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Title: from Mary L. Booth, 22 Feb 1864
Creator: Booth, Mary L.
Description: Request for prospectus
Date: February 22, 1864
Text: (…) Madison Ave. New York, Feb. 22/64 Gentlemen, I have been requested by a friend to procure a prospectives of the Vassar Female College for a gentleman from South America, who is desirous of placing his daughter in that institution when it opens. If you will be kind enough to send me one, with any particulars of interest, you will greatly oblige. Yours respectfully, Mary L. BoothMary L Borth July 22, N. York Application for pupil

Title: John Savage -- to Jasper Parrish, 1822 July 26
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

Title: Anthony, Susan B. -- to Mrs. Bowles, Aug 21, 1884
Creator: Anthony, Susan B. (Susan Brownell), 1820-1906
Date: 1884-08-21
Text: National Woman Suffrage Association. "Governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed;" the ballot is consent. Elizabeth Cady Stanton, president, Johnstown, n.y. Susan B. Anthony, Rochester, n. y. ■ Matilda Joslyn Gage, fayetteville, n. y. Phcebe W. Couzins, St. Louis, mo. Rev! Olympia Brown, racine, wis. Abigail Scott Duniway, Portland, Oregon. vice-presidents at large. May Wright Sewall, chairman ex. com., 405 n. Penn St., Indianapolis ind. Ellen H. Sheldon,...
Show moreNational Woman Suffrage Association. "Governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed;" the ballot is consent. Elizabeth Cady Stanton, president, Johnstown, n.y. Susan B. Anthony, Rochester, n. y. ■ Matilda Joslyn Gage, fayetteville, n. y. Phcebe W. Couzins, St. Louis, mo. Rev! Olympia Brown, racine, wis. Abigail Scott Duniway, Portland, Oregon. vice-presidents at large. May Wright Sewall, chairman ex. com., 405 n. Penn St., Indianapolis ind. Ellen H. Sheldon, rec. seg., Q.m.-Genl's Office, Washington, d. C. Rachel G. Foster, cor. sec., Philadelphia, pa. Jane H. Spofford, treas., riggs house, Washington, d. c. Johnstown Fulton Co. -N.Y. Aug. 21, 1884 My Dear Mrs. Bowles I see by the Woman's Journal- that you are preaching but 10 miles from birth place- South Adams- and I write you to say that I want you to set down in your note book- Washington National W.L. Convention- for 1885- date last of Jan. or early in Feb !!!- And prepare yourself for two speeches-one to women and the people- and one to our official Committees - a Congress! I have long wanted you to be present at one of our Wash. Cons- and if you cannot afford the cost of this journey- we will help you on that- & pay your local expenses
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Title: Class Day -- 1927 (1 of 4)
Creator: Wolven, E. L. (Edmund L.)
Date: 1927

Title: to Sarah L. Stilson, 18 Jun 1866
Creator: Vassar, Matthew, 1792-1868
Date: June 18, 1866
Text: Springside Monday June 18th, 1866 My Dear Stilson The printer (Mr. Osborn) of your beautiful little gem compositions “Hill of Jekyl” was delivered me (200) copies on Saturday evening, but too late to send them to you. I forward the same this morning by the “College post Boy” I think you will be pleased with the typographical & mechanical executions. I only regret their tedious delay, I trust you will meet with ready patronage in this first effort for literary fame. I remain dear Miss G....
Show moreSpringside Monday June 18th, 1866 My Dear Stilson The printer (Mr. Osborn) of your beautiful little gem compositions “Hill of Jekyl” was delivered me (200) copies on Saturday evening, but too late to send them to you. I forward the same this morning by the “College post Boy” I think you will be pleased with the typographical & mechanical executions. I only regret their tedious delay, I trust you will meet with ready patronage in this first effort for literary fame. I remain dear Miss G. Your friend &c Matthew Vassar P.S. I have retained 25 copies for distribution among my friends
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Title: Dwight, William Buck, 1833-1906 -- Memorial Minute:
Creator: Cooley, Le Roy C., Whitney, Mary W., Wylie, Laura J.
Description
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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Title: Pease, Julia M. -- to mother, Feb. 1871:
Creator: Pease, Julia M
Description: VC 1875
Date: February 3, 1871
Text: Vassar College. Feb. 3. 1871. My dear Mamma, It quite amazes me to leara that you still continue to write to your daughter who is so far away. I should think you would forget that you even had another child, aad have ao doubt but that you would If it were not for the frequent letters she seada you. Your letters I perceive are gettiag soon shorter and shorter and I shall not be at all surprised If they willAbe monthly Instead of weekly ones. I write home almost always twice a week and never...
Show moreVassar College. Feb. 3. 1871. My dear Mamma, It quite amazes me to leara that you still continue to write to your daughter who is so far away. I should think you would forget that you even had another child, aad have ao doubt but that you would If it were not for the frequent letters she seada you. Your letters I perceive are gettiag soon shorter and shorter and I shall not be at all surprised If they willAbe monthly Instead of weekly ones. I write home almost always twice a week and never send a letter less than four pages long and generally receive in return eight pages, once a week and sometimes not as often. And there are three persons at home to write and so much to tell of interest to mei Then the amount of wool and ivory you keep about you ought to prevent you from having anything to do* The thought of staying here and graduating had never seriously entered my head, although we oftea talk of who will be our valedlctorlaa fee. la our class. But last week Prof. Vaa Ingen our drawing teacher was trying to persuade me to stay and now your letter speaking of my doing so has come. I want to remain one moreyear aad caa tell then whether I wish to come back agaia. It depends very much upon how I get onin my classes. If I could graduate la three years I would fee to do so but if I must come four, I do aot care to. I shall study next summer aad If by doing so I can enter_Sophmore, I shall be very happy for then It will Feb. 2, 1871 - 3 only take three years to graduate. Mr. Smith is very kind, and it will be very pleasant lor me to have a friend among the trustees of the Col* lege, but fear he will forget all about me before next June. I have looked in the catalogue and find his name but among so many had never noticed it before. My examination In French came off yesterday morning. Our class did very nicely and I think nearly all have passsd. Without any conceit I can say that I am sure that X passed. I would have done miserably if X had not when Hfcave studied French so much before. X really feared the examination very much although I need not have done so, for more than but our teacher half the time we were being examined there was no one In the roomAand the rest of the time Mademoiselle and one other teacher were there. I have Just come from my last Latin examination, and am ashamed to say how badly X recited. We were examined for an hour and a quarter this morning on the Latingrammar and I dhink X did pretty well and all the others In the class did remarkably well, but unfortunately there was ihtf no one In the room but our teacher to hear our recitation; and this afternoon when we did not recite nesrly as well there were five persons in the room at one time! Our lesson this sftemoon was the first two books of Caesar to translste; of course we did not expect to go over It all; but we teacher were to be prepared upon all, because we did not know what ourAwould ask. She gave out the topics a few moments before each one recited her chapter so that she might have time to read her part over; that Iswhen Miss A. Feb. 3, 1871 - 3 commenced rending, she would tell Mies B. what chapter she was expected to read. Our teacher Miss Lord gave Miss Nelson who sits next me a certain chapter to road and when her turn came to do it, she said that she could not. Than Miss Lord turned to me and said "Miss Pease you may read it without any preparations." I got up and managed to stumble through Its but almost made a "fiaale," as a failure Is graphicly described at this college. The chapter was a very hard one but I could have read it well, if I had only had a few minutes to look it overt and was almost the only one which X could not have read without any hesitation. I was very sorry that X didnot do better for the Prof, of I*atin was In the room at the time* also one of the teachers that X like very much, and X think Miss Lord was disappointed In me. X shall not ask you again to write oftener to me, because of course, X do not want you to write unless you wish to. With love to all goodnightI have written Carrie a short trench latter, "just for fun." X hope she will be able to read It. My roommate has just told me that she was informed that X did "splendidly" in Latin. X am sure that I did not, but it may not have been as bad as X thought. X fear that I will have to have a now dress soon as I am II quite destitute, andAX do have one it will have to be made but X will wait and see what you say about it. Feb. 3, 1871 • 4 in Poughkeepsle A
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Title: from Edwin Morton, Jr., 31 Jan 1861
Creator: Kelly, William
Date: January 31, 1861
Text: 1st May 1861 Dear Sir: You have done a splendid thing. A Truly splendid thing, because it [shines]: a nice entrance to [mine] Matthew Vassar Esq. Poughkeepsie N.Y.together & tonight into the perfect day. It will [make] for, little difference to you, …, That I glory in a country than, who has done what could really … … the reign of the best

Title: Aaron, Fannie -- to Father and Mother, March 10,1920
Creator: Aaron, Fannie
Date: 3/10/20
Text: Dear Father + Mother, I am very busy, otherwise nothing new. THe history quiz( ) was moderately hard. You probably would not send the laundry, even if I did, not say not to. Nope the telegram was satisfactory. Love, Fannie March 10Mr. + Mrs. Marcus Aaron 402 S. Winebiddle Ave Pittsburgh, Pa.

Title: Aaron, Fannie -- to Mother, Father, and Pete, April 23, 1922 [postmarked April 10, 1922]
Creator: Aaron, Fannie
Date: April 23, 1922 [postmarked 10 Apr 1922]
Text: Expect to finish my Ren. topic today - one [qut] of the way. Love, Fannie[This side of card is for address]

Title: MacCoy, Marjorie Newell -- to Family, 8 November 1908
Creator: MacCoy, Marjorie Newell
Description: VC 1911
Date: 8 November 1908

Title: Aaron, Fannie -- to Pop, February 10, 1923 [?]
Creator: Aaron, Fannie
Date: 1923-02-10 [?]
Text: Dear Mother + Father: It is warm + [pouing] + I have spring fever - can hardly stay awake in classes. Keats paper due tomorrow. Zo written Friday. Debate practice to-morrow and Friday. Jeannette F. in addition [aunouiises] herself for Friday, Sat., + Sunday. She will have to take care of herself. I fear. Practice last night was more hopeful than it has been. In answer to your question as to visitors. I think it the height of absurdity for Father to come all the way from Pgh. to hear me talk...
Show moreDear Mother + Father: It is warm + [pouing] + I have spring fever - can hardly stay awake in classes. Keats paper due tomorrow. Zo written Friday. Debate practice to-morrow and Friday. Jeannette F. in addition [aunouiises] herself for Friday, Sat., + Sunday. She will have to take care of herself. I fear. Practice last night was more hopeful than it has been. In answer to your question as to visitors. I think it the height of absurdity for Father to come all the way from Pgh. to hear me talk for 18 minutes on a subject on which I am comparatively uninformed. To answer the question you asked: - it will not make me more [n]ervous, for the simple reason that I am already nervous - generally - and [tence] when I speak I am nervous at first, even in practice. I seem to have lost my former self composure in debating. In inter-class nothing phased me. I hope I get over it in the next 2 wks - our negative team is not strong enough to stand such silliness. But as to poor old marse - I love him too much to allow him to sit thru 2 hours of boredom. I can just see the expression on his face! He would prefer a good "show". Moreover, he would dis-course forever after to me on the folly of being a highbrow, of studying "Latin, Algebra etc." [Suit] yourself, but don'tyou think it terribly foolish? Mother, by no means come, I felt guilty in keeping you away the 4 extra days up here, so please stay home now. Let me know your conclusion, Father. Remember that we will practice Sat. morning in the Barnard Theatre, and probably will be entertained by B. Sat. aft. + Sun-day. - at least, if we aren't, we should be. V. does that for visitors, anyhow. So I wouldn't be able to loaf with you. Let me know your [concbesion]. You + Marse are welcome - if you cough up 35� admission to say nothing of the [Pa.v.v] fare - but don't be foolish in your enthusiasm for little [Buuy]. <To Mother: Don't bother - will get it made at Luckey's skirts for debate, + I always have a hard hunt to find one big enough around the waist to borrow. Thea - everybody's is dirty this time of yr. We don't mind that here, but I didn't want to wear a grayish one away. So I tho't the least trouble would be to buy one + feel comfortable in one that isn't pinned around the waist. And I thought also the most satisfactory would be to have Miss [Willowbrand wake] it - she has my measurements - the last skirt she made still fits - If you [tha't] it unwise < > turn up the him, I could have that done [heree]><at an alteration shop in one day. She could make a white flannel pleated skirt - spring model - I don't suppose there is much of a change in the style from last yr. IF you think this is impractical, I'll try to buy one here, but I imagine it will be hard to get 1 ready - made so early in the spring + I hardly have the time to hunt. Wire me immediately if you don't think having it made at home would work, + I'll try then to get it here. (12 inches from ground - I'll send a white skirt in my laundry that could be used as waist + length guide). Pleated I guess is best, unless they aren't being used anymore. It would have to be here by Thursday A.M. at the latest if not hemmed - otherwise P.M. We leave Friday. Remember she always makes them with 1 fitting + usually they don't mean much change. R.S.V.P. by wire if I should try around here.> Thanks, Father, for your arguments. We are using them, but one can't talk 21 minutes on moral obligation. We need facts on their incompetence + there seems to be a scarcity of dope on that. My speech is to be on ec. dangers + incompetence. (That from my "ickle" brain!) What do you think the danger to the Ph. from Japan under absolute independence would be? The 4 - powers treaty would protect them from being grabbed, but not from Ec. ag-gression. On the other hand, they aren't protected from the latter now. I don't know - do you. As a business man of sound judgment, we would like your opinion. We hesitate to intrude upon your time, but we do so because we realize how splendid is your attitude toward college women - Haha! Please let me know - seriously. I am writing this while having my hair dried - I had to take time off for a shampoo. I have this awe-inspiring con-ference with Miss Ellery to talk over my makeup for tonight. I tremble at a class of one - intellectually-minded or not! What date is J [Einstein's] wedding? I lost the clipping which I carefully [join] aside. R.S.V.P. The bank check have come, also blue dress. I am taking the medicine without belladonna, successfully - thank goodness. <Which> remeinds me please put in a cork in the next laundry that will fit the woods drug-store bottle (you have 1 too). I want to be able to take it away with me, _ the dropper cork is very loose. That will save time for me. Let me know if you have done so soon. Love Fannie
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Title: Aaron, Fannie -- to Mother, Father, and Pete, January 18,1920
Creator: Aaron, Fannie
Date: 1/18/20
Text: January 18, 1920. Dear Mother, Father, and Pete: It just occured to me that this is the first time I have written the date right. I got back a little after six last night. I took the care out to college last night. I wanted to see which way bumps less, but it is sixes and sixes, I think. I went to bed then and slept from chapel time till seven thirty this morning, waking up only for the return of the college from the concert. After breakfast I got an airing. I then reviewed some more for my...
Show moreJanuary 18, 1920. Dear Mother, Father, and Pete: It just occured to me that this is the first time I have written the date right. I got back a little after six last night. I took the care out to college last night. I wanted to see which way bumps less, but it is sixes and sixes, I think. I went to bed then and slept from chapel time till seven thirty this morning, waking up only for the return of the college from the concert. After breakfast I got an airing. I then reviewed some more for my Latin exam. I shall now take the Math quizz. This afternoon I shall study some more for the exams--review, not cram, you understand. Love, F.[enc w/ 18 Jan 1920] Dear Mother, I had some day yesterday--I thought my insides would burn out. Aunt Bessie says that is a sign of improvement--perhaps, I don't know. The doctor says he saw a material improvement, about as much better as I felt. I am very glad I came back and did not stay in N. Y. over night, as I felt not one bit worse off, and it was not quite worn off yet. It is a good thing I went to sleep last night early. He told me I behave very well for the treatment! He also told Aunt Bessie I am very plucky--he generally hates to have a young girl come in there because they make too much fuss about themselves. That is all I know.
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Title: Thom, Katherine Bissell 1910
Creator: Thom, Katherine Bissell

Title: At top of tower, on west end of north wall [location: D4]
Descriptor(s): Taylor, Steven
Description: Projecting; wolf head?; feathers? on cheeks; eagle wings; front legs
Date: 2017-06-01

Title: Nancy Dickinson -- to Mrs. Jasper Parrish, 1834 Dec 28
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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Title: Class Day -- 1936 (5 of 5)
Creator: Wolven, E. L. (Edmund L.)
Date: 1936

Title: 1st Hall Play -- 1921 (6 of 9)
Creator: Wolven, E. L. (Edmund L.)
Date: 1921

Title: Founder's Day Play -- 1923 (6 of 9)
Creator: Wolven, E. L. (Edmund L.)
Date: 1923

Title: Founder's Day -- 1927 (1 of 5)
Creator: Wolven, E. L. (Edmund L.)
Date: 1927

Title: Mansfield, Adelaide -- to mother, Jan. 2, 1895:
Creator: Mansfield, Adelaide (Claflin)
Description: VC 1897
Date: January 2, 1895
Text: Vassar College. J an. 2. 1895. My dear Mother, — That Is the first time I have written 1895. How queer It seems/ I am just going to write you a few lines this morning, to go on the nine oclock mail, if possible. I got a letter from Mary MacColl yesterday, telling me that she cannot come back to college for the rest of this year. She was not well all summer aad really was not strong enough to come in September, but she prevailed upon them to let her. She is very nervous, and has something the...
Show moreVassar College. J an. 2. 1895. My dear Mother, — That Is the first time I have written 1895. How queer It seems/ I am just going to write you a few lines this morning, to go on the nine oclock mail, if possible. I got a letter from Mary MacColl yesterday, telling me that she cannot come back to college for the rest of this year. She was not well all summer aad really was not strong enough to come in September, but she prevailed upon them to let her. She is very nervous, and has something the matter with her back* they were afraid of curvature of the spine. We are very, very sorry that she cannot come back, for she is a splendidgirl, and we will miss her very much. Poor girl, it such a disappointment to her, for she worked so hard to get to college. She has been to school only at district school, and all that we took in High School, she studied by herself, without a teacher except when her brother helped her. She has the Scotch persistency in with her Scotch blood. Mary may possibly come back next September, but I doubt it. She asked me to pack the rest of her clothes and things and send to her, and that I am going to do today. Time is flying so, I do wish we had two or three weeks more. There is so much that I should like to do. I have spent most of the vacation in being lazy- I sent those flannels home because I did not need them. They are the ones I left here last year. The smaller one I have notworn at all, because I have plenty of others of the same thickness, and I have a new one like the larger one, which I think will not need to be washed for I wear it over another one, and so I don't need any more to take its place. You know I brought a stack of flannels, as Edie said, enough to furnish an army. H you send Horace's Satires I will be very glad. Does Lou want Cicero's De Senectute before the end of January? I will be using one till then, but if she wants it before, I will send it to her, and use Mary's for the rest of the time. The trigonometry that I sent they do not use here, so I could not sell it. I sent Lou my old fountain pen Monday. I hope she will get it all right. If she cannot make it write at first tell her to screw off the piece that the pen is in, and pour water throughit. It worked very well for me. I have made a pair of bedroom slippers which I intend to give you for your birthday, but I have concluded to send them now so that you will have the benefit of them during this winter. You so often walk around the house early in the morning, or at night, that I thought you might make a good deal of use of a pair. And you can wear them to bed on very cold nights, to keep your feet warm. When you wear these out, I will make you another pair. I will send these today. We watched the Old Year out on Clarence's birthday.- four girls and myself. Then as it was too late to go over to Strong they all came up and slept here. There is going to be a candy pull tonight, for all the girls here - and I suppose it will be lots of fun. With love to all, Adelaide. £laflin,
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Title: Sophomore Party (Class of 1934) -- Oct 1931 (3 of 11)
Creator: Wolven, E. L. (Edmund L.)
Date: Oct 1931

Title: Sea Hath its Pearls, The, The Sea Hath its Pearls
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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Title: Georgianna Watson: Vassar College English professor, 1866-1869 and associate librarian, 1869-1870
Creator: Notman, William
Description: Head and shoulders oval picture of Georgianna Watson wearing a black choker and light-colored, button-down clothing.
Date: between 1866 and 1870

Title: Aaron, Fannie -- to Mother, Father, and Pete, May 11,1920
Creator: Aaron, Fannie
Date: 5/11/20
Text: May 11, 1920. Dear Mother, Father, and Pete: I am going to see Professor Moulton in his office hours this afternoon to see what the dope on chemistry is. Everybody tells me that the 3 and 4 course is much easier than baby chem, and that lots of people take it who had their elementary work in high school several years before. I shall see. I have decided, after careful consideration, that I will take Math. My reason is that I am afraid of making my course to stiff next year, and I think that...
Show moreMay 11, 1920. Dear Mother, Father, and Pete: I am going to see Professor Moulton in his office hours this afternoon to see what the dope on chemistry is. Everybody tells me that the 3 and 4 course is much easier than baby chem, and that lots of people take it who had their elementary work in high school several years before. I shall see. I have decided, after careful consideration, that I will take Math. My reason is that I am afraid of making my course to stiff next year, and I think that Math will be the easiest subject. Mother, the only reason I would stay Commencement would be so that you would come up for your reunion. I think it is a decided shame for you to miss it. Commencement itself is not until Tuesday, and I finish exams Friday afternoon. What date does the reunion start? Would it do you any good to come up and stay till Sunday afternoon? I don't care a bit about commencemtn. Next year will be the year that I will want to stay. The fun that the non-Seniors get out of staying is the good time they have loafing around, picnics, etc. and of course I cannot do any of that, so I would not have much fun staying. I do want you to get some of your reunion, anyhow. I have plenty of work on hand. I don't know why it should pile up so. Everybody expects you to spend more time in her department than in any other, and the result is that none are satisfied. Otherwise, there is nothing new. The Math Club are having their farewell picnic on Sunset tomorrow. The Freshmen are invited. I am afraid to go. The Republican convention is tonight. Sorry I have not more dope on the subject. Various eminemtn Juniors and Seniors have been impersonating the candidates, dressed in men's clothes, and making stump speeches. Love, I should like very much to meet you in New York, but it is out of the question, particularly inasmuch as it is the week-end before exams. I felt so badly after coming back that I would not dare to risk it. I am surprised that you ask whether I want to go to prom or not. Of course I have been looking forward to it for ages, but unless I feel better than I do now, I could not dream of risking it. It is an effort just to go to classes and so the little things I have to do--I think dancing would be far from beneficial. I would not go under any circumstances without the doctor's consent.
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Title: Aaron, Fannie -- to Mother, Father, and Pete, January 21,1923
Creator: Aaron, Fannie
Date: 1923-01-21
Text: January 21, 1923 Dear Mother, Father, and Pete: This is the first Sunday morning this year I have gotten up in time for breakfast--hope the rest of the day continues as energetic. I am about to return to that darn philosphy, and am deferring the dreaded momentas long possible. The coasting wonderful yesterday, from the very topcof Sunset to the bottom without stopping once. I did that for an hour and a half, and spent the rest of the afternoon philosophying. Heard a punk lecture on the...
Show moreJanuary 21, 1923 Dear Mother, Father, and Pete: This is the first Sunday morning this year I have gotten up in time for breakfast--hope the rest of the day continues as energetic. I am about to return to that darn philosphy, and am deferring the dreaded momentas long possible. The coasting wonderful yesterday, from the very topcof Sunset to the bottom without stopping once. I did that for an hour and a half, and spent the rest of the afternoon philosophying. Heard a punk lecture on the political situation in Great Britain last night, by Mr. A. P. Wilson, former member of Parliament. He is without doubt the worst public speaker I have ever heard. Our Tolerance class are up in arms about the injustice of giving us that exam paper one week before it is due, when we have to prepare for all our other exams the same week. If we had done any work all semester we could kick, but this way we don't feel we can. There are six questions, each a semester topic in itself. It certainly takes the joy out of life. Wishing you otherwise, I am, Your overworked Earickeloo Let me know if you still plan to stay in New York.
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Title: Arrow and Song, The, The Arrow and The Song
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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Title: Death of Chibiabos
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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Title: Ann (Bennett) Vassar: mother of Matthew Vassar
Creator: Wolven, Edmund L.
Description: Half-length picture of Ann Vassar as an elderly woman wearing a sheer white cap, fringed shawl and black, long-sleeved clothing. She is seated, holding a handkerchief and small box.
Date: 19--?

Title: Adams, Ruth -- to family, n.d.:
Creator: Adams, Ruth
Description
Date: n.d.
Text: You will be relieved to hear that my trunk has at last turned up. I found it down at the station being held for .30 COD charges. I was perfectly furious. They might at least have let me know but apparently they would have kept it on indefinitely. Nothing has been broken. I had economies today. He has given lesson for Wed.- so cheering for what it will be when we really get to working. R.M.A.Mrs. Geo B. Adams 57 Edgehill Road New Haven Conn.

Title: Miscellaneous financial notes, 1826 n.d.
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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Title: Eldridge, Muriel (Tilden) -- to Mother, circa 12 May 1913
Creator: Eldridge, Muriel (Tilden)
Description: VC 1914
Date: circa 12 May 1913

Title: Babbott, Lydia Pratt, 1880
Creator: Babbott, Lydia Pratt

Title: Picking Daisies -- 1936 (4 of 6)
Creator: Wolven, E. L. (Edmund L.)
Date: 1936

Title: Tree Ceremonies (Class of 1938) -- 1936 (1 of 7)
Creator: Wolven, E. L. (Edmund L.)
Date: 1936

Title: Aaron, Fannie -- to Mother, Father, and Pete, January 14, 1919 [1920]
Creator: Aaron, Fannie
Date: 1919-01-14 [1920]
Text: January 14, 1919. [1920] Dear Mother, Father, and Pete: It is delightful to save your chapel cuts till the end of the semester and then stay home every night and get a chance to write the daily letter then. I got away from the doctor's office at a little after two today. Dr. B. gave me the punch. I then came back to my room and went over one sixth of the ground we are supposed to review for the Latin exam with Phyllis' roommate. She is very good in class, but she certainly was punk...
Show moreJanuary 14, 1919. [1920] Dear Mother, Father, and Pete: It is delightful to save your chapel cuts till the end of the semester and then stay home every night and get a chance to write the daily letter then. I got away from the doctor's office at a little after two today. Dr. B. gave me the punch. I then came back to my room and went over one sixth of the ground we are supposed to review for the Latin exam with Phyllis' roommate. She is very good in class, but she certainly was punk in review. I got along very well working with Phyllis for two years, but it must have been unusual. She is the next best in the class to me, if not as good, as far as marks go, but I could not hand her much today. I then had gym. Today was apparatus day. There was not much to do. One of the things I could not get at all, and that was hanging on to rings, turning over, and sticking the legs in the ring. I did manage to twist a summersault around a pole, though. Saturday night is the third Philharmonic concert. I got my ticket, but I am afraid I shall have to miss it. Last week I went to bed right after dinner. The New York day is none too easy. I wonder if I will have Miss Wells next semester. I certainly hope so, but she may get the class in analyt. geometry. Yes Pete, we wre one of the seven hundred institutions of learning, but the New York Times did not consider us worth cracking up along with Yale, Harvard, and Princeton. There were speeches in chapel the night before, but not knowing that chapel was to be more attractice than usual, I used one of my wonderful cuts. I shall go to chapel during exams, though. I shall need it then! They say it rests the spirit wonderfully then. Aunt Hattie was right that they give fiendish assignments fro vactaion[sic] to Midyears. By the way, you are coming down after midyears, are you not? R. S. V. P. Love, [Fannie]
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Title: Clippings, 1803, n.d.
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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Title: Stanton, Elizabeth Cady -- to Mrs. Holloway, 1889
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

Title: Alumnae Parade -- 1928 (4 of 5)
Creator: Wolven, E. L. (Edmund L.)
Date: 1928

Title: Aaron, Fannie -- to Mother, Father, and Pete, n.d. [ca February 5, 1923]
Creator: Aaron, Fannie
Date: n.d. [ca. 1923-02-05]
Text: [ca. 5 Feb 1923] Dear Mother, Father, and Pete: You must have forgotten to enclose the enclosure you mentioned, Mother. I stopped the cold effectively. So I will come down unless notified to the contrary. I should like to see either Peer Gynt of the Moscow Art Theater. The latter won't be in N. Y. much longer, so if it appeals to you, it ought to be worth while. Everyone is very enthusiastic. If not, let's see Peer Gynt. Also "Six Characters, etc". I'm sorry about...
Show more[ca. 5 Feb 1923] Dear Mother, Father, and Pete: You must have forgotten to enclose the enclosure you mentioned, Mother. I stopped the cold effectively. So I will come down unless notified to the contrary. I should like to see either Peer Gynt of the Moscow Art Theater. The latter won't be in N. Y. much longer, so if it appeals to you, it ought to be worth while. Everyone is very enthusiastic. If not, let's see Peer Gynt. Also "Six Characters, etc". I'm sorry about Taxation, Pete. Don't you think there was any chance of passing? Do they flunk an indefinite number? I hope you had better luck than you think. I could smash Riley's bean. I never heard of such a marking system. Some of the kids are trying to persuade me to go and ask him about my mark, because he said he would be glad to explain them, but I'm too proud. It's awful to care and not to care about marks at the same time! I am going to do a Tolerance short topic on Socinus, the founder of Uniterianism. If I had had the sense to do Erasmus I could have combined that with Renaissance, but I didn't think fastenough. Debate preparation will only be three weeks this year. So I think I shall do it. The Penn debate is April 13, and the Williams debate about the twentieth. I wrote to Aunt Bessie that I would not go to Placid, using debate as an excuse. Love, Fannie
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Title: from Sarah L. Stilson, 12 Oct 1867
Creator: Stilson, Sarah L.
Date: October 12, 1867
Text: Martinsburgh Oct. 12, 1867 Mr. M. Vassar: Honored Friend, The beautiful book “Vassar College and the Founder” has safely arrived at last and I am delighted with it. I have shown it to a number and the work is universally admired. The particulars you give of the opening of the College year are very interesting. It seems to me like news from home to hear from Vassar. And sometimes when I fall to thinking of it I almost long for wingsthat I might be there. But we live in a practical world, a ...
Show moreMartinsburgh Oct. 12, 1867 Mr. M. Vassar: Honored Friend, The beautiful book “Vassar College and the Founder” has safely arrived at last and I am delighted with it. I have shown it to a number and the work is universally admired. The particulars you give of the opening of the College year are very interesting. It seems to me like news from home to hear from Vassar. And sometimes when I fall to thinking of it I almost long for wingsthat I might be there. But we live in a practical world, a “working-day would” and wings are not given us till we change this practical for the etherial. And oh! how much there is to be done in the world! What a mighty mission for every one! It seems sensitive, if one spends a life from without harming any one or doing one wrong act, still if he be simply negative and silently idle when life has such a million calls, then great is his crime, in the eyes of angels and God. May you live long to enjoy the fulfillments of your life-hopes. With the best wishes I am Your young Friend Sarah L. Stilson
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Title: Shipp, Margaret M. -- to Family, 5 October 1902
Creator: Shipp, Margaret M.
Description: VC 1905
Date: 5 October 1902

Title: Commencement -- 1921 (1 of 2)
Creator: Wolven, E. L. (Edmund L.)
Date: 1921

Title: "Who Was Elizabeth Cady Stanton? My Mother," part 2, n.d.
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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Title: Griffith, Caroline -- from [Helen Ramlow], April 18, 1880
Creator: [Ramlow, Helen?]
Date: 18 Apr 1880
Text: Rome, April 18. 1880 My Dear Carrie I was very glad to hear [throug to?] your very welcome letter, that you are still in the “land of the living,” and that you still enjoy “[free?]” and the “good things of this world” as well as in the days of “auld lang syne “ at [...]. Yes, I should be most delighted to see you at my house in Cincinnati, but I am afraid it is beyond my power, as I should have to travel night & day to reach there before you. Yes, I have been abroad now nearly a year, - a...
Show moreRome, April 18. 1880 My Dear Carrie I was very glad to hear [throug to?] your very welcome letter, that you are still in the “land of the living,” and that you still enjoy “[free?]” and the “good things of this world” as well as in the days of “auld lang syne “ at [...]. Yes, I should be most delighted to see you at my house in Cincinnati, but I am afraid it is beyond my power, as I should have to travel night & day to reach there before you. Yes, I have been abroad now nearly a year, - a year in June - We traveled during the summer, - we was my sister, brother & his wife and myself - in Sept. my brother went home, while my sister & I spent the winter near Paris. This spring we have spent in travelling in Spain and as far in Italy as Naples, so your letter reached us, as you feared, neither in Boston nor Cincinnati but here in Rome. It seems almost like a dream to hear about the girls at Vassar, so many of the girls that we know so well have left. I have heard from one there for two years at least - Why did you leave? - You were so sure of going through & graduating in the same class with Blanche [...], that I surely thought you would do so, and had heard nothing to the contrary. Do you remember Miss O’Leary? I wonder if she is still as sweet as ever and if she ever studied to be a Dr. as she said she was going to do - How I wish that I was going to see you and talk over “old times,” but since that cannot be, I hope that I may see you again sometimes in [Cin?] and in the mean time, and if you care to write, I hope you will realize how gladly I will receive any [...]s from you. My address here is Lovingly Care of Monroe & Co. Your old friend & chum Bankers of the 47 Paris Helen Rawson
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Title: Marshall, Katherine (Manson) — to Emma Stewart, February 11, 1910
Creator: Marshall, Katherine (Manson)
Date: 11 Feb 1910
Text: Dear Em: How many of the buildings do you know? I think you might write me in a while. When I was home I wrote every week. Am turning into a regular grind this semester. Something awful! Manse. [Katherine Manson Marshall, VC 1910][Printed: POST CARD] [Postmarked: POUGHKEEPSIE, N.Y. 1--30 PM FEB 11-10] Miss Emma Stewart Box 632 c / o M. [C?] Steward Virginia Minn. [g. Mary Thom. Lovejoy (VC 1939)]

Title: Fitt, Harriet (Bradley) — to mother, February 15, 1910
Creator: Fitt, Harriet (Bradley)
Date: 15 Feb 1910
Text: Vassar College. Feb 15 - 10 Dearest Mother - I am not going to New York this week, especially as you prefer that I should not. Two dozen lovely red roses came from Annapolis today, with Judge’s card. Was it not thoughtful of him? They are quite fresh. Almost every one has flowers today, andchapel was full of them tonight. I like this sample very much indeed, Mother. I cannot think of any thing now which ought to be sent ahead. This can only be a line because I have too much work to do for...
Show moreVassar College. Feb 15 - 10 Dearest Mother - I am not going to New York this week, especially as you prefer that I should not. Two dozen lovely red roses came from Annapolis today, with Judge’s card. Was it not thoughtful of him? They are quite fresh. Almost every one has flowers today, andchapel was full of them tonight. I like this sample very much indeed, Mother. I cannot think of any thing now which ought to be sent ahead. This can only be a line because I have too much work to do for tomorrow. The entire afternoon was taken up with going to Mrs K’s office, dressing for gymclass drill, bathing and a trip to the infirmary. At that rate not much is done. Besides, they gave us such an extremely strenuous class drill that we are all exhausted, which is not the best thing. I could not find my overshoes after dinner, which made me late in starting for chapel. I ran the entire way and caught up with the “main body” but forty girls were shut out. I was the fortieth. We all managed to get into the gallery, however before they closed those doors, and I think our excused will be accepted. I love you both so much, dear ones. Tonight is almost homesick, but it is because I am tired. Lovingly, Harriet. Monday night.
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Title: Aaron, Fannie -- to Mother, Father, and Pete, n.d. [postmarked March 8, 1920]
Creator: Aaron, Fannie
Date: n.d. [postmarked 1920-03-08]
Text: [postmarked 8 march 1920] Dear Mother, Father, and Pete: I have not time to write much today. My long-hoped for English conference comes in a few minutes. I got a good deal done yesterday, but not as much as I had hoped for. I will have a great deal to do today. No one can see Miss Smith today, as luck would have it. Nevertheless I am going to the station this afternoon and take my chances on getting permission to get away all right and order my berth. Miss Landon was not home yesterday...
Show more[postmarked 8 march 1920] Dear Mother, Father, and Pete: I have not time to write much today. My long-hoped for English conference comes in a few minutes. I got a good deal done yesterday, but not as much as I had hoped for. I will have a great deal to do today. No one can see Miss Smith today, as luck would have it. Nevertheless I am going to the station this afternoon and take my chances on getting permission to get away all right and order my berth. Miss Landon was not home yesterday afternoon. I met Lucy on campus yesterday. She has had a great desire all year to sleep in Helen's and Ruth's doubledecker bed, and Saturday night her wish was fulfilled. She fell out of the top in her sleep and got pretty badly banged up, but not hurt. She says she is going to pack my trunk and go to the station with me. We ill see. Her good-will is might nice, but it is a joke. I had hoped to have you special delivery letter before going to town, but it is not here yet. Has Aunt Hattie's "Horace" a vocabulary? Answer if you can. If it is, I will not have to bring my dictionary home. I will have so many books anyhow. Love,
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Title: Alumnae Play -- June 1921 (4 of 6)
Creator: Wolven, E. L. (Edmund L.)
Date: June 1921

Title: Shipp, Margaret M. -- to Sister, 10 March 1904
Creator: Shipp, Margaret M.
Description: VC 1905
Date: 10 March 1904

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