known as "dark music" since they were performed in the dramatic setting of the dimly lighted chapel. Unquestionably Mr. Geer's primary musical interest at Vassar College was the Choir, which he directed from 1920 to 1952. He devoted scholarly research to the selection of choral material which represented the world's finest settings of sacred texts. The music he introduced ranged in style from the works of English composers in the,Renaissance Period to those of Vaughan Williams and Kodaly in the twentieth century. The insistent emphasis on superior music certainly had a great influence in improving the musical taste of students who sang it and heard it from the days of required chapel to a later time when chapel attendance was no longer obligatory. The music for the regular chapel services and for other programs was meticulously prepared and beautifully performed. Under Mr. Geer's direction the annual program of Christmas music became a tradition at Vassar College and attracted large audiences. To a casual acquaintance Mr. Geer may have seemed to be rather reserved and formal but h was certainly far from that when he conducted performances of the Gilbert and Sullivan operetta, "Trial by Jury" on Founder's Day. To those who were intimately associated with him he was a kind and understanding friend and excellent teacher. His perceptions were keen and he possessed a quick sense of humor. He was frank and outspoken, and even those who disagreed with him on policies he favored or with his methods of procedure, never doubted for a moment the sincerity of his convictions. E. HAROLD GEEK (Continued) Socially the Gear home on Raymond Avenue was always a friendly place to visit. The choir parties which Mr. and Mrs. Geer gave each year for choir members and faculty guests and the memorial Geer family Christmas cards, which Mr. Geer designed, will long be remembered. We extend to Mrs. Gear and to his surviving sons and daughter the sympathy of the faculty in their loss and express to them the appreciation of the faculty for professor Geer's long and distinguished service to Vassar College. Donald M. Pearson Barbara Swain John M. Peirce XIV - 375-376
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