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- [Blanche, L. ?]
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- 19 Jan 1879
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Vassar College January 19, 1879. My dear Old Girl - You don’t deserve that I answer your letter so soon for you waited I don’t know how long last time before answering but I will try [..] [...]. Yes, I did have just a grand time while at home - very quiet as regards parties and such tomfooleries but I assure you I was ready for theaters concerts & the opera every time I had a chance to go. Before going home I had a swell brown silk and velvet suit made and with a little brown felt bonnet...
Show moreVassar College January 19, 1879. My dear Old Girl - You don’t deserve that I answer your letter so soon for you waited I don’t know how long last time before answering but I will try [..] [...]. Yes, I did have just a grand time while at home - very quiet as regards parties and such tomfooleries but I assure you I was ready for theaters concerts & the opera every time I had a chance to go. Before going home I had a swell brown silk and velvet suit made and with a little brown felt bonnet I was all right. Callers too, I had in great numbers one evening I had seven another five and on an average two or three an evening. As you seem so curious concerning Mr. [...]. I will say he called and after he had a few explanations we were as good friends as ever - Rest assured there is absolutely nothing between us as we gave up all such nonsense last summer - We are now the best of friends and as such agree beautifully. Christmas day I passed with my Uncle and Cousin as usual - had of course a delightful time My presents were principally money this year receiving one hundred and fifty dollars of the “filthy lucre” besides I received a silver comb, an elegant Michelin lace “jigger” for my neck and sundry small things from small friends - New Year’s day I received an elegant bunch of roses from some unknown source great jacqueminot and marshal [...] was arranged with delicate ferns every one who saw them said they were the most beautiful roses they ever saw - [n’cest-ce pas jolie?]! By the way, the second semester is nearly here Shall you return? Write me of your intentions please so I may be prepared to meet you. Mother Dickey was here last week and spent the night; she is just as jolly as ever and faring ring a letter. [...] looks just the same. Miss Brockway also has returned - you remember her of course - she is still as fat and noisy as ever/ Of course you have heard that “Phil” day was given up and the students are trying to found a scholar ship with the amount saved as a nucleus, which shall be called the “Raymond scholarship” To do so $6000. must be raised before June 1880. $2000 is now pledged (which is different from received) but where the other $4000 is to come from remains to be found out - If you have any money to Ida Andrews is back as I suppose you know she says she wrote you a letter but meant to write [...o...e?]. Had an elegant letter from Helen Bartlett today. She is well and occupying herself in a quiet way. She is much subdued I think and has matured very much since her father’s death. It was such an awful shock to her. Of course you have heard that Carrie French, Ella Gill and Lottie [Roan?] are all married - all having taken the final leap this month.I can’t think of any more news to write you except that the Phil society think of charging a small [...] for admittance to their hall meetings the proceeds to go to the scholarship. By the way the chapter plays have been discarded and now instead they have three [union?] Phil hall meetings. The second one comes off next Friday evening. Isn’t it disgraceful the faculty and trustees have done nothing yet about memorial services for Pres. Raymond - although report says they will be held on the day of prayer for colleges which is a week from Thursday - I think they had better be given up entirely now don’t you?- The Exoterics had a [...highside?] about a week ago - they chose the evening this time and I guess it was more enjoyable than the one they had two years ago do you remember - Coasting too is very good here but the days of crusts are past and they coast in the old fashioned way now on sleds. I have got on the regular gossipy strain and could spin along on how [...] but for fear the shock will be too much for you will stop leaving the things which are unsaid until next time. Now, write me real soon. Goodnight. from your best friend E. Blanche [M...th?] To Miss Carrie Griffith Mercer Mercer Co Penn-
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- [Blanche, L. ?]
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- 01 Feb 1879
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Vassar College, Po’keepsie, February 1, 1879. My dear Carrie: - As it is now the middle of silent-time I think there is but little prospect of my finishing the letter before retiring this evening but I have at least made a beginning - I am very sorry you are not coming back this next semester but of course you know best what you want and ought to do. I must confess I never really expected you but hoped for the best. I am afraid [Mercer?] is too pretty to allow you to tear yourself away and...
Show moreVassar College, Po’keepsie, February 1, 1879. My dear Carrie: - As it is now the middle of silent-time I think there is but little prospect of my finishing the letter before retiring this evening but I have at least made a beginning - I am very sorry you are not coming back this next semester but of course you know best what you want and ought to do. I must confess I never really expected you but hoped for the best. I am afraid [Mercer?] is too pretty to allow you to tear yourself away and that your next move will be [...] in the direction of matrimony - “Look before you leap” but I assure you the disease is at present very [...] among young ladies who have left Vassar [...] [...]-[garder?]. Excuse that French word but I have just come from the [...] and have spoken French all the evening - Let me assure you these evenings are very instructive and also rather interesting two weeks from to-night - I am to take part in a small farce which I am afraid will be a trifle of a bore but which will be very instructive - Good night now for it is mst time for the last bell and duty you know before [pleasure?]. Wednesday - Feb 5, I have not had a moment to you before now for you know we are very busy and things are in a slight commotion. Class [bits?] have been prepared and two of the four Junior studies come on the same [period?] so you see how it is “Hobson’s choice” for the poor girls who are not ahead of their class - for instance astronomy and Physiology are both the second period and as I cannot give up astronomy, Physiology must go - I wont take Physics if I can help it - so I am waiting to see what I can do about a senior study this year and Physiology next year. I am not as yet admitted in fact do not care to be yet but Miss [Morse?] wants me to join soon so I think perhaps I may before my next letter - I enjoy being a Special very much - I do not care to have my name come out among them in the catalogue - but class meetings, committees &c. are such bores and you know the specials are exempt from all such nonsense. It [snows?] very [hard?] at present so I think the door [sloughing?] will be patched up once more. I miss my [rides?] as much as anything here but we can’t have all the good things of this life at once. This year we shall have no vacation between the semesters. The senior tried to make the juniors ask for it, but they tried that little game [...] and then never ceased to say “[...] you juniors asked or did not want it-” to [open?] for the juniors refusal to be a cat’s-paw particularly as their reviews are quite as easy as those of any class - Speaking of reviews, Prof Mitchell gives us a sett of questions each day and we are unable to look in our books, ask any questions or consult the library - This is the review - the examination comes next Friday - It’s hard work but does us no end of good. Friday evening we are to have a piano recital by a gentleman from New York. I hope it will be good Prof. [Ritter?] speaks very highly of him. I have not heard his name. The poor music scholars are having an examination similar to the one held last year in Society Hall - This year it is held in the chapel - “Oh the groans, the sighs &c” which proceed from the musicians. Did I write you that the chapter plays were given up and four [...] Phil hall meetings take their place - The first was given a week or so ago and was quite good they say - I am not a member of “Phil” yet so could only go to the dress rehearsal. They had a [lecture?] by Miss Fuller and Ella Gill originallybut as Ella Gil had left, Miss Burton made her essay which every one says was fine - The discussion was “Is Daisy Miller a typical American girl or not” Miss Gill having the negation - Of course you have read Daisy Miller by James as it is the latest fashionable novel. There was also a little operetta entitled “The Last Will & Testament” acted by Misses Turner, [D..?] Van Kleeck and [...] Donald all the characters being ladies - The Phil play is on the docket - and it being “Much Ado about Nothing.” It is a secret as yet - but I am one of the “costumers” so have heard all about it Further particulars in [...y?] next as they are so few now as to be interesting. Ella Gill was married very suddenly although she has been engaged to this gentleman for four or six years. He was ill and consequently ordered to ^go to the south of France which he refused to do unless Ella went with him so I believe they were married and went. Helen Bartlett has been sick since she went [back?] with a severe cold her last letter says however that she was better. I will give your message when I write. Her address is (^2 [Chillicothe?]) (^1 H. [Norris?].) [This?] I did not see May while at [bo…?]. I was so very busy after I got well. I hear from her occasionally from Miss Mills who is a regular correspondent. I believe she is getting along nicely. What a nice time you must have had on your birthday. I think such books are very enjoyable they are so unusual. How is the baby! As great & fat as ever I suppose. Write me all about him. Please excuse this piece of paper, but Ada has borrowed my essay paper sp I was forced to use a [stock?]. I believe I have written all the news I can think of at present so will go prepare for “[g...p...s?].” Hoping to hear soon in reply to this long epistle, I remain your friend Blanche [...] To Carrie A. Griffith Mercer [M...er?] Co Penn. "Please excuse this folding."
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