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Creator: Pease, Julia M
Date: 1870
Text: Vassar College. Sat. night. ,1870, My dear sister, As many letters as I have written you since 1 have been here, I hardly think you know anything about the College, but there is time enough to write you of it during the whole year. However you ought to know something of the teachers. Of course you know that the President's name is Raymond. He is over fifty I should judge and very pleasant and good, and the students do not feel at all afraid of him. The only scolding he has had to give us...
Show moreVassar College. Sat. night. ,1870, My dear sister, As many letters as I have written you since 1 have been here, I hardly think you know anything about the College, but there is time enough to write you of it during the whole year. However you ought to know something of the teachers. Of course you know that the President's name is Raymond. He is over fifty I should judge and very pleasant and good, and the students do not feel at all afraid of him. The only scolding he has had to give us since school commenced this fall was about "flirting," that is "handkerchief flirting." There are several gentlemen's colleges in Poughkeepsle and occaslonly the students come up here and drive through the grounds, and on such occasions there is sure to be a great display of linen. The Pres. says that this is the second time since the College was founded that he has had to speak to the students on the subject, which is speaking pretty well for Vassar girls, 1 think. There are some terrible flirts here this year but they have very little chance to try their powers upon any one. The only young lady who was ever expelled from the college was sent away for attempting to go out riding with a gentleman.Such a thing is strictly against the rules of the school But Miss Lyman is the horror of the whole school. Only to speak her name will make almost every girl shake, and to be sent for by her is a much more terrible thing than to be sent for to Mr. Crosby's study at the Sem. Hardly any girl ever cornea from her without having shed a goodly amount ol tears and alter she has caused them to be shed she generally kisses the girl which to me would be the worst part. I have never been called to her but once and then through no lault ol mine. There had been a "comb concert" on our corridor and they thought that our part had taken part In the performance although we had had nothingto do with it. As soon as she found that out she dismissed us, but not until she had delivered part ol her lecture* and I can tell you it was indeed learlul. Another time I went to see her ol my own accord and she was perlectly lovely, no one could have been kinder to me than she was. But in spite ol that it would make me shiver 11 she were to send lor me. Miss Lyman however is In very poor health and I presume that makes her Iretlul and cross. She is dying ol the consumption and I think we ought to excuse almost any thing Irom her on that account, and besides she has worn her- sell out working lor this College. The only gentlemen that teach in the college are Prols. Farrall ,Farrar? F Hlnckle, Backus and Van Ingen. Each onehas a particular department which he overlooks. Then there are any amount ol lady teachers, almost all very nice there are eight cor- ridors and each one has a teacher to see that the students In that corridor behave themselves. Ours is Miss Smiley. I like her very much but many ol the girls think that she is sneaking, perhaps she is a little so, but our corridor has the most wild girls on it being nearly all new scholars. We can always tell an old scholar by her looks and actions. They are so much more dignified and sedate. Prof. Backus, the Prof, of English Literature is thought very nice indeed, by every one. He is young and very "funny". He is married as no Prof's are admitted here unless they are. He looksto me like Frank Hamilton, only not quite as "foppish," although consider* ably so, but he Is very tall and quite handsome and very smart. Did you ever Invite Ida Whitman to spend a winter In Texas. You must have done so but the Invitation Z expect made more impression upon her than us, as we did not suppose she would think of coming* You know she has an Uncle, an organist I think, living in Brooklyn. His daughter is here at school, a Miss Layton and a vary nice girl. I had heard some time ago that she was a cousin of Ida's and yesterday I was speaking of Ida with her. She had heard of us, as Ida had told her that she had been invited to spend a winter in Texas, andshe was very anxious to go, but hardly thought she could. Mamma has made over your green striped skirt for mo and it looks very nicely. You must have her get you something else, for I only took it on that condition. As you had worn it two years In Texas she thought It would be better for you to have something new. She has also made me a wrapper which I like very much Indeed. How are you making your black alpaca? You never were fond of dressmaking and If you are trying to make it by yourself must have a hard time. I was so glad to hear all about your trip with Grandma to Buffalo. Da you suppose she would like to have me write to her? If she would like meto I will da so. I commenced this last night but could not finish before bod time, and again this morning but was interrupted by visiters who stayed until time lor Bible Class and now when I have time to write I caa not think ol anything mere that I was intending to say, but it is just as well lor I have filled eight pages. Excuse this being crossed but my psper is getting low, and I am very saving of that article. I was very anxious before your last letter came. Can you not find time to write me a few line* every week? I was so much obliged for your last long letter. Love to all and much for your- self from, Julie- (Julla M. Pease, <75,
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Creator: Pease, Julia M
Date: September 1870
Text: Vassar College. Saturday Mora. ,Sept. 1870, Dear Carrie, Your letter came day before yesterday, and I would have answered it sooner except that X wished to find out about entering the college before writing you) for I would se much like to have you come here this year. None are allowed to enter the college without examination, neither are any permitted to take only French and music or only Art Studies. But you could come and takeone English beaseh study besides French end singing. It might be...
Show moreVassar College. Saturday Mora. ,Sept. 1870, Dear Carrie, Your letter came day before yesterday, and I would have answered it sooner except that X wished to find out about entering the college before writing you) for I would se much like to have you come here this year. None are allowed to enter the college without examination, neither are any permitted to take only French and music or only Art Studies. But you could come and takeone English beaseh study besides French end singing. It might be anything you chose, for you are over eighteen and may be special* The examination for admittance I know you can pass. In Arithmetic you will only be questioned a little about and will be given examples only in fraction which I think you can do perfectly. Geography you will be asked where certain mountains fc rivers are, the capitals of foreign countries, about oceans, and In which direction some places are from each other* History I am to be reexamined in and will tell you the things which Prof. Backus told me I must be prepared in for reexamination. The early colo- nies, the revolutionary war. Warof 1812, Constitution of the U.S., the administration from Washington to present time. The late rebellion and the discovery of America of course will be asked about. The examination in Grammar I think you will pass. Write me soon If you desire to come for I will try end get a pleasant room. I am not in any of Miss Hamlin's classes, she has single Latin and I study double. I had a letter from Mary Rawsoa a few days ago, in which she said that Eugenie Eppersoa was atteadiag school at the Packer and liked it very much. 1 have had no letter from fyybf Gussie Bridgland but as her letters will have to go to her parents before comingto ma. Grace Pikes address is Pelham Priory, Pelham, Haw York. You must excuse such a miserable letter but Carrie Norton and Bessie Hogg are In my parlor waiting for ma to go chestnutting with them, aad talking aad laugh- lag, and of course I can not write. Goodbye Julie M. Pease iJulla M. Pease, <75 s
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Creator: Pease, Julia M
Date: September 22, 1870
Text: Pottghkt«psic, Sept. 22$ 1870 Dear Carrie, I suppose you will be anxious to know bow 1 am getting along, and so as I have nothing to da this afternoon I will tell all that has hap- pened since we left Blnghamptoa. We reached Albany at two oclock and went directly up to Captain PlUsbury's. We found them all at heme and boat glad to see us, we stayed there all night and came dowa on the dayAto thisplace, took a carriage oa to the college. You may Imagine that I was con* siderably excited....
Show morePottghkt«psic, Sept. 22$ 1870 Dear Carrie, I suppose you will be anxious to know bow 1 am getting along, and so as I have nothing to da this afternoon I will tell all that has hap- pened since we left Blnghamptoa. We reached Albany at two oclock and went directly up to Captain PlUsbury's. We found them all at heme and boat glad to see us, we stayed there all night and came dowa on the dayAto thisplace, took a carriage oa to the college. You may Imagine that I was con* siderably excited. We had to wait some time before being examined. The examination is hard, more so than I expected, but I passed very well in everything but History, which I shall have to review by myself and be examined in in about six weeks. I am sorry that X passed as I do not like it here at all, but now that I have commenced I must go through the year at least. Today I was examined in Latin, French, and Algebra and have to go in the preparatory class in all three if 1 study them. The french teacher says that she has examined 130 scholarsand all go in the pre- paratory except three, so there Is some comfort for me. I have a roommate. Miss Johnson quite a pleasant girl, but 1 want to be transferred to a single room If X caa. The teachers are all very kind and perhaps before the year is oat X may like it but X hardly think I shall. It is all study, study, study here. I suppose you are enjoying yourself very much indeed—give my love to all* I suppose Mamma will writs you when to leave aad where to go, she left here early this morning for New York. Your loving sister Julie (Julia M. pease, '75,
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Creator: Pease, Julia M
Date: September 23, 1870
Text: Dear Papa, Vassar College Sept. 23, 1870 It Is some time since I have written to you hut we have been travelling about so much lately that I have not had time and Mamma and Carrie have written which will do as well. Now that I xm settled however, I intend writing often. I presume you will be somewhat surprised to find that I am here. The entrance examination was very hard but I passed it very well except in History which study I shallhave to review by myself and be reexamined in it before...
Show moreDear Papa, Vassar College Sept. 23, 1870 It Is some time since I have written to you hut we have been travelling about so much lately that I have not had time and Mamma and Carrie have written which will do as well. Now that I xm settled however, I intend writing often. I presume you will be somewhat surprised to find that I am here. The entrance examination was very hard but I passed it very well except in History which study I shallhave to review by myself and be reexamined in it before Christmas. They are so very thorough here and I have not studied for so long a time that I did not pass in either French or Algebra and have to go in the preparatory class, but the highest one which will entitle me to the Freshman another year if I come. I am not much discouraged for many who had expected to enter the Freshman or Sophmore classes have been put Into the preparatory. The studies that have been assigned me are double Latin, that is two lessons a day. French and Algebra. It seems too bad that I have to take Algebra over againbut whan we once finish a study hero we certainly know it. We left Carrie in Binghamton whore she will stay for some weeks. Mamma came oa here with me but left yesterday morning far Now York. I think she will only remain there a few days and then go on to Conn, and prepare for going South. She is very much disappointed because she can not go home as soon as she had expected, but we saw In the papers there wore 50 deaths of yellow fever e week end I presume It Is growing worse. We are required here to give "testomonials" from home* I believe from the minister as to your character*You wrote %at Mr* Allen wished to call on us in Conn* it will be too bad if he goes to Poquonock when none of us sre there. Auntie has gone on to the centenary convention I believe in Boston. Mamiui hoped to get back to P. in time to go with her but I think will not. After this you will have to direct your letters to me to Vassar College, Poughkeepsie. Give my love to all at home. Z am afraid you will be disappointed because Z am aot coming home this fall but the year will not seem long Z hope. Your aff. daughter Julie M. Pease \ iJulia M. Pease, '75,
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Creator: Pease, Julia M
Date: October 1, 1870
Text: Vassar College. Oct 1st 1870 My dear Fapa, I am beginning to feel quite settled now, as I have been here a little over a week, the time passes very quickly now that my lessons have been assigned me for it takes all my time to learn them and take an hour's exercise in the open air. We are all required to walk an hour a day except when we practise gymnastics, then our time Is only twenty minutes. Itseems hard but then I suppose it is necessary for our health. As I have a room on the fourth...
Show moreVassar College. Oct 1st 1870 My dear Fapa, I am beginning to feel quite settled now, as I have been here a little over a week, the time passes very quickly now that my lessons have been assigned me for it takes all my time to learn them and take an hour's exercise in the open air. We are all required to walk an hour a day except when we practise gymnastics, then our time Is only twenty minutes. Itseems hard but then I suppose it is necessary for our health. As I have a room on the fourth floor I have to go up aad down stairs at least thirty times a day, which tires me very much. I presume you have heard Carrie and I speaking of some teachers we used to have while at the Hartford Sam. the Misses Hamlin from Constantinople the younger one is here teaching now, it makes it very pleasant for me to find her, for when I came here I did not know a single person. I was expecting to find Miss Epperson here, we met her In Brooklyn and I liked her very much. I have heard her fahter was sick and presume that is the reason she has net come. Carrie Norton attends school here, she is Mrs. Whitman's grandchild and a very nice girl, but in higherclasses than I am and so I do not see very much of her. It Is so arranged that all those who room oa the same corridor sit together in the chapel and at the dining table so we have very little chance to become acquainted with many girls. I have not heard from you since we left Blnghamtoa, nearly three weeks, but I hope Mamma will send me some of your letters soon. Saturday and Sunday arc always my most homesick days but they are also the only ones when I can find time to write so that my letters will be very poor ones I am afraid. The college grounds are looking beautiful now, for it rained all day Friday and the trees are all washed so clean. Rain is still very much needed. I thinkeven in Texas I aever saw the vegatatioa look mach worse than around Poughkeepsie when we came here. Some of the young ladies are going into Poughkeepsie for church this morning but I thought that X would wait until next month. All members of the church are allowed to go into town on communion Sunday. I wish I was at Wood Lawn today taking one of our Sunday walks together. What nice times we had during the last two years. please write to me every week if you can find time. I wish I were there to help do your copying. Give my love to all who enquire and to our servants, and accept much yourself from your loving daughter, Julie ^fulla M. Pease, '7$,
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Creator: Pease, Julia M
Date: October 3, 1870
Text: Vassar College. Oct* 3rd 1670 Dear Carrie, 1 was just going to commence an awful scolding letter to you and one to Mamma for not writing to me, whan a letter from Mamma was brought me, the mail hour had passed and so of course Z supposed X should not get oae fy today, then of course X could sot scold her and had not time to write you and at noon your letter came, so that since I have been so lively that I hardly know myself. Yours and Mamma's making five X have received today* I have...
Show moreVassar College. Oct* 3rd 1670 Dear Carrie, 1 was just going to commence an awful scolding letter to you and one to Mamma for not writing to me, whan a letter from Mamma was brought me, the mail hour had passed and so of course Z supposed X should not get oae fy today, then of course X could sot scold her and had not time to write you and at noon your letter came, so that since I have been so lively that I hardly know myself. Yours and Mamma's making five X have received today* I have wanted to write you before but did not know where to send a letter. Why do you leave Binghamton so soon, as you will not return South until November you might stay a good deal longer, X should think. You ask several questions and X will answer them before X forget. I da aat remember Mrs. Williams address In Hartford, In fact I da aat know that I aver heard the number of her house. Mrs. Brown's is 92 Amity St. Brooklyn, Mrs. Levenson's 75 first Place, Mr. Levenson SO Beavsn t? , St. N.Y. la a letter I have had from Papa ha says headquarters are to be removed from Austia to San Antonio, what a coming down it will be for Austin. I have written mars letters within tha last week than I have dene before for months. Have had two letters from Grace Pike, sae would like to have you write to her, was to go today to the Priory. Have X written you that Miss Abbie Hamlin is here as a teacher? 1 was very much surprised the Sunday after I came an looking around tha dininghall to spy her. X could hardly believe my eyas, aat having on my glasses, but the young lady sitting next ma at table told It was a Miss Hamlin. Josie Jewell is here as a scholar. I have not spoken with her at all and do not suppose I shall. Gov. Jewell, Miss Carrie Hamlin and little Emily Jewell were here on Sat. to visit. I saw Mist Csrrie only for a moment to speak with her. The reason X had not discovered Miss Abbie until after being here some days was that she sprained her ankle the very day I came, and even yet can not walk very comfortably. My studies are double Latin, that Is two lessons a day, French and Algebra, all of which you know I have studied before, but could not pass In for anything but preparatory classes. Z am so much disappointed because I can not be special, but none are allowed unless they are eighteen years old. Theof study. President says that mine is a hard courseAand for the present will not allow me to take drawing thinking that now I have as many studies as my "time and strength will permit," as I shall besides the others have to review History. I wish you would decide to come here for I miss you so much all the time, it seems so strange not to have someone to talk to and tell all I am thinking about. I have some very pleasant friends already and without them X do not know what X should do. Now I want to tell you about my friends and my room so that you can imagine what I am doing at different times. My most Intimate friends are Sarah and Bessie Hogg, isn't It a miserable name, but most of us pronounce it as If written Hong, which is a great improvement. They are very nice girls from Penn., the oldest must be over twenty and the other is sixteen, Llllie Mandeville from some little place in this state I can't remember the name, Libbie Rice from Ithaca. I like her very much and am in the same classes with her ineverything, she is not a very hard student but the others all are. Kftss Sallie Rollins is a native of Missouri, Columbia near St. Louis, she is a real Southerner and affords us much amusement* She is very queer but very good hearted, she is generally spoken of as the young lady who laces so tightly, her waist is really about the smallest I ever knew. Had I met Carrie Norton when I wrote you? She is a little bit of a thing, and looks just like the pictures I have seen of her taken several years ago. She is in the Freshman class with the exception of a few studies which she has to review, and I am only in the preparatory* while we are the same age. She is very pleasant and we see a good deal of each other, as much as could be expected when her room is on another floor and wedo not recite in the same classes. She is very Intimate with Nettle t? , Whitman, and corresponds with her. She tells me that Nettle has been quite sick and that every fall she has an attack of the lever, gastric fever I believe it Is called. Ida I should think was very grave and motherly from the way in which Carrie speaks of her. I hope you will go and visit Ida before you return to Conn. I have been interrupted three times since I commenced this so you must excuse all inaccuracies, It had to be left last night and now as I have a few spare minutes before breakfast I will finish so as to send this morn- ing. You speak of a skirt you are making. What is it? Are they those 1 white cambric under skirts, they will be very pretty bat a great deal ol work* F lease write soon, lor i week seems longer here than it does to yoa* Give much love to all, and accept much yourself from your loving sister Julie*Don't show this scrawl to anyone.
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Creator: Pease, Julia M
Date: October 9, 1870
Text: Vassar College. Oct. 9th 1870 My dear Papa* Another Sunday has come and this afternoon before service in Chapel commences I will write you. This morning a young lady and myself have been out hunting chestnuts. We did not have very good luck for X think X found only about a dozen. Sunday hero is such a very gloomy day that we will do almost anything to make it pass quickly. Thereare a good many chestnut trees In the Collage grounds but among four hundred girls some are always ready to pick the...
Show moreVassar College. Oct. 9th 1870 My dear Papa* Another Sunday has come and this afternoon before service in Chapel commences I will write you. This morning a young lady and myself have been out hunting chestnuts. We did not have very good luck for X think X found only about a dozen. Sunday hero is such a very gloomy day that we will do almost anything to make it pass quickly. Thereare a good many chestnut trees In the Collage grounds but among four hundred girls some are always ready to pick the nuts up as quickly as they fall. After taking a morning walk on Sunday I generally go In library and read until dinner which is at one oclock. Then write and dress until chapel exercises. Is our church nearly finished? X should like so much to see it for it will be lovely when completed. President Raymond has preached here one Sunday and a minister from Poughkeepsie the other while I have been here but neither were at all Interesting sermons. I hope this afternoon wo will have something batter. In the evening we have aprayer meeting and as we have services in chapel directly after breakfast every morning I think we have sufficient religious instruction. Although in a short time we commence having bible classes on Sunday. The advantages here in some respects are not so very great. None of the preparatory classes have exercises In either reading or spelling, and none lower than the Freshman class write compositions. I am very glad I do not have to do the latter. But of course it would be very improving for me too; it is too bed we do not take rending lessons for I am very deficient in that respect and would like to make it up. I think I shall ask the Pres. to let me have a practise period everyday although 1 do not expect to take music lessons, for if X do not touch the piano for a whole year I shall forget all I know about music. They charge a dollar a month for use of piano. Do you think it will be worth while? You wrote some time ago that you were having the stove room and bathroom made. Will they be finished by the time Mamma and Carrie return? They will be quite an addition to the house, making it so much more convenient. The bell will ring for chapel in a few moments and I must close. Accept lots of love and kisses from your aff. daughter Julie M. Peasep.S. I have a favor to ask of you. Carrie is almost twenty years old and has a great desire to possess a watch. Will you give her oae for a birthday preseat? If you do she would have to get it this fall before she goes heme as she may aot come North i»r a year or two agaia. Almost all girls her age now have watches aad it would make her perfectly happy to receive such a preseat. loviagly Julie. (Julia M. Pease, »75,
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Creator: Pease, Julia M
Date: October 16, 1870
Text: Vassar College. Oct. 16, 1870 Dear Carrie, Your letter telling of Grandma's sickness gave me such a shock but you said she was better and until your last letter came X supposed she was almost well. How terrible it is J and she appeared so well when Mamma and I left Binghamton. I wish I were there to help there must be so much to be done and only Aunt Maria and you, for though Mrs. Reeve is visiting with Aunt and might assist I imagine from what I have seen of her she will not be of much...
Show moreVassar College. Oct. 16, 1870 Dear Carrie, Your letter telling of Grandma's sickness gave me such a shock but you said she was better and until your last letter came X supposed she was almost well. How terrible it is J and she appeared so well when Mamma and I left Binghamton. I wish I were there to help there must be so much to be done and only Aunt Maria and you, for though Mrs. Reeve is visiting with Aunt and might assist I imagine from what I have seen of her she will not be of much service in sickness. It must make you rather homesick If you have time to think of anything and I wish I could enliven you but Sundayhere is about my gloomiest day. I do hope that the next letter I get from you will say that Grandma is much better, for generally after such an attack the person gets entirely well. I wrote to Anna Towns end some time ago, for I wanted to hear from her, she always writes such nice letters and tells so much news. She answered promptly and is still in Mass. expecting soon to go down to Brooklyn, her Mother and family expected to leave Austin the first of Oct. come North, first to Kenosha, Wis. where you remember they have relations, then to Phila- delphia where she will remain and place the children at school. Anna will go on to meet her there about the first of Nov. I am so sorry on your account that they are coming North to remain for two years, and it will make it much lonelier at home for you without them. And Judge Bell'sfamily are already in Phil, left Austin in Sept. Lucy and Leah are attending college school In Phil. Barclay goes to aabsal at Princeton. Judge and Mrs. Bell return home this fall, but Evelyn is not certain whether she will go with them or remain in P. for the winter. Carrie Norton had a letter from her Grandmother a few days since, asking if Grandma Pease was not coming to visit her before returning West. It was before I had heard of her sickness and I told Carrie that she would not come. She also wanted Mamma and you to visit her this fall and has been expecting us this summer as she had heard through Ida that we were coming. Shall I tell Carrie now of Gr* ndma's sickness ? She fears that she will have to return home next week, as she has had a chilly sensation every morning and the doctor thinks she may have afever. She is now in the infirmary. I shall go and see her todsy and find whether it is necessary for her to go home. There is \ a great deal of sickness now though nothing serious, except the College doctress, Doc. Avery, who has been very sick indeed with slow fever, we did not at the time know how sick, but she has had her hair cut off and such splendid hair as she had! Every bed in the Infirmary is occupied which is quite an unusual thing here. I have dropped Algebra and taken drawing, the Prof, is a splendid man and I think I rhall get on pretty well although it seems hard now. He gives me so much more difficult pieces than I have ever drawn before. I forgot to tell you where to direct to Anna Townsend, she said she wanted to hear from you very much indeed and I hope when you find time you will write to her. The directionis to her at South W illiamstown, Mass. X have written a long letter and will now close with much love your sister Julie. ■ • (Julia M. Pease, *75, A
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Creator: Pease, Julia M
Date: October 23, 1870
Text: Vassar College. Pokeepsie N.Y. Oct. 23, 1870 My dear Papa, It seems a long time since I have had a letter Irom you, but Mamma writes that she hears Irom you and so I hope you are quite well. I presume by this time you have received some ol our letters ssylng that I am remaining at school. I am alrald you will be disappointed at my not returning with Mamma and Carrie, but I thought III went home this time I would never come on again to attend school and I really am too ignorant to giveup...
Show moreVassar College. Pokeepsie N.Y. Oct. 23, 1870 My dear Papa, It seems a long time since I have had a letter Irom you, but Mamma writes that she hears Irom you and so I hope you are quite well. I presume by this time you have received some ol our letters ssylng that I am remaining at school. I am alrald you will be disappointed at my not returning with Mamma and Carrie, but I thought III went home this time I would never come on again to attend school and I really am too ignorant to giveup studying now, and I know I would not have resolution enough to study much st home, there sre slways too many Interruptions. I have fclmsst been thinking ol staying another year since I have been at the college lor one can not learn very much In a school year, but I am alrald belore the year is over I shall be so homesick I shall want to go directly to Texas. In lact already I am longing to see you end dear Wood Lawn again. I have no photograph of you with me; will you be so kind as to tske yours out ol my album, and send In a letter to me. My album always used to be on the little table in hall upstairs and I think was leit there when we came away. Has Carrie written you ol Grandma Pease's sickness. It makes us all feel so badly. When Mamma and I lelt Binghamton she was so wellwalking out and working among the flowers. I have not heard from Carrie hope for some days but^tomorrow to get a letter saying Grandma Is better. It seems so fortunate that Carrie should have remained In Bing. for she can be of so much assistance to Aunt Maria. I have commenced taking drawing lessons and enjoy it so much. I always liked to draw and here the Prof, is so pleasant and everything is so convenient for it. He has also had us begin linear drawing, using the compass and other little instruments. It is not as Interesting as draw- ing heads but will teach us to draw from models, which is what I am most anxious to do. I had a letter from Anna Towns end saying her Mother and family were going to come North and that Judge Bell's family had alreadyreached Philadelphia. You have not written us, but then I have not had a letter from you for some time. I long for some of our nice fail weather, here it is already beginning to feel like winter and I presume this Is a very cold place. But I intend to try and enjoy myself when winter comes by coasting and shall even attempt to skate, for an hour's exercise a day will be very dreary to be taken Just walking about in the snow. I have one or two other letters to write and so must now close. I hope soon to receive a letter from you. With much love and many kisses your loving daughter Julie. tJulla M. Pease, '75, P.S. Remember me to all friends and to the servants. Tell Lisa and Chloe that Miss "Dolie" will expect them to be very smart girls and nice servers when. comes back. J.M.P.
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Creator: Pease, Julia M
Date: October 28, 1870
Text: Vassar College. Oct* 28. 1870 Dear sister Carrie, I am ashamed ol myself lor not writing to you last week, and then let so much of this one pass by without doing so. but this week has been a very busy one and I have not had time to aaswer your letters even now I am stealing the time which I ought to be studying my Latin, but II I do not write aad mail In the morning you caa nothear Irom me until Monday aad I am afraid you will be anxious. But the fact is the days pass so quickly that I caa...
Show moreVassar College. Oct* 28. 1870 Dear sister Carrie, I am ashamed ol myself lor not writing to you last week, and then let so much of this one pass by without doing so. but this week has been a very busy one and I have not had time to aaswer your letters even now I am stealing the time which I ought to be studying my Latin, but II I do not write aad mail In the morning you caa nothear Irom me until Monday aad I am afraid you will be anxious. But the fact is the days pass so quickly that I caa hardly tell whea oae week begins and when it ends. It is always so I think when there is so much sameaess about one's life. Although my lessoas are only Double Latin and French my time is about all occupied, for our lessons can not be laaraed and recited as at the dear old Sem. in Hartford. Our class in Latin is expected to study four hours a day upon it, aad sometimes we will have to spend more, whea we com- mence translating Caesar, which we do in a fortnight.I like to draw aa hour a day at least. Though I do aot always find time to do so. And then exercising aa hour uses up about all the day with learning my French which Is indeed nothing for me as we are aew studying "Otto's Qrammar" aad you know I have beea through it before. Do they think that Grandma will ever recognise aayoae agaia? What aa so affliction it is to us alii And to be takenAwhen she appeared to be so well and we thought she would have her health for years. Will she aot remala in Binghamton or does the doctor think her well enough to make the trip West? Give my loreto Uncle John and Aunt Carrie, if they ere still in B. Uncle John's opinion of Vassar Is aot at all true. There is very little sickness here for the number of scholars, and the amount of brain work that is accomplished. And as for its being "barracky" (a word of my owa coining) it is not so, for the rooms are comfortable aad well ventilated. And X think that everyone here is contented unless their health is not good. And of course no one who has not a very strong constitution should come here for the study is too hard. Excuse this poor letter, as it is writtea in great haste, and the bell is even now ringing for us to prepare for bed. Please write often and soon to your loving sister Julie Give my love to all the family.
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Creator: Pease, Julia M
Date: November 1, 1870
Text: Nov. 1, 1870 My dear Papa, Your nice long letter reached me today, and made me very happy, for I was afraid you would not find time to write one every week. But will not the hard rain you apeak of make the mails irregular again? I do wish that the railroad was finished and then there would not be so much trouble about letters coming, besides being pleasanter for those traveling from Galveston to Austin. I like, however, to travel in the stage or better still in a private conveyance....
Show moreNov. 1, 1870 My dear Papa, Your nice long letter reached me today, and made me very happy, for I was afraid you would not find time to write one every week. But will not the hard rain you apeak of make the mails irregular again? I do wish that the railroad was finished and then there would not be so much trouble about letters coming, besides being pleasanter for those traveling from Galveston to Austin. I like, however, to travel in the stage or better still in a private conveyance. What a funny time we had coming from Austin to Brenham this summer. Carrie said that Anna Townsend aad X were determined to make something nice of everything we ssw an that trip and perhaps we were. Do you think that the railroad will be finished within a days ride of Austin when Mamma and Carrie return this fall? It will be pleasant for them If it is far they dredd the latter part of the journey South more than all the rest. Have I ever written you what I bought with the present of money you made me before we left home? I I have done so but am not sure aad so will risk telling you over again. When in Boston this summer I bought a nice writing desk with it not so large as Carrie's, but a more useful slue, and rosewood like hers.The price was seven dollars and a half. It is very pretty Indeed and I think every thing of it. I had always wanted one since Carrie had hers aad I like this the best of the two. Your letter carried me hack to Wood Lawn and I think of the many pleasant evenings passed oa the south gallery this spring, of our Sat. night game of whist aad better than all of the loag winter evenings spent around the cheerful fire when you were reading aloud to us. How very lonely you must be but then Mamma and Carrie will be home soon and how happy you will all be together. It seems a perfect age since we left Texas, and it has been nearly five months. Mr, Allen called to see me last Sat. ha expects to leave New Yorktoday I believe for home. I expect you hear as often from Mamma and Carrie as I do. Tho last letter from Mamma said that Carrie would remain In Blnghamton until they start for the South. Grandma is much better. It made me feel badly to hear of the death of Robert Alexander, for I always liked him very well, although he was always la bad health, I was very much surprised to learn of his death. Do you ever see his brother now? You wrote that he had called once upon you, was it only to introduce those Mexican gentlemen, or is ho inclined to be friendly now, after all he has said against you? Give my love to Mr. Harris, please, when you see him. With lots of love and kisses your "little?" Julie iJulia M. Pease, '75,
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Creator: Pease, Julia M
Date: November 1870
Text: (Incomplete; perhaps written in November 1870, they ...Brown's. They are sorry that they did not send her here It think that^ will even now do so. Her turn at the Packer will be over at Christmas, and perhaps she will come here then. I do hope she will, lor she seems a very nice girl. My roommate reminds me a great deal ol Battle Hamilton; she is very smart but rather peculiar. She Is known as the young lady with the "pale11 lace and her hair which she wears very high is called ^...
Show more(Incomplete; perhaps written in November 1870, they ...Brown's. They are sorry that they did not send her here It think that^ will even now do so. Her turn at the Packer will be over at Christmas, and perhaps she will come here then. I do hope she will, lor she seems a very nice girl. My roommate reminds me a great deal ol Battle Hamilton; she is very smart but rather peculiar. She Is known as the young lady with the "pale11 lace and her hair which she wears very high is called ^ the "Tower oI Babel," a lew evenings since when by my persuasion she wore it hang- ing down her backthey said the "Tower o! Babel had fallen." Her hair is very beautiful, being long, as it hangs below her waist, and it is quite curly, but when she puts it up, rolling in two or three tiers, one above another, and fastening on a braid of jupe behind it looks anything but pretty. She never washes her lace, but uses instead white chalk, and sometimes evea white lead* She has the powder dissolved in water aad washes her lace with that. It is a shame lor her to do so, lor it makes everyone laugh at her, and makes her appear anything but preposessing. Miss Hamlin told me not long since that she thought Florence Smith was living in New Port, and soI ventured to write to her there. She answered my letter very soon, and sent me a ferrotype ol herself. She has not changed much in looks, but Miss Abbie says that she is very young "ladyish" in manners. They are residing in Newport and I expect she is enjoying herself very much, fiver since she returned Irom England she has had a lady come to the house three times a week and hear her recite, but this winter she says she will read history with her Mother. I should think you would need a new travel* ling dress. What will you wear home? and you certainly need something new, In place of the green one I have. Shall you buy your bracelets before you return home? I want to getmine when you and Mamma come to see me if you can arrange to come for Friday so that I can go into Poughkeepsie and stay over night with you, and do a little shopping on Saturday. We are allowed to go into town once in a while, with a teacher, but every article we wish to buy must be set down on a list and shown to Miss Lyman to approve. I suppose you will have a nice time Thanksgiving. I wish I could be with you, but they will try and make it pleasant here for us. We are looking forward to our Thanksgiving "dinner," and in my next I shall tell you all about it. Love to all and lots for yourself from your very loving sister Julie—You ask Anna Towns end's address. I think I have given it you once but will do so again. She told me simply to direct to her at South Williams town Mass. and the letters would be sent to her. I should not wonder if by this time the whole family were in Phil, for Papa wrote that they left Austin some time ago In company with Mr. Joe Bowers. I have just received a letter from Connie Smith with a most urgent invitation to spend the spring vacation with her. Would you promise to do so If you were In my place? J. {Julia M. Pease, <75,
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Creator: Pease, Julia M
Date: November 3, 1870
Text: Nov. 3. 1870. My dear sister, You write as if you were homesick, but Carrie you ought not to be for saying so when you are going home so soon. Don't blame meAfor I feel as though no be one had a right toAhomesick but myself who am all alone, I expect there are very few girls here but t? , knew someone when they came and the only person I had ever seen before was Miss Hamlin, and as I am not on her corridor I see very little of her. I wish every day that you had come with me, for I know...
Show moreNov. 3. 1870. My dear sister, You write as if you were homesick, but Carrie you ought not to be for saying so when you are going home so soon. Don't blame meAfor I feel as though no be one had a right toAhomesick but myself who am all alone, I expect there are very few girls here but t? , knew someone when they came and the only person I had ever seen before was Miss Hamlin, and as I am not on her corridor I see very little of her. I wish every day that you had come with me, for I know that you would like it here very much, and I hope another year you will decide tocomenas "special." Even now you might enter and take French, Music and any other study you choose or not as you please. You ask what I mean by Double Latin. It Is learning and recit- ing two lessons a day and is the same as two studies. The class is for the benefit of those who are deficient in that study and wish to be prepared for the Freshman class in one instead of two years for we really do two years work in one. You may know that we take any lessons when we have beea through the "Latin Lessons" which we used to study In the six weeks we have been here and there is a great deal more In this one than In our old one. Monday Is our first lesson in Caesar and we must translate 3 booksbefore Christmas. I received a letter today from Papa In which he told me of the changes he had been making in the house—rather of the addition he had been putting on. It Is very nice Indeed, a bathroom with a fixed tub opens from Mamma's room, there is also a sink or washstand with a pump in it ho which brings water from the small cistern. ThenU making a large stove room and closet. Had you heard that Mr. Messina t? , has bought Judge Merrill's place and expects a sister and her family to come out and live with him. I wonder where tha Merrills will live, as the Judge he has business in Galveston presume they will spend their winters there and summers North. It will be a good thing for youto have Aunt Maria act towards you as if you were no longer a child, for it will give you more self possession and courage. But I should think you would be almost afraid to travel from Buffalo to Binghamton by yourself as you will have to do after leaving Aunt Carrie there, more because you are nearsighted than any other reason. But you can put on your glasses aad travel on as fearlessly as we this summer when we went to Boston alone, and perhaps have someone elss put under you charge for you know, I wear my glasses nearly all the time. I found that I could not get along at all in my classes without them, for I could not tell when the teachers were speaking to me unless they called my name, and when I was studying Algebra could not sea the examples which wereput on the blackboard. I shall try and take Double French next term if the Pre*, will let me for they begin "Noel aad Chopssl's" grammar which I am very anxious to study, and they accomplish as much from Feb, to June as the Freshman class in a whole year. You do not say whether Grandma is going West with Aunt Carrie or aat, and only that she is better. 1 do not know now if she can recognise anyone. On my own account I wish to know, as well as to tell Carrie Norton so that she may illness write home about it, for Mrs. Whitman has heard of OrandmaAonly from Carrie. W ill not Aunt Maria write and tell her all about it? It seems as though I had more to say but cannot think of it at present. Did you find my chemise stud in cleaning up the little room we slept in? I haven't it with me and Msmma says it is not with her things. X am afraid it is lost and it is the nice one Mamma gave me about ayear ago. I shall be so sorry if it's not found. Will you not come and see me with Mamma before you go home? You might meet Mamma either at Albany or New York and come here for a day at least. I wish you would for I shall feel badly to have you go home without seeing you again. Please write as often as you can to your "laving, loving, loving," sister Julie. (Julia M. Pease, '75, P.S. I forgot to tell you, and so have to write a postscript which I dislike to do that Mr. Allen called last Saturday and Miss Lyman gave permission for him to take me out riding with a teacher. I chose to take Miss Hamlin and we had a very pleasant ride. This letter you will see by the date was commenced some time ago and has been waiting until today to be finished. Thank Aunt Maria far kindness in letting me invite some one to spend Christmas with ma at her pleasant home, but there Is no one I care par- ticularly about asking, as I have navery graat friend here, and most of the girls X know are going either home or to New York. Carrie Norton is going home Christmas. Goodbye my precious sister. Again I must add a lew lines and I presume you will think I am never going to end. But as you are always making collections, would you not like to get old "postage stamps'1 ? For a million the Government will pay you three hundred dollars. I have written to Papa asking him to save his and I will keep mine lor you 11 you wish. I hope this morning to get a letter from you but am afraid I will be disappointed. My lave to Aunt Maria and tell her I am looking forward with great pleasure to spending Christmas with her and it is only a little over six weeks before the time. Only think you will be home then, but you must think of me as wishing heartily to be with you all. Next time I write I had better commence on anothersheet of paper than cross so much, for I am afraid you can scarcely read this scrawl. Julie iJulia M. Pease, '75,
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Creator: Pease, Julia M
Date: November 6, 1870
Text: N©v. 6. 1870. My dear Papa, I have Just received your letter telling of the over flow there has been In Texas. How terrible it Is to have another one, when people have hardly recovered from the losses of the other. And this I should think must have been worse than when I was sick. Is your rock wall nearly finished ? I think I know where it was washed away, was it not the low place where you were going to have the water dammed 19? By this time I expect Emilys house Is almost...
Show moreN©v. 6. 1870. My dear Papa, I have Just received your letter telling of the over flow there has been In Texas. How terrible it Is to have another one, when people have hardly recovered from the losses of the other. And this I should think must have been worse than when I was sick. Is your rock wall nearly finished ? I think I know where it was washed away, was it not the low place where you were going to have the water dammed 19? By this time I expect Emilys house Is almost entirely shut-in by the fence. I am per- fectly delighted with the additions you have been making to the house, and it was very kind in you to send me the plan, for now I understand perfectly what alterations have been made. Is the closet large enough to put a trunk in? It is all so convenient for Mamma that I hope she will not st|ll wish to carry out her plan of making the kitchen where the "brick" gallery now is. The pump to bring water into the bathroom is a nice arrangement, as a bathroom whose ail the water had to be "toted" in, as the darkies would say, would not be of very much use. I am glad you have decided not to close the window in your bedroom, for I am a real Southerner ill wanting plenty of light and air. The College for gentlemen which you say you have seen here is in full view from these grounds.It is at the top of a very high hill and seems \ to be a beautiful place. I have not heard whether school is kept there now or not, but two years ago when Kitty graduated Aunt Juliet came here at commencement, and as all the hotels in Poughkeepsie were full, she went 1 I, out to the former boys school which was thou used as a hotel* and stayed. Vassar College is about three miles from the river and on higher land than the town of Poughkeepsie, though very much lower than College hill, as the spot you speak of is called and is in an easterly direction from it. Composition* are not required from the students who have never studied "rhetoric." And as I have not done so, do not have to write them. Next term however I studyit, and so another year will have them to write. I cannot wtite a composition and so am heartily glad X am not required to, but I hope that studying Rhetoric will help me to compose, for X would be ashamed not to have one, and would be still more ashamed to hand in any thing which I should compose. X am only borrowing trouble for another year in thinking of them, and X have enough to do this year without think- ing of another year's studies. Our class in Latin begin translating Caesar Ktonday, and then, on we will have to work pretty hard. Tell Mary Eliaa that X want her to study nicely with Miss Carrie when she goes home, and I will write her a nice little letter when she learns to read printing. Love to all friends- Accept much love and "heaps" of kisses from your loving daughter JulieWill you please save all tha postage stamps from tho letters which come to you? For X want to try and get a million and then the Government will give me three hundred dollars for them.
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Creator: Pease, Julia M
Date: November 13, 1890
Text: Vassar College. Nor. 13* 1870. My dear Fapa, la your letters you have said nothiag about the "testimonials" which X wrote you about. We are required to have them, aad although they have not asked me for them yet, they will expect them to be givea soon. As X have never attended aay school at home you will have to get them as to my character from the minister, aad I presume the reasoa you have aot seat them is because Mr. Rogers has aot yet returned from his trip North. When he comes...
Show moreVassar College. Nor. 13* 1870. My dear Fapa, la your letters you have said nothiag about the "testimonials" which X wrote you about. We are required to have them, aad although they have not asked me for them yet, they will expect them to be givea soon. As X have never attended aay school at home you will have to get them as to my character from the minister, aad I presume the reasoa you have aot seat them is because Mr. Rogers has aot yet returned from his trip North. When he comes home will you get him to write some thing of the sort and send to me and my mind will be much eased upoa that subject. Sometimes X think X would like to go through the course here, and then again I do not care to, but the last two years before graduating are not very hard, and a girl who has gone through the Sophomore class here is about as far advaaced as oae who has graduated at aaother school. I presume at almostany boarding school X could graduate ia one year, and now I should have to come four years besides this. Indeed there are several young ladies in my classes who have graduated at High Schools before coming here. I am so glad that you will give Carrie the watch, for X know the present will make her perfectly happy. As for myself, I have nothing to ask for as my expenses at school will be very great, aad will be enough for one year. I thank you for asking me what I would like, but I do not care for any present now. Do you ever remember a Gov. Rollinsof Missouri? He has a daughter at school here whom I know quite well, she is a very nice girl, but she would not be very sensible in your eyes, because she has a very small waist which shows that she either has or does now lace very tightly, I have a roommate Annie Johnson from Red Wing, Minn. She is a very smart girl and we get along very nicely together. Our parlor is very small and not particularly pleasant, but only we two have the parlor and bedroom together, which makes it very quiet and nice lor studying. There are only two or three parlors In the building which are not occupiedby lour or live young ladies aad we think ourselves very lortunate in having this one, although it is in the back part oI the college and the window is up quite high. Does Mr. Rogers spsll his name with a "d" ? X am alraid I have written it wrong. Carrie wrote me that you had had blinds put on the windows on our house upstsirs. It will be a great improvement making our rooms so much cooler. With very much love your daughter Julie M.P. (Julia M. Pease, '75,
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Creator: Pease, Julia M
Date: November 19, 1870
Text: Vassar College. Nov. 19, 1870. My dear Papa, Having a little spare time this afternoon, I think I can not spend it more profitably than by writing my "weekly" letter to you, and then I will have fewer letters to write tomorrow. One of my friends here thinks it is very wrong to write letters on Sunday and talks to me sometimes about doing so. I do not approve of the habit myself, but we have so little time here that I have to do so almost every Sunday. And...
Show moreVassar College. Nov. 19, 1870. My dear Papa, Having a little spare time this afternoon, I think I can not spend it more profitably than by writing my "weekly" letter to you, and then I will have fewer letters to write tomorrow. One of my friends here thinks it is very wrong to write letters on Sunday and talks to me sometimes about doing so. I do not approve of the habit myself, but we have so little time here that I have to do so almost every Sunday. And then writing to you is about the same as talking and I certainly should not refrain from talking If I were with you, whether it was Sunday or not. I was Just here Interrupted by the messenger girl who came to tell me that Mr. and Mrs. Epperson would like to see me and were then in the parlor. Tou can imagine the delight with which I went down to see them. Although I have never met the family except this fall at Mrs. Brown's in Brooklyn. I have always heard of them, and was glad to see them becausethey are Texans. They have two sons at school in Pough- keepsie and had come up to visit them. I think it very kind indeed for them to take the trouble to come out here to make me a call. Their daughter is the young lady I expected would be here when I came, but she was not certain that 1 was coming and did not like to come alone, and so they decided to place her at the Packer Institute in Brooklyn where she has been attending school, and boarding at Mrs. Brown's since the first of Sep. But she Is not at all satisfied and they think now of sending her here next semester. I do hope they will do so, lor it would be so pleasant for me to havesomeone from Texas here. Last night a lecture was delivered belore the college by Benson Lawson fLossing? , The sub- ject was chivalry, and we were all much pleased with the lecture. This is the first one of the season. I am told there will be three or four this winter. He told us the origin of the name "sirloin" applied to a certain part of the beef, and also that of the "order of the garter," both of which I had heard before, but still there was a great deal which was interesting in the lecture. Your letter containing you photograph has been received, for which I must thank you. I have not heard from Mamma for over a week, but think her next will tell me when ahe can cometo Poughkeepsie and hew soon she thinks of returning home. Accept many goodnight kisses from your loving little Julie. (Julia M. Pease, '75^
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Creator: Pease, Julia M
Date: November 20, 1870
Text: (November 20, 1870, Saturday Evening. You are a dear good girl Carrie, to write so often to your sister, and X thank you for it, and only wish Mamma would do as well. I have not heard from her for over a week but suppose she is hard at work for one and so 1 ought not to complain. If you would write a little plainer I could read your letters better. At first I had no difficulty at all in doing so, but the last ones I have had to study over and even then could not exactly understand what you...
Show more(November 20, 1870, Saturday Evening. You are a dear good girl Carrie, to write so often to your sister, and X thank you for it, and only wish Mamma would do as well. I have not heard from her for over a week but suppose she is hard at work for one and so 1 ought not to complain. If you would write a little plainer I could read your letters better. At first I had no difficulty at all in doing so, but the last ones I have had to study over and even then could not exactly understand what you wrote. For instance in one of your lettersyou say that Mamma has given you something which you like very much, but what it is I can not make out. Would you really like to have me write you what words you spell wrong ? I have not noticed maay, in you last I think there were only two, "tear" which you spelled "tair," and "ripped" which you had written wrong. Last night Benson Lawson (Lossing? , delivered a lecture before the college. His subject was "chivalry, the past and present." He told us the origin of the name "sirloin" as applied to certain pieces of meat, and also that of the "Order of the Garter," and many other interesting little things. 1 presume you read the aewspapers, and know something of what is going on, butI never do. There are always aewspapers in the library, and sometimes I think I will read them but do not get about it. And so X had not heard until yesterday when I received a letter from Mary Rawson telling me of it, of the railroad accident at Grand Junction; you will remem- ber the place, one of the many times we had to change cars on our way North. There were a good many of our Texan friends on the train, but none of them were injured although four persons were killed and as many wounded. Mr. & Mrs. Morrill, Mrs. Rives and her daughters, Mr. and Mrs. West and Mollie Duval, and Mr. Raymond and his two nieces were In the party. What a fright they must havehad. Yesterday afternoon X was very much surprised as well as delighted, when the messenger girl came up and told me that Mr. and Mrs. Epperson were in the parlor and would like to see me. They have sons attending school in Poughkeepsie, and had come up to visit them, and I think it was very kind in them to ride out and see me when I had known so little of them. Eugenie has been attending school at the Packer Institute. (I forgot to say that she was with them) but she does not like it very well, says she cannot get acquainted with the girls, and I do not wonder, for if I were in her place I would net ask any one to call upon me at Mrs... (Remainder of the letter Is lost, (Julia M. Pease, «»5,
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Creator: Pease, Julia M
Date: November 27, 1870
Text: Vassar College, Nov. 27, 1870. My dear Papa, I expect that almost by the time this letter reaches you Mamma and Carrie will be at home, lor in a letter I received Irom her yesterday she said that they would come here and see me this week either Wednes- day or Thursday and after that they will go to New York and irom there home. She also said that Mrs, Crabb had invited them to visit her in Philadelphia and all start together lor Texas irom there. 1 hope they will do so for...
Show moreVassar College, Nov. 27, 1870. My dear Papa, I expect that almost by the time this letter reaches you Mamma and Carrie will be at home, lor in a letter I received Irom her yesterday she said that they would come here and see me this week either Wednes- day or Thursday and after that they will go to New York and irom there home. She also said that Mrs, Crabb had invited them to visit her in Philadelphia and all start together lor Texas irom there. 1 hope they will do so for I think Carrie ought to see something of Phil, before going South, as it will be hard work to get her away from home again. What kind of a Thanksgiving did you pass all alone? Did Maline cook you a nice dinner and how many courses did you have? I imagine she does not understand getting up a nice dinner very well. This has been a very pleasant Thanksgiving for me for one passed away from home. The "faculty" tried to do their best to have us enjoy it, and they succeeded admirably. The "dinner," of course the most important thing, passed off very well. 1 will send you abill of fare and you can than sea for yourself what we had to eat, as it would take me a long time to tell you all we had. Thursday, Friday and Saturday evenings we were expecting to have an exhibition of Prof. Cromwell's stereopticon pictures, but much to our dis- appointment his views did not arrive In Poughkeepsie in time for the enter- tainment Thursday night. The Pres. very kindly read to us irom Shakespeare to make up for the loss of the pictures. Ho selected "Midsummer Night's Drearand Indeed It was a treat to hear him, his specialty is comic read- ing and he acted "Bottoms'1 part to perfection. After the reading there was a reception In boththe college and President's parlors, when we were served with leu cream and cake. The stereopticon views were shown three times besides, Sat. morning and evening besides Friday evening, and they fully came up with our expectations. Views were shown us of England, France, Switzerland, Constantinople, and Egypt, and a few in Spain. Those of the Alhambra I enjoyed very much having read so much about it in Irvings books. There was a great deal of statuary also which was very fine. Ther great attraction was in appearing so lifelike,and as few of us will ever see the real places, it is a "rare opportunity to make mere imaginings a tangible reality" as Prof. Cromwell says in his circu- lar. And now as I have another letter to write 1 must close with much love. Julie M. Pease. iJulia M. Pease, '7$, 1 hope soon to hear from the "testimonials."
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Creator: Pease, Julia M
Date: December 4, 1870
Text: Vassar College. Dee. 4th 1870 Dear Papa, Mamma aad Carrie came to see ma last Wednesday and Miss Lyman gave me permission te go Into Poughkeepsle aad stay with them until they started for New York* We went to the Morgan House and remained there until Thursday noon. I enjoyed myself vary much having them with me hut wished they could stay longer. They have now gone to New York and are staying with Mrs. Ward, who is keeping housethere. Mrs. Crabb disappointed them. Mamma had written her that...
Show moreVassar College. Dee. 4th 1870 Dear Papa, Mamma aad Carrie came to see ma last Wednesday and Miss Lyman gave me permission te go Into Poughkeepsle aad stay with them until they started for New York* We went to the Morgan House and remained there until Thursday noon. I enjoyed myself vary much having them with me hut wished they could stay longer. They have now gone to New York and are staying with Mrs. Ward, who is keeping housethere. Mrs. Crabb disappointed them. Mamma had written her that she aad Carrie would make her a visit and start from Phil, whan Mrs. Crabb wrote back that they had decided to leave on a certain day and could not wait for Mamma. Mamma bought ma a very pretty chair for a Christinas present. There is so kittle furniture in our parlor that it is quite an addition. All we are given in a parlor is a table aad whatnot and two chairs, if we want any thing else we must buy them ourselves. holding She also bought a veryhandsome photograph album ■■alsiaisg two hundred pictures, for a present for Aunt Maria Robinson. X will take it to her Christmas, for I shall spend my vacation with her in Binghamton. Aunt Maria promised to Invite Flora aad Viola Cook there at the same time and if they come it will be quite gay. Mamma and Carrie will be home just in time for a merry Xmas at home* What a alee day you will have together. I received a letter from Mrs. Grumble t? , e few days ego telling me that MissAugusta Palm had lost her sltuatloa aad had gone to Bastrep t? , to teach. It Is toe bad. Do you ever go out aad see Maj. and Mrs. Grumble? This is the first Sunday in the month aad I weat into Poughkeepsie to church. I have never been before but enjoyed it very much. The church is not any larger thaa ours at home aad aot as pretty as ours will be. Isn't it finished yet. Mamma said that Mr. Rogers had returned to Austin, aad so I shall expect my "testimonials" soon. With much love aad many kisses your aff. daughter Julie M. Pease. (Julia M. Pease, '75!
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Creator: Pease, Julia M
Date: December 14, 1870
Text: Vassar College. Dee. 14. 1870. My deer Papa, I have had no time this week lor writing letters aad as I wrote Mamma the latter part el last week thought that you would not feel anxious about me. By this time Mamma and Carrie must have reached home and you are having such a alee time together. Did you go to Brenham to meet them or did they come up In the stage? It seems as though the railroadto Austin never would be completed. Mamma said again that she would never make the trip NorthAuntll...
Show moreVassar College. Dee. 14. 1870. My deer Papa, I have had no time this week lor writing letters aad as I wrote Mamma the latter part el last week thought that you would not feel anxious about me. By this time Mamma and Carrie must have reached home and you are having such a alee time together. Did you go to Brenham to meet them or did they come up In the stage? It seems as though the railroadto Austin never would be completed. Mamma said again that she would never make the trip NorthAuntll after It was finished and yet this is (the, second time she has been over the road since she said so, and it Is apparently no nearer completion. I have had two letters from Aunt Maria concerning my visit to her this Christmas. She says that she does not hear from Aunt Carrie very often and so does not know how Grandma Is getting along. If she can not hear, I wonder who will. But if Aunt Maria would give her sister a part of the scolding she gave me for not writing to her I think she wouldwrite a little eftener. My sentences sound as badly as some that we are translating In "Caesar" bat it Is the fault of our language for not having more pronouns to express our meaning. For Instance In Caesar, "That If he needed anything from Caesar, he would have come to him} that If he wished any thing from him, he ought to come to him." Do you get the sense from it? Did you ever translate Caesar at all? I begin to like it quite well but our lessons are so long that we do not have time to understand It all perfectly. This year we translate fear books of Caesar, three of Cicero aad two of Virgil, aad it willkeep us working hard. Now that Munma has reached home X hope you will sead the "testimonials." I thought that X had explained it so that you would under* stand what X waated you to send. All that is required is a paper from either a teacher or minister from home. As X have never been to school In Austin you will have to get them from Mr. Rogers, stating anything he may choose to about me. But this paper is required, and nearly half the year has passed aad X have not furnished them. X shall expect three home each week letters now Instead of one^and shall look forward to them with so much pleasure. Next Wed.afternoon X start far Binghamton In company of five young ladies from that place who are attending school here. We go by way of Albany as it Is much shorter than by New York. X waat to write Carrie tonight and so must close. Your very loving daughter, Julie M. Pease. (Julia M. Pease, »75,
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Creator: Pease, Julia M
Date: January 7, 1871
Text: Vassar Collage Jan. 7, 1871. My dear Carrie, I am so lssy and stupid today that I simply write to yon to "let you know that I am well and hope you are the same." Tell Papa I intended to com? back on time and it was through no fault of mine that I came back a day late. Uncle asked Clara ,? , fc Will Robinson to engagethe express to take me to the depot Wednesday morning but there was seme misunder- standing and it did not come In time, so I was left, and had to remain until another...
Show moreVassar Collage Jan. 7, 1871. My dear Carrie, I am so lssy and stupid today that I simply write to yon to "let you know that I am well and hope you are the same." Tell Papa I intended to com? back on time and it was through no fault of mine that I came back a day late. Uncle asked Clara ,? , fc Will Robinson to engagethe express to take me to the depot Wednesday morning but there was seme misunder- standing and it did not come In time, so I was left, and had to remain until another day. One of my parlor mates is not back yet. The rest of us are settled down again. Carrie, I want you to learn to play chess weU for Marc says he never saw a woman who could play a good game andyou can disappoint him. Be sure and learn. The girls here who take riding lessons learn to leap, and I advise you to do the same, that Is If you can Induce our little ponies to do so. I am afraid Frince will be averse to it, for I have myself tried him over small ditches, not poles, and he did not like it. It is dark and I will close. Forgive this poor scrawl fc accept much love from your sister Julie. (Julia M. Pease, '75,
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Creator: Pease, Julia M
Date: January 15, 1871
Text: Vassar Collage Jan. IS. 1871. My dear sister, X think you might write to me oftener, if you were her and I at at least home I should write to you three times a dayAaad you do not write even once a w eeki Your last was a great treat and it was a nice iong letter. I don't see how Willie Rogers could ever become handsome. Why, I should as soon think of my growing kaadsoxael U your trunk had not come what did you wear to the hop at Gov. Hamilton's? You speak of John Ho ran. I have...
Show moreVassar Collage Jan. IS. 1871. My dear sister, X think you might write to me oftener, if you were her and I at at least home I should write to you three times a dayAaad you do not write even once a w eeki Your last was a great treat and it was a nice iong letter. I don't see how Willie Rogers could ever become handsome. Why, I should as soon think of my growing kaadsoxael U your trunk had not come what did you wear to the hop at Gov. Hamilton's? You speak of John Ho ran. I have always had such a desire to see him.As near as I can make out from your writing, you say that he is as handsome as a "small" man can be. I supposed from Mrs. Grumble's account of him that he was very tall Indeed. I hope soon to get a letter from you telling of the Hew Years calls. Waa the number of them very great? So many of our callers last year were army people that I should not think you could expect very many. Miss Beach, who 1 have told you about, lives in New York aad said that more calls were made there this year than last. They received sixty more than last New Year's day. What a number they must have had to feed I But they onlygave them cake and coffee. One of my classmates has had to go home. She lives In Ohio*and was staying here during the holidays, when one night the Pres. received a telegram saying that her mother was not expected to live, but not to tell Nannie how sick she was, only have her come home. She started faam the college la the night bat reached home too late—her mother was dead) Isn't it terrible. OhJ Carrie be very careful of Mamma and Papa, for we do not know how long they may be spared to us, aad what would we do without them! It makes me feel so badly when I think that if they or you shouldbe sick I am so far away* I cannot tell whether 1 ought to remain here another year or aot. Z would like to very well, but thea I think that Mamma aad Papa are growing old and we both ought to remain with them. Tell me ought I to remain or go home? But this is a mighty blue letter—perhaps because it is written with an empty stomach, for I did not get up to breakfast this morning. I must tell you the latest name that has been given to Miss Rollins, "the comedy in two parts." I suppose you will see the wit U you remember any- thing about her. The "tower of Babel" has at last... (Remainder of letter is lost, iJulla M. Pease, '75, \ \
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Creator: Pease, Julia M
Date: January 23, 1871
Text: Vassar College Jan. 23, 1871. My dear Mamma, Last week X was quite cross and quite determined that I would not write home lor a long time, because X received no letters Irom any of you* But yo — letters came on Sat and made me change my minu and II X had had time X would have written then, but take this time for doing so. Really I think with three at home to write X might hear eltener Irom you* and the mails now are so irregular that even H you write once a weak I do not hear Iromyou...
Show moreVassar College Jan. 23, 1871. My dear Mamma, Last week X was quite cross and quite determined that I would not write home lor a long time, because X received no letters Irom any of you* But yo — letters came on Sat and made me change my minu and II X had had time X would have written then, but take this time for doing so. Really I think with three at home to write X might hear eltener Irom you* and the mails now are so irregular that even H you write once a weak I do not hear Iromyou sometimes lor two. XC you are anxious to hear often from me, how much more so must X be who am away from all "kin- dred." You ask of Grandma's health. I have only heard once of her through Aune Maria, and she wrote ma that she had written Carries so before this time you must have heard all about her that X have. We have not needed any of your pleasant weather until yesterday: for the whole winter has bean mild, almost as warm as the winters at home. But Sat. night It commenced snowing and did net stop until tho ground was pretty deeply covered) it is so very cold that ioday weare excused from all but twenty minutes exercise out of doors* and Dr. Avry (Avery, says the thermometer stands at two degrees. On Sat. X borrowed a pair of skates and went down on the lake to try my luck. The skates did not fit very well and it being my first attempt my ankles ware very weak? but yet X managed to stand and although X was on tha ice a long time did not have one fall. Another time I hope to manage to strike out a little and then will prevent our skating muck, slide, but fear we will have snow now for a long time which^ So you did not have but one caller New Tears? Where are your friends Col. Dewey and Milton Swisher t? ,? Theyought to have come to try some of your "hot coffee," But perhaps they feared to burn themselves again with it. There is not one earthly thing to write you of interest, not even about my interesting self. I think I never was more breft t? , of ideas than at present. The college Is quiet, not a Joke of any kind going on. The last senior assay X might mention, for it was very good. Miss Jewett from Mi g? , (Wisconsin, was the composer, and as she has never been noted for anything but hair (of which she has a great quantity) it was a surprise to us all to hear as fine an essay from her pen. The subject was "Our working classes" and was very practical and interesting, taking us awayfor awhile from the college and college duties. Every Sat. night one or two essays are read by seniors and sometimes are quite fine. It is the only disagreable thing they have to do, but this is indeed terrible for they are read before all the scholars, the "faculty," and Pres. also being present, and same of the faculty are very severe critics. For want of anything better X send you some receipts, copied from Aunt's choicest ones. With much love to all your aff. daughter Julie. tJulia M. Pease, <75, This is miserable writing, and X fear you cannot decipher it, but my pen Is very bad. X have plenty of better ones and could get another If I chase to take the trouble——— I hope your trunk has come.
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Creator: Pease, Julia M
Date: January 25, 1871
Text: Vassar College, Jan. 25. 1871. Dear Carrie, Every time 1 think of you (and that is nearly all the time) I think what a little angel you are, and how cross and bad 1 used to be sometimes to you. Why are you so good and smart? How do you manage to be so? X never realised before 1 came here how very selfish 1 was. 1 suppose because you were all so kind and good to me at home that you excused everything from me, but now it seems as though there was nothing at all to me but selfishness and conceit...
Show moreVassar College, Jan. 25. 1871. Dear Carrie, Every time 1 think of you (and that is nearly all the time) I think what a little angel you are, and how cross and bad 1 used to be sometimes to you. Why are you so good and smart? How do you manage to be so? X never realised before 1 came here how very selfish 1 was. 1 suppose because you were all so kind and good to me at home that you excused everything from me, but now it seems as though there was nothing at all to me but selfishness and conceit. When X go home X shall try very hard and not let my wicked temperget the better of me. Here there is no cauae for getting angry because X am not intimate enough with any person and so the selfishness shows out plainer than it ever did before. But don't say a word against this in your letters, for it Is a good thing for me occasionally to see my badness. X have received several Austin papers, but from whom I do not know. The handwriting is certainly none of our family's and it is not C.C.A., and X cannot imagine who they are from; but do not care, so that X receive them. Susie Towns end wrote me that she had seen in an Austin paper that Mr. Swancoat t? , was building, or was going to, a house to be called the "Austin Atheneum," on the plan ofcity houses, with gas, hot and cold water and heated by steam. And that this was to be built on know College Hill. What do you know of it? and what is it intended for. I don't A the meaning of the word "Atheneum" but suppose it to be a place like the Hartford oae and I can't tee that they need hot and cold water, and where is the gas to come from? Austin must have become very much more of a city than It was when I left it, to have arrived at the dignity of gas, or perhaps one of those gas wells has been discovered? The Republican said thst within the last twelve months, one thousand buildings had been put up in Austin; I wonder if they counted all the little negro huts In to makethe number and some chicken houses too I expect. The Binghamton girls and myself have had a pleasure which not very many here have had; and that pleasure was the being present during Faculty meeting. Every Monday afternoon the faculty meet together, and at the last one the three young ladies and myself were called down; it was our being called for about the same affair, our going away for the holidays, andAwas a great surprise, for the Pres. had said before that he would not mention the sub- ject again. It was all Miss JLymans doing I am sure, for she is the most stern woman I think I ever saw. When we have all been told to be very quiet and not talk at all when we pass her doorfor she was very sick and could not bear any noise, it was a surprise to find her in faculty meetings but as some girl said, if she knew she were going to die within an hour, she would still go to facility meeting. But she is really very near the grave and we ought not to make the going down to it any harder for her. Perhaps you have seen in a New York paper the notice of a lecture by one of the Vassar teachers. Miss Swasey £wayae, the elocution teacher went down to N.Y. and delivered a lecture. I don't remember the name it given to but it was about women; what they had done Irom the earliest ages, andhow sometimes they have been superior to men in reso- lution and courage. We all thought that it would be very good, but Miss Beach said that her father attended, and he wrote her that the hall where Miss Swusey lectured was no larger than ours at the Colie^, that there ol were only sixty persons in attendance and^those many looked as though they could not afford to pay the price of admittance, one dollar, and so were probably there by invitation. It is too bad that she did not succeed lor she was intending to make lecturing her business. 1 lease look among my papers in my bureau drawer and if you can find it send the pattern of a transparency tohang in the window. I have at home a very pretty pattern of a cross with leaves and flowers about it, and want it now to make one for my window. I am almost sure that the pattern is with my iraps in one of the drawers of my "yellow bureau." There is splendid sleighing now and tonight the freshman class have a sleighride; they expect to have a grand time, but 1 do not envy them at all because the night is bitter cold. It seems sometimes as though our time was entirely wasted in try- ing to learn Latin. Today we learned one little iact, which was, the exact meaning ol the word "veto." When the Pres. writes "veto" on a bill it is the same assaying "I forbid," lor it is the Latin word meaning that. I presume you knew all about it belore, but I did not. All the good though that Latin is expected to do us is to discipline the mind, but mine can never be disciplined* As Miss Lord* our Latin teacher said, the other day, here they intendAto make us think, lor nothing is excused which results from thoughtlessness or forgetfulness. X shall write to Fapa and will now close. This letter has been in my desk for several days, and today have received letu^rs from home and find answers to some of my questions, but I cannot afford to write my letter over. With much love Julie ,Julia M. Fease, 'TSj
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Creator: Pease, Julia M
Date: Jan. 27, 1871
Text: Vassar College, Feb. 11, 1871. My dear papa, Some of the girls here keep a sort f journal and send it home every week, but I should^there could be very little of Interest In It. Mine would always be the same for each day. "Got up, dressed, studied, eat, walked, went to bed" would be written over and over until It would only be a waste of paper to write again. But I really think that if I have a letter always commenced I can little by little fill it up whereas when I...
Show moreVassar College, Feb. 11, 1871. My dear papa, Some of the girls here keep a sort f journal and send it home every week, but I should^there could be very little of Interest In It. Mine would always be the same for each day. "Got up, dressed, studied, eat, walked, went to bed" would be written over and over until It would only be a waste of paper to write again. But I really think that if I have a letter always commenced I can little by little fill it up whereas when I sit down to write one in a hurry all my ideas are found to have fled. The most important thing at present is the snow* It is now falling fast and it does not look much like stopping before morning, even if it does then. The ground now must be covered about an inch thick and the drives and paths about t.ha college are not perceptible, the snow being perfectly smooth everywhere. Last night the freshman class took a sleighride and had a fine time although it was very cold. Prof. Farrell jFarrar? > who iccompagnted them was very thoughtful and provided each person with a hot brick for th^ feet which with warm wrappings kept them talarally comfortable. kN<oU on side of paper,: The seniors also went sleighing and had Pres.(I find that I have maaaged to &->ell accompanied wrong, and I must have been thinking of the French wove* when I wrote i\)Rayioond hh an escort; he was very pleasant and it is said that he even unbent Ms dignity so much vis to sing "the little brown jug," with them. Bessie Higg and I are getting up a sleighride, for tomorrow night if the storm abates otherwise we will have it neat week. But we meet with many difficulties. In the first place we must have a professor go with us aad have been to two of them and they cannot go, so we have two more to try, as the other one is already engaged. Prof. Bacchus ,Backus, Is rather a favorite among the students and is considered very witty. When I asked him if he would go he said that "he would be very happy to do so, but would not be at the college the next day and really could not be intwo places s.t once.*" It: might have been a smart speech for a child ten years to make oldAbut certainly was not for a Professor. I am in none of his classes now next semnstsr when I take Rhetoric will be. It is so very cold that, it is almost Impossible to keep the College comfortable. In the North end of the building the water froze solid in the pit-hers and the girls carmot remain in their rooms at all. Even in the parlors; with all the heat turned on the thermisner ^ would not be above 50°. My room is in the centre of the house and is very warm indeed. I have to open tho window several times during the day because the heat Is op?re*ive. Last night Miss Morse toldone young lady to come up and steep with me but much to my joy she did not come. I am afraid that I will not be so fortunate tonight but will have some one put with me. The College i« heated by a steam boiler in the centre and a furnace at each end and the rocms heated by steam are quite warm. All the heat that could possibly be put on was turned on yesterday and yet it was freeaing all day in about half the rooms in the College. The cold is not the only thing that wa are troubled with, but we may all die lor want ol water. There has been a great drought all the fall and we have been allowed only one bath a weekbut they told us as soon as snow came we would be all right again) the snow has come but no sun to melt It and Instead of being better off, we are wcrse. Sach girl is allowed one gallon of warm water a day and no more, and If the weather does not change, I fear it will be our morning duty to take a bucket out and fill it with snow which when melted we can use for bathing purposes. But that would be an improvement upon break* ing the ice in the pitchers for use, as some have to do. There is so much water used for the boilers and furnaces and making gas that unless the snow halts soon and supplies us with water there Is some danger of thebreaking up of the College, ft would be a strange thing to do but yet a lack of water is a fearful thing. I hope that Prof. Swancoat j? , will have Ms College open In a year and then I will come back and attend that Instead of Vcssar, The "Republican" comes as regularly as anything from Texas, and I am very ^lad to get ft. If you cannot write oftener than once s week please have Mamma and Carrie do so, for I can sA,udy a great deal better after getting my nice home letters. With much love to all ever your loving Tulle.I think tl• ^ snow must be melting some, for a great many oooms and parts ol the corridors sire leaking, So I hope we will soon have water enough to supply aV, demands.
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Creator: Pease, Julia M
Date: January 31, 1871
Text: Janvier 31. ,1871, Ma chfere Carrie, Je n'ai jamais 6crit une lsttre en franpais, mals aujourd'hui je croyais que j'cssaleraic de le fa Ire. Je sals que ma lettre sera remplie de fautes, mais j'espère que la prochaine sera écrite mieux. Car ne répondrez-vous pas cette lettre en français? J'ai une nouvelle compagne de chambre, Mademoiselle Woolaey par nom.Janvier 31. ,1871, Ma chfere Carrie, Je n'ai jamais 6crit une lsttre en franpais, mals aujourd'hui je...
Show moreJanvier 31. ,1871, Ma chfere Carrie, Je n'ai jamais 6crit une lsttre en franpais, mals aujourd'hui je croyais que j'cssaleraic de le fa Ire. Je sals que ma lettre sera remplie de fautes, mais j'espère que la prochaine sera écrite mieux. Car ne répondrez-vous pas cette lettre en français? J'ai une nouvelle compagne de chambre, Mademoiselle Woolaey par nom.Janvier 31. ,1871, Ma chfere Carrie, Je n'ai jamais 6crit une lsttre en franpais, mals aujourd'hui je croyais que j'cssaleraic de le fa Ire. Je sals que ma lettre sera remplie de fautes, mais j'espère que la prochaine sera écrite mieux. Car ne répondrez-vous pas cette lettre en français? J'ai une nouvelle compagne de chambre, Mademoiselle Woolaey par nom. Avez-vous jamais lu "Little Women"? Mile. Woolsey est tant comme "fori t? Elle dit que sa pins grande douleur depuls sa naissanee a été, qu'elle n'6tait pas un garçon. Elle a l'air d'un garçon, et elle agie comme un garçon. Mais Je ne peux vous dire de lui en fran^ais et J'attendrai jusqu'à ce que j'écrirai en anglais. Mademoiselle Kapp notre lnstltutrice française rirait, de bon coeur, je prenne, si elle verrait cette lettre. Je trouve que depuis lepremier Janvier J'ai écrit sept lettres a ma maison et Je n'ai reçu que dix lettres de ma maison, quand il y a trols personnes pour écrire a moi. "Comment est-ce pour haut?" comme ma compagne de chambre dirait. Cette lettre est presque le plus stupide que j'ai Jamais écrit. Je crois si grasse que Je puis a peine voir. Mes joues sont très grasses. Quelqu'un m'a dit qu'il est parceque je bois tant de lait, et je pense quecela est aussi le raison pourquoi J'ai si sommeil. Je ne boirai pas du lait encore mais je prendrai du thé. Ma premiere interrogation vient ce matin a onze heure et cinq minutes, et j'en ecrira a maman. Ne monte pas cette lettre a quelqu'un, mais reponde bientôt. Donne mon amour a chaque personne a la maison et accepte beau- coup pour toi-meme. Pense souvent a moi. Julie M. Pease {Julia M. Pease, *75j
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Creator: Pease, Julia M
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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Creator: Pease, Julia M
Date: February 10, 1871
Text: J.M. Pease 10 Feb. 11- Feb. 10 1871 My dear Sister, I have just finished a letter to Papa and have nothing in the world to write you. After reading that sentence of course you will wonder what incites me to write. I do not know what does. Only I do not feel like doing anything tonight, and it is not yet time to go to bed. Why did you have your hair cut? If I were with you now I should give you a most terrible scolding and would do so by letter, only if my letter should not reach you safely...
Show moreJ.M. Pease 10 Feb. 11- Feb. 10 1871 My dear Sister, I have just finished a letter to Papa and have nothing in the world to write you. After reading that sentence of course you will wonder what incites me to write. I do not know what does. Only I do not feel like doing anything tonight, and it is not yet time to go to bed. Why did you have your hair cut? If I were with you now I should give you a most terrible scolding and would do so by letter, only if my letter should not reach you safely but fall into the hands of someone who does not know me. I mightacquire the reputation of a "scolder" and that would not be nice. Your hair looked so nicely curled and it could not have been a great deal [?] to put up three or four paper each night. Your song "Castles in the Air" is with my music. Also since the songs and some of the pieces of often played most. I'm (?) so sorry for they are of no use to me. If i had any way of doing so I would send them to you but cannot at present. I will copy the words and put them in the envelope with these (?). The bell has rung for nine o'clock and I am sleepy enough to go to bed now. A (?) ten before seven is early at this season of the year for breakfast.pity me for I have to breakfast at that unsuitable hour. My letter to Papa ends so abruptly it made me laugh out. I fear this was as badly. Lovingly, Julie
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Creator: Pease, Julia M
Date: February 10, 1871
Text: Vassar College, Feb. 10. 1871. My dear Fapa, It is with greet pleasure that I hare just received my weekly letter from home. It is quite amusing to see how each one fears to tell me something which the others have written me and so, among so many, I lose what you all intend to have me Informed of. Mamma in her letter* speaks of certain things which she will papa not give me a lengthy discriptlon of, because^wishes to do so} he however does not mention them, nor Carrie either. And so the only...
Show moreVassar College, Feb. 10. 1871. My dear Fapa, It is with greet pleasure that I hare just received my weekly letter from home. It is quite amusing to see how each one fears to tell me something which the others have written me and so, among so many, I lose what you all intend to have me Informed of. Mamma in her letter* speaks of certain things which she will papa not give me a lengthy discriptlon of, because^wishes to do so} he however does not mention them, nor Carrie either. And so the only one ofthese Interesting matters of which I am Informed Is the costume of Mrs. Tracy and daughters. Of course I am very much Interested la this lady, but had never before heard that Tracy had a family. When I wrote to you about dropping Double Latin, I was very much discouraged, but now lam getting along better and have no wish to dis- continue it. Our studies have been arranged far the new semister: mine are the same as last semister, except that I have Rhetoric In addition. They now are French, Double Latin, Rhetoric and Drawing. Then there are some little things which come occasionally. Linear Drawing once a week,Vocal Exercises, and Choral Singing, the same, and Gymnastics three times. I find from the Texas papers that Gen. Reynolds has beex^lected U.S. Senator. How did it happen? and will he be allowed to take his seat? The 11 Republican'1 seemed to think not. I thought all the political parties la Texas were opposed to Gen. Reynolds. The cold has abated somewhat, but the ground Is still deeply covered with snow aad we occasionally have a day which makes me long lor dear eld Texas. I write home so of tea that I can hardly remember aay thing to tell you now bat what I have writ- ten before. Z think I wrote you of my slelghride aad the next thing of aayimportance is the burning of the Trigonometry by the Sophmore class, after having finished studying it. Last Sat. was the day appelated for the burning. I would like to give you a long description of the whole affair, but have not room on my paper. The meaner of proceeding was quite regal, A court was held, and the speeches by both plaintiff and defendaat were very flae aad very Shakespearian. The prlsoaer Trigonometry was represented by a young lady dressed la black with the book to be burned attached to her side. Of course the verdict by the jury was guilty} the • V Judge pronounced the sentence burning, and accordiagly the poor "Trig.t* was burned. The fire was kindledaad while the book was burning, a i composed for the occasion was sung aad maay hurrahs seat up. Love to all and much to yourself. Julie (Julia M. Pease, <?5 I ,.. \ ' v 'A V
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Creator: Pease, Julia M
Date: February 11, 1871
Text: Vassar College, Feb. 11, 1871. My dear Mamma, X will commence a letter to yon this evening and III do not have time to finish It before the bell rings lor ten ocloek, X will leave it and write whenever I have time and anything to say. I have Just come over from the Gymnasium where the girls have been dancing. I am as load aa ever I was ol dancing and wish so much to learn to dance well* It seems strange that there Is no dancing master here, II there was one he would be well patronised, lor a...
Show moreVassar College, Feb. 11, 1871. My dear Mamma, X will commence a letter to yon this evening and III do not have time to finish It before the bell rings lor ten ocloek, X will leave it and write whenever I have time and anything to say. I have Just come over from the Gymnasium where the girls have been dancing. I am as load aa ever I was ol dancing and wish so much to learn to dance well* It seems strange that there Is no dancing master here, II there was one he would be well patronised, lor a great many girls say that they wish to learn. I suppose the Trustees think that our heads and leetcannot both be trained at once. Our lady principal Miss Lyman is very ill, and we suppose is not expected to live but a lew days. We do not really know much about her health, but this evening in Chapel Prol. Orton prayed particularly lor her, something which has never been done before. It & not the case with almost all consumptives that a short time before their death, they seem much better? 1 think I have heard so. About a week ago Miss Lyman was better than she has been for a long, long time. She even went to Faculty Meeting and was on her Corridor several times during the day. But since she has been growing worse, until now we would not be astonished any morning to hear that she was no more. Last evening a lecture was delivered before the College by Bishop Huntingdon ol Central New York. I was very much pleased with the lecture, butwas so very sleepy that . . . parts ol the letter are destroyed, did not pay it the , . . attention. I am told . . . he will preach tomorro . . . such a pleasure to hav . . . -copal service now, whea we have it so seldom. It will be quite wonderful if I am not a Baptist whea I retara home, for almost everyoae here belongs to that church. The Presideat aad I think all the Frofessors are Baptist. W ed. Whea I stopped writiag 1 was telling of how we expected to pass Sunday, and new I will tell you how we did paas it. In the morning Bishop Huntingdon (I don't know whether his name is spelled with a T or d.) preached. The text was, "The Master is come aad calleth for thee," and the sermon was very fine, although very long, it did not seem so. We were In Chapel two hours aad I think our service is net more than one hour long. Mrs. Blxby, a missionary fromBurmah made an address in the evening. She told us a great deal that was Interesting about the Burmese, of their religion and customs. They believe in transmigration and accord- ing to the manner in which they have lived in this world they will be placed In the next. The women try to be very good so that when they are bora again they may be meni And this is their greatest hope. After her address Mrs. Bixby showed and explained to us many articles which she had brought with her from Burmah. I don't know what you, who have such a horror of wearing earrings In the very civilised manner In which we wear them. Many of would think of those we were shown. A The earrings are larger around than my thumb, aad are pat through a hole made la the earl. The hole Is made ■mall at first bat gradually Increased In slae. They manufacture silk, which is really very nice. I have come tothe end of my paper and will , i .. , 1 I , • ', ' i • i . ■ . close my description of last Sunday by saying that It was almost the pleasantest day I have passed In the College. Tour loving daughter Julia. (Julia M. Pease, '75,
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Creator: Pease, Julia M
Date: February 15, 1871
Text: Feb. 19* 1871 * 2 Dear Carrie, Your nice long letter came today, and made me very happy. Can't you keep a sort of Journal of what you do each day, and send it to me once or twice 4*, week? I wish I had been at home to attend the supper for the benefit of St. David's church. But I suppose I would have been a wall- flower the same as EUen Graham. Was Long Shanks there? If so, I don't see how you could have been one. Do you like that Hew York merchant, Mr. Davenport? In one of...
Show moreFeb. 19* 1871 * 2 Dear Carrie, Your nice long letter came today, and made me very happy. Can't you keep a sort of Journal of what you do each day, and send it to me once or twice 4*, week? I wish I had been at home to attend the supper for the benefit of St. David's church. But I suppose I would have been a wall- flower the same as EUen Graham. Was Long Shanks there? If so, I don't see how you could have been one. Do you like that Hew York merchant, Mr. Davenport? In one of Mamma's letters she mentioned that he had stayedall night at Wood-Lawn. You ought to have made yourself agreable enough to have engaged him as escort to one of the numerous hops which are given by the members of St. David's. Have I ever written you that the "Tower of Babel" has left College? Her health had been very poor for some time, and so when her father came to see her, he thought it would be best to take her away. His coming hap* pened very opportunely, for that very morning Annie had received a severe scolding from Miss Morse and had been told by her that her reputation end occasion character and standing, fee, fcc, in the CoUege were gone. TheAfor all this was that shehad slept with me the previous night. It is a rule that no stu- dent shall sleep out of her own room without permission, but during the cold weather many whose rooms were cold, were going into warm ones. It was during that time and as Annie's room was about as bad as outdoors, we thought there was no harm In her staying with me. We talked until quite late and "Pussy" Morse, who Is always prying about, found us out. She, however, said nothing to me upon the subject. Fape's and mamma's letters have just reached me. It seems such an effort for them to write to me, that X do not expect to hear from them very often. Mamma says that youare writing to me very often during the week, she either thinks that you are doing so when you are eagaged in some other manner, or else you do not send them when written. I wish you would send whatever you may chance to write. It makes ao difference to me whether it is written well In all: it is from home and from my dear sister Carrie, and that is sufficient for me. Besides when 1 have time, If there are any mistakes I can amuse myself correcting them; that is, If I can. Our Rhetoric teacher gives us sentences to correct and I had rather correct yours, if wrong, than any she may give us. As yet I can only managecapitals and commas aad those not thoroughly, so do not be horrified, If you find my letters well besprinkled with these articles, for as I do not know where to put any other maths* I put these, as there must be something. {Tulia M. Pease, '79,
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Creator: Pease, Julia M
Date: February 19, 1871
Text: Vassar College, Feb. 11, 1871. My dear Carrie, By the time this reaches you I presume you will be at home, resting after the gaieties of Galveston. I hope you found out something of Etta Rise ,7 ,. It is now almost ss hsrd work for me to write a letter as a composition for I cannot dignify my productions with the name of essay. There is literally nothing to write about. I cannot discourse upon yesterdays sermon as 1 have neither the power nor desire. That is the only variety this week, being...
Show moreVassar College, Feb. 11, 1871. My dear Carrie, By the time this reaches you I presume you will be at home, resting after the gaieties of Galveston. I hope you found out something of Etta Rise ,7 ,. It is now almost ss hsrd work for me to write a letter as a composition for I cannot dignify my productions with the name of essay. There is literally nothing to write about. I cannot discourse upon yesterdays sermon as 1 have neither the power nor desire. That is the only variety this week, being by Prof. Orton in place of the Presi- dent. professor Orton generally keeps us wider awake than the Presi- dent, for he brings home truths which we cannot help hearing even if we soon forget them. We have been informed that Bible classes begins very soon. It will however be voluntary which is a great point. We can also choose our own teachers. I have chosen Miss Lord but do not know whether I caa be in her class. She is a very lovely woman, and is one of my five "admirations." Profs. Hinkle It Van XngenpDr. Avery, Miss Kapp are the others. Moilie Hill has begun Germsn this semester and that makes me perfectly wild overit. You know it has always been my great desire to study it, and it is so hard to have someone in the parlor studying it and not be able. I go around continually trying to pronounce "Ich," "Nicht" and many other words which hsve that peculiarly German sound of ch. I shall not be able to study it for a long time. Why do jou not begin German? There are ever so many good German teachers at home* Mrs. Kupfer and Prof. Hamvasy fee and I know you caaaot help lovlag it. There are so many beautiful things to read la German and so many educated per sous at home to speak it with. Do begin it. The snew isalmost all gone agaia* and the days are again Warm and pleasant. It seems very hard work for it to be cold and we are paid for every cold day by several warm ones, . i - 1 ; that is, warm for a northern winter. You may or may aot have received a note from a friend of mine here, Laura Howe wrote you a note and told me she sent it in which she enquired concerning the number of my brotherow You know the six are a myth and I presume thought her letter (if every received) rather imperti- nent. It was not intended to be so and was written in fun. Answering it may be at your pleasure. Laura G. (middle initial, is reallya freak of Dame Nature. I never saw such a specimen before but we manage to be very good friends. With love and kisses for all Your loving sister. {KMia M. Pease, '75, I send a programme of the string band concert given here last week. ,1871,Feb. 19. It is just s week since the letter to Mamma, which I send with this, was written, and nearly as long since the one lor you was begun. I will finish yours today and send in the morning. I am very sorry that I could not find time to finish these letters and send during the week, for it |is, a longer time than ever before between my letters home. It seems a most discouraging task to write to you, Carrie, for I have such lots of things to say that I can never write them all. Ohi if you were only here to talk to, it would be so very nice. There are two very pleasant girls here from Arkansas. Ihave not known them very well until lately, but like them so much. They are sisters and have always been together, just as we have, and it makes me homesick to see them together having such a loving time. I like the younger one, Mary Hughey, better than any girl I have become acquainted with, and she is, indeed, the only one whom I should care to know after leaving school. Last Friday night I attended one of the Societies in the Hall. They acted several scenes from a story called "Marion Berkly," and did it very well. The story is one of school life. Marion is at a boarding school where they are not allowed to receive boxes from home, and one of her offenses is receiving one.It is done secretly and the girls bring it upstairs themselves and in doing so, drop it on one of the girl's feet and hurt her quite badly. Her foot swells so much that she can not wear her own shoe and stocking and with great diffi- one culty they procure^of the Lady Principal's, without her knowledge . Then they have the table nicely set for a champagne supper, when in comes the 1 Principal. Marion turns the matter off very nicely by asking her why she came so early, that they were going down to invite her up as soon as they were ready. She is pacified by the present of a chicken and cake and before she leaves condescends to drink a glass of champagne with them. It was verytempting, you may be sure, to have all those nice things In view and yet not have any to eat. There were many other nice scenes but I have not room to describe them. I will only say that the gen tlemen looked and did very nicely and could hardly have been told from the "bona fide" article. Between the first and second parts of the entertainzmn t Miss Beach personated the U.S. flag and spoke, "When freedom from her mountain high." She looked perfectly beautiful and her speaking was very goods only she did not knew the piece perfectly.—— I believe I have never written you much about my new room-mate, and now I cannot write of heras that for she told me this morning that she Is to be moved again. I like Miss Woolsey very well, but will be glad to be alone again. She goes on the plan that everything is common and so I find her using my things quite comfortably. My blacking bottle I find quite empty although she has never asked me for permission to use It. I forgot to wind my watch a few nights ago, but wound it in the morning and did not set it, as I did not know th~ right time. Much to my amaaement, about noon, thinking to set it, l\ found it had already been done for me! It seemed rather a cool proceeding on her part. My watch has one peculiarity to itself. It I wear it only half ; , ' ' \ A an hour it will stop, and not move until taken off—but If I leave it on the bureau it never stops. So I am forced to lay it away and use it only asa clock* It is perfectly useless as a watch to be carried about on the per- son. Do you ever go to see Mrs. Grumbles? You have never written me of doing so9 but I wish you would go often. It gives the old lady such pleasure, and when she has so few pleasures, 1 should think you would add to them whenever you can. We have two holidays this week. Washing- ton's birthday, which comes on Wednesday and Thursday Is the day of Prayer for Colleges. The latter can hardly be called a holiday as we must be all the morning in Chapel. And Wednesday Is one of our church fasts. \ It is the first day of Lent. I do not think I shall go to church that day ^ because I have not anything very suitable to wear. Of course we can not attend service during Lent and we have nothing at all tempting to eat which would be a hardship to deny ourselves and so I think of no particular way in which to pass Lent differently from any other time. From this time on to the end of the year I expect to be very busy and fear that I shall not be able to write more than once a week to you all at home. Wilfe love to all, Julie. (Julia M. Pease, '75,
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Creator: Pease, Julia M
Date: February 24, 1871
Text: Vassar College. Feb. 24, 1871. Dear Carrie, Your letter with the pattern of the transparency came just in the right time. It came Wed. morning and that day was a holiday, so that I found time enough in the afternoon to make one. I was only about two hours making it, don't you think that was quick to do it? My room begins to look a little more cheerful than it did when you were here. X have put those two little bird pictures which mamma brought sue, into the straw frames the JF res. and...
Show moreVassar College. Feb. 24, 1871. Dear Carrie, Your letter with the pattern of the transparency came just in the right time. It came Wed. morning and that day was a holiday, so that I found time enough in the afternoon to make one. I was only about two hours making it, don't you think that was quick to do it? My room begins to look a little more cheerful than it did when you were here. X have put those two little bird pictures which mamma brought sue, into the straw frames the JF res. and Miss Lyman were in and the two latter I have hadframed in a very simple style called "passe-partout." My two favorites, Prof. Van Ingen ,van Ingen, and Miss Kapp, are in a white thread frame. X have made of perforated board a letter bag which is a very pretty orna- ment but is not a particle of use. The bracket in the corner with the wolict set finishes the ornamental part of my furniture. X want now a larger picture and a colored motto and I hope to get them during the April vacation. X should feel very well contented if you were only here to share my parlor and bedroom. We might have such nice times together in my doay little rooms. I would not give them up for any others except a single room on the secondcorridor and there is no chance of my getting such a room. George W. Curtis has arrived. He came into the Dining room after we were all seated, and if he is at all bashful he must have been somewhat discomposed by the glances given him. There was indeed a great deal of peeping around to see him, for he is very handsome and rather young, and quite a sight to us, shut out from all intercourse with the other sex.— In mentioning the little articles X have in my parlor, I forgot a little frame made of cardboard, In which I have put Papa's photograph. These frames are all the rage here now and as they are very little work and quite pretty I have made several. Until about two weeks beforethe examinations, I had not done one bit of fancy work, but while our classes were being arranged I found some spare time and made some little things, a cover and cushion for my bureau fee. Now 1 find very little time, and if I can only get into the freshman trench class, will have still less. It seems as though some of my letters could not have reached you. I wrote you soon after my return great loag letters telllag of all I had doae while at Bingham ton. You ask of what sewing I did while there and what I had done to my teeth, and I have writtea you all about it loag ago. I only had one tooth filled, but that was a very bad one. There is now nothingof it but the shell, the inner part is of gold. I told you that my blue silk had been made over very prettily and my old brewn altered some, for a school dress, and the calico made and this is all the sewing that I accomplished. I wrote mamma at that time about what I wanted to do about spring clothes but she had never written me anything about them. Please answer my question, for I do not ask any but those I want answered, and do not think that because it is so long after my letters are written that I have forgotten them. Perhaps the reason of your not knowing what I write is that you cannot read my writing, and not that my letters have not reached you. My handwriting is ruined by scribbling so much, but Ishall try and write plainer in future. Do not fail to tell me if you cannot read my scrawling. I am expecting a french letter from you every day. Thanks for the green- not backs. I willAweary you by writing any more at present, it must be a tedious job, trying to decipher this crossed page, but I am very econom- ical with my postage stamps and more than two sheets of this thick paper needs two stamps. When this paper is gone I intend to get french for it is much cheaper in the end. I have my home letters for this week and cannot expect another until next W ed. I wish that you could find time to write oftener. With much love to all, Julie lJulia M. Pease, '75,
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Creator: Pease, Julia M
Date: February 24, 1871
Text: Vassar College, Feb. 11, 1871. My dear £ spa. Your letter and Mamma1* were received this morning, and as I have a little spare time now I will answer them. I am sorry to hear that Mamma has been sick, but hope it was not very bad. She usually has an attack towards spring, but as she has been North all summer I thought that she would escape it this winter. In one of your letters you say that you are all coming North next summer, do you mean this coming one or the one after? I should suppose...
Show moreVassar College, Feb. 11, 1871. My dear £ spa. Your letter and Mamma1* were received this morning, and as I have a little spare time now I will answer them. I am sorry to hear that Mamma has been sick, but hope it was not very bad. She usually has an attack towards spring, but as she has been North all summer I thought that she would escape it this winter. In one of your letters you say that you are all coming North next summer, do you mean this coming one or the one after? I should suppose you meant what you said, but that mamma aad Carriesaid that they would not travel over the road so soon again. I do hope you will all come far I want to see you so much. Our lady principal, Miss Lyman, died last Tuesday evening. She has been sick a long, long time aad we should rejoice with her in being free from all pain and sorrows but her death is a severe loss to Vassar College. No one has done so much to give the College its reputation as Miss Lyman, and her equal can aever be found to fill the place. The funeral services were held in the Chapel on Wednesday, and immediately after, her body was carried to the train, to be taken to Montreal her former home. The students can not do much to show their respect for Miss Lyman and sorrow ather death, but as a slight tribute to her, they procured all the flowers they could in Poughkeepsie and then ssnt on an order to Montreal for flowers to be furnished there for the funeral. We all wear a mourning badge for thirty days. Wednesday and Thursday were both holidays, Wednesday beiag Washington's birthday, aad Thursday, the <day, of prayer for Colleges. We had beea looking forward to them for a long time, but as Miss Lymaawas lying dead In the house at the time the days were rather sorrowful oaes. The sermon on Thursday was preached by a prespyterian minister from Hew York city, Dr. Hall. Toaight a lecture ' , i I , f • I i ' < > ■ «' ' . ' ' is to be delivered by George Curtis which we are all looking forward to ■ ; i ' .i i I » x • , * with great eagerness. X think he never lectured in Hartford while we were there} if he did, I never heard him. X am sorry that the "Republicaa" is ao longer In being. Who will have the republican.paper now or will there not be aay? How alee it will be to have grape viaes so aear the house. X cer- tainly hope they will be beariag whea I go home, but fear they will aot unless X remain aad graduate. About three weeks ago myself with two other young ladies were examined for the Freshman class la French. The french teacher told us were qualified to that wejlffti be admitted and weote the President to the same effect. Receiving ao aaswer from him, we wrote agaia aad thea received a note saying that he had ao recollectloa of seeiag Mademoiselle's note and that hewould have to have another from her. She has lost the paper la which she put our marks aad so X fear there is no chance of our entering the class to which we are eatltled. Of course the Pres. will aot admit us ualess he Feb. 24, 1871 - 3 another examination. It is too bad In the Pres. to be so careless. I must I s ; , , ' ; . , ' , study a while now and so will close with much love your JulieI ought to have acknowledged the receipt ol your note to Mr. Levenson in regard to the College bills, long ago, but even now had nearly forgotten it. The bUis are not due until the first ol April and then I can send them to him. Today a young lady, who has been home some time on account ol her health, returned. She said that she met a very nice gentleman in the cars who Is acquainted with you. I do not see hew they happened to speak of such a thing as she had no idea, until this gentleman told her, that my father had been Governor of Texas.Unfortunately the young lady could not remember the name of this gentleman. Ha now resides In Vermont, but formerly lived In Michigan. He went to Texas lor his health and was acquainted with you In Austin. Have you any Idea, from this very clear cescription, of who the man Is? It Is strange that there Is so little to tell me in regard to home matters! The trouble with you seems to be to find enough to say to IU1 two small pages* while with me it Is when to stop. My long stupid letters must be very tiresome, but it is a great comfort to me to write them. Did you ever know a lady who did not write a postscript? Mine are almost as long as the latter itse!f~«*« ,julla M. Pease, '75,
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Creator: Pease, Julia M
Date: March 5, 1871
Text: March 5, 1871 Sunday Dear Mamma, It la almost night, and I havo not yet written my letters hvmel I have all my letters to write on the Sabbath day, because 1 am now so busy that X can Had no other time. You all seem to have become roused at last* for your letters of the 17th and 19th were quite long. I hope the Improvement in the number of pages will be a lasting one. Papa wrote that my letters did not reach you regularly, that is not the case with yours. in getting I always expect, and am...
Show moreMarch 5, 1871 Sunday Dear Mamma, It la almost night, and I havo not yet written my letters hvmel I have all my letters to write on the Sabbath day, because 1 am now so busy that X can Had no other time. You all seem to have become roused at last* for your letters of the 17th and 19th were quite long. I hope the Improvement in the number of pages will be a lasting one. Papa wrote that my letters did not reach you regularly, that is not the case with yours. in getting I always expect, and am seldom disappointed, a letter from home on ThursdayThose written on Sunday never fall to reach ma Thursday— sometimes the others are behind time. It »eentft I have not written you all I know of Eugenia Epperson. Mary Rowsea wrote me that Miss Annie (I don't remember the last name, but you will know that I mean the young lady who boards wfih Mrs. Brown) received a letter from her written at Anchorage, Kentucky. She is attending school there. As I had promised Immediately aftor learning her direction Eugenia I would write to her, I dl^ but have not yet received an answer. I did not moan that X wanted another winter dross although I need one, I had no Idea of getting ona. Of course X must have one for spring and when X wrote yon as I then expectedAtospend tha April holidays In New York, I thought the dress would have to be made before going. X have decided to remain In the College at that time and then can get my dress made. For many reasons it seems best not to leave the College. I would need a good many things and would spend about twice as much money as If I remained here. I can rest as well here as anywhere, and rest is the most important result ol the vacation* I will show yoa how each day is divided and thea you will see that X have not very much time to spare. Sat. and Sunday we breakfast at eight oclock, other days at quarter before seven. Dinner Is at one : t if. . *' _' ' 1 and supper six every day. The school day la divided Into ten periods ol 40 minutes each. All are study periods except the sixth, that, aad Irom eight to nine In the morning are the only recreatioa periods we have during the day except twenty minutes before dinner and supper. In the evening there Is study hour from eight to nine, the rest ol the time Is , » J I ii f1 ( C > ' our own, but it generally has to be spent la learning lessons. They seem determined that we shall have enough religious ins true- i < . •• r: » i -t < .• » tion. Fifteen services that we mast attend weekly; there are, chapel twice a day and three times Sunday, and Bible Class. Then there is a prayer meeting every evening and, now during Lent, we Epls. have service every Sat. night.I must write Carrie a letter and go to prayer meeting besides making some calls this evening and so must end this letter here. Very lovingly Julie M. P. (Julia M. Pease, '75,
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Creator: Pease, Julia M
Date: March 5, 1871
Text: Vassar College. March 7, 5. Dear Carrie* I sigh every time I receive a letter from you to find what nice letters and interesting ones you can write me, while mine to you are such stupids. You ought to study Rhetoric, principally for the sake of punctua- be tion, and then write a little plainer and your Utters wouldA"perfect.»* I must praise your last one, there was not a word hut what X could read. Have you tried the "second string to your bow," shooting? It * ri i .... .j * i ...
Show moreVassar College. March 7, 5. Dear Carrie* I sigh every time I receive a letter from you to find what nice letters and interesting ones you can write me, while mine to you are such stupids. You ought to study Rhetoric, principally for the sake of punctua- be tion, and then write a little plainer and your Utters wouldA"perfect.»* I must praise your last one, there was not a word hut what X could read. Have you tried the "second string to your bow," shooting? It * ri i .... .j * i > would have been the only one I should have attempted. "No studying law for me."h a year, for as you are so apt a student no longer time will be required for understanding law thoroughly, 1 shall hear of Miss Carrie Pease practising law at the bar, and when I return home I hope to greet you as my sister, "Judge" Pease. Mamma wrrte that George G. had invited you to attend a ball, to be given the 22nd of last month. Did you go, and if so how did you enjoy yourself? Were you not aware, that Ash Wednesday and Washlngtons birthday were one and the same day? We have such nice little meetings now. Miss Garland, the Secretary, reads the Episcopal service and we all sing* An organ has beenengaged from Poughkeepsle aad when some- one plays on that, we get along very nicely, for none of the chants in the evening service are difficult* Miss Garland told her Bible class that next Sunday would be her last here. I am sorry that she is going away just now, but presume some scholar will take her place In our meetings. Are you •till studying Philosophy, or have you given that up lor your mora interesting one? Wo have finished reading Caesar lor this year and have now commenced Cicero, I like it very much, hut am surprised to lind that X do not remember anything at all about It. From new until the lirst ol April, we have to read lour orations; Justtwice as much ss you sccom- piished in a yearl I received a letter Irom Aunt Maria Robinson last week. She has heard irom Aunt Carrie again. Aunt writes, "Grandma has much improved in mind since leaving here, realises new that she Is In Jamesville, and (Aunt Maria) wants me to come next spring and visit her, snd wanted Aunt Carrie to buy a wedding present Irom her, Grandma, to Carrie Raynor, who has Just been married." I take that from Aunt's letter, because she says that as you Appear disposed to drop the correspondence she will let you do so. Yester- day the snow was determined to fall, and the sua was determined to prevent it. 1 don't know whichwould have conquered II the time had not come lor the sun to go to bed. That settled the matter and the snow loll as long as it chose covering the ground beautifully. However, the sua rose early and melted in a lew hours last nights labor. I meant to tell you ol the lecture by Curtis, upon Sir Philip Sydney and the one delivered since by ProI. Bacchus (Backus F of Vassar College, about the literature ol the nineteenth century. Suffice it to say that both were good. Curtis is the most fascinat- ing speaker I ever heard. I am expecting the ten oclock bell every moment, excuse so can not wfltt any mora* Please writing— Your loving Sister Julie, There is the bell now! (Julia M. Pease* '75,
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Creator: Pease, Julia M
Date: March 7, 1871
Text: Vassar College. March 7, 1871. Dear Papa, I have just come from a visit to Mademoiselle, our french teacher, and am so provoked that I sit down to write you end get rid of a little of my wrath, for at present I do not feel composed enough to study. I wrote home some time ago that I had been examined for ttis Freshman french class, and that I had passed. Mademoiselle wrote the Pres. to that effect and he, carelessly, lost the note, and requires another from her, giving our marks. 4a She has...
Show moreVassar College. March 7, 1871. Dear Papa, I have just come from a visit to Mademoiselle, our french teacher, and am so provoked that I sit down to write you end get rid of a little of my wrath, for at present I do not feel composed enough to study. I wrote home some time ago that I had been examined for ttis Freshman french class, and that I had passed. Mademoiselle wrote the Pres. to that effect and he, carelessly, lost the note, and requires another from her, giving our marks. 4a She has lost the paper on which the markswere written and so can only say that we passed. There were three of us examined and one, Miss Taylor, being personally acquainted with the Pres. went to him and stated the case. He did nothing for the benefit of all, but sent word to Mademoiselle to write him how Miss Taylor passed, and on receiving her note, admitted jtjWtj her to Freshman french. Now, Mademoiselle will not write the Pres. for Miss Taussig and myself to pass, and her only reason is that she is tired same and nearly crazed with the business; for there are many others in theAsitua» tion with us, who go often to see her. It is too bad, for now we will have to go on in the sameclass, feeling that we are prepared for a higher one, and also that we are learning little or nothing new. I think Miss Taylor's being a friend of the President had something to do with her being edmitted. Saturday, 11. begun I find this letterAin my desk aad will aow finish end send it. I have become somewhat more reconciled to my fate than I was when this begun. Isn't there an old saying, "what caa't be helped must be endured"? That is the way with me at present. I know that the Pres. would not allow me to study freshman french, even if Mademoiselle had written him I passed, but then I need not study it any more this year, but takesome other study. They think now I have too much to do, but I think as long as my marks are good and Miss Morse told me they were very good and my health is good, I can keep on. Today has been just like a spring day. The snow has entirely disappeared and it has been so warm that X have wished to be out all day. Aa hour's exercise (in, such weather as this is the pleasantest part of our days labor. The College bills were due this week and X sent them to Mr. Leven- son after they were receipted as he seemed to think it best, I sent them to him. $300 wss paid on my entrance, and now one hundred to make the four hundred, sixtyfor my drawing lessons and sixteen dollars and fifty eight cents for stationary and other things, it made in all $176.58 cts. I sent, also, for fifty dollars because I shall need some money in the spring holi- days and to take me to Conn, in the summer. I wrote you that at Christmas Mr. Levenson sent me $30 and paid ten for my having my teeth filled. So that I have had just one hundred dollars from him besides this for the College. I hope not to have to ask for any more for same time. I hsve no letters from either you or Mamma this week, and miss them so much. Last Thursday is the oaly one since I came here when I have not received a home letter, and I do not know why it did not come. Carrie's lettercame in the usual time. 1 shall be very much disappointed if I do not get a letter on Monday. It is time to go to our lenal service and so I must close with much love and many kisses I am your aff. Julie. (Julia M. Pease, >75,
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Creator: Pease, Julia M
Date: March 11, 1871
Text: March 11, 1871. Dear Carrie, Ifi I did not think that you have written, and your letters have failed to reach me, X should feel badly. As it is, half the pleasure of Saturday and Sunday is taken away, by only receiving one very short letter from you. This letter, of a little over two pages, is all I have had from home for some thing over a week. The time between the date of this letter part of the letter is destroyed,. . . last one I have . . . from you is two . . .nd two...
Show moreMarch 11, 1871. Dear Carrie, Ifi I did not think that you have written, and your letters have failed to reach me, X should feel badly. As it is, half the pleasure of Saturday and Sunday is taken away, by only receiving one very short letter from you. This letter, of a little over two pages, is all I have had from home for some thing over a week. The time between the date of this letter part of the letter is destroyed,. . . last one I have . . . from you is two . . .nd two days. * . . that you have not written me in all that time? I know that I do not write home often now, but I have no time to spare. Miss Morse called me down to her a few days ago to tell me that I must drop one of my studies, unless I could get Dr. Avery's permission to keep on. With some difficulty, I induced Dr. Avery to allow me to have them all. French is so easy for me that Ido not have to study much on it and Rhetoric is not very difficult, but still some time is taken in learn- ing them and forty minutes in reciting each. We are required to spend two hours on a lesson if we cannot learn it in less time, and my four, counting them as such, would need eight, but we called them only three, that makes six hours for study, but I have counted the minutes often, and cannot find that I have r.>ach over four hours, which Ireally can study. Just five hours every day are occupied in eating, chapel and silent times. I think it a waste of the time. Much to my surprise a few days ago, I had a call from Mr. Levancoat. Tou had not written me that he had come North, and he says it is over a month since he left Austin. He showed me a very good photograph ol Gussie Brldgland which her mother gave him. He saw the Col. and Mrs. Bridgeland in Memphis. They do not expect to remain in Texas.Mrs. B. thinks that it will not be lor Gussie's advantage to live ' i i '. < i ! there* lor there is so little society. Mr. Levancoat would not send his card up to me as he wished to give me a surprise. I was trying to think . i , . ■ , i who the gentleman could be but failed to think oI anyone. I do not know any gentlemen at the North except my uncles and I thought it could be none ol them. O Carrie, i! you knew how I longed to get letters Irom you, you would not be so remiss in writing. Your very loving sister ... • , "i i JulieP.S. I received a letter from Aunt Juliet this week saying that your long lost bracelet had been found. I presume she has written you of it. J shall ssk her to send it to me, for my charm one is too nice to wear commonly and bracelets are a saving of cuffs. tJulia M. Pease, »75j
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Creator: Pease, Julia M
Date: March 17, 1871
Text: Vassar College, March IT, 1871. Dear sister, X had just commenced a most doleful letter to you yesterdsy when I was Interrupted by a visit from such s sweet girl, Ettie Cleveland, who telling would not let me feel sad any more; comforting me sndAme that the dark places in ones life only made the pleasant ones brighter. There are occasionally 4n> with everyone days when everything goes wrong, and yesterday was such a one with me. 1 suppose, as the eld saying is, 'I got out of wrong...
Show moreVassar College, March IT, 1871. Dear sister, X had just commenced a most doleful letter to you yesterdsy when I was Interrupted by a visit from such s sweet girl, Ettie Cleveland, who telling would not let me feel sad any more; comforting me sndAme that the dark places in ones life only made the pleasant ones brighter. There are occasionally 4n> with everyone days when everything goes wrong, and yesterday was such a one with me. 1 suppose, as the eld saying is, 'I got out of wrong side of the bed.1 I knew myFrench lesson well, and did not get a question, but for that matter, Miss Kapp hardly ever asks me anything and it makes the class very stupid for me. Then Miss JLord, in Latin, gave me a scolding, not because I did not know my lesson, but because X can not read Latin with any expression. Reading Latin is her great hobby, and it Is a thing I cannot do. She makes us learn Latin and it recite^and, what is much worse, read a sentence from the book, then close the book and repeat it. 1 never could learn Ike a parrot and so it is impossible for me to do this without s greet deal of help. I am drawing the head of Diana, from a cast and yesterday 1 coulddo nothing with it. I could nut make it lo©~ Uke her. Sometimes 1 think that 1 can never do anything at Drawing and had better give it up. To crown all, I came down to hear the mail distributed and found no letter for me, and in more than iwc weeks X had had nothing from home except a very short note from you,** I am afraid that If Ettie should come In now, she would find me writing about as complaining a Isttsr as I was yesterday. But this morning I received your letter and Mamma's, and they have made me quite happy. Thank you, lor your wish to send me a birthdaypresent. It makes me sad to feel that I am eighteen. I used to think that I would always be willing to tell my age, but now I leel very much like calling my sell younger. In lact, I can hardly realiae that I am so old, and it seems more natural to say that I am sixteen. I suppose that is the way with all these ladies ol a certain age; it seems more natural to call themselves younger. I expected to have had a cry on my birthday, it is the custom to do so,— but I was so busy all day that 1 did not lind Hme, and at night I was so sleepy, that I dropped oH to sleep, while preparing tosqueeae out a lew tears. You say that you heard Prol. Hamiasy was to be ordained. I do not think it can be so or Mr. Levancoat would have mentioned it. Among the Austin items which he told me, was one that Dr. Lane was very soon to i be married to Miss Mollle Green. That will be one more oil the list ol Austin belles, and if Mtollie Sewal marries soon, as you seem to think she will, the number lelt will not be very large. I have written you that I shall remain here during the holidays. We only have ten days, and I think I shall enjoy my sell very well. There is i ' .... ^ i such a fine library here that one cannot fail to findamusement. Dear little Carrie, don't think of such a thing as my criticiaing your letters, they are very precious to me written in any way. When I learn to write as good oaes it will be time to think of each a thing. What a funny ides to seat myself with a letter la one hand fc Rhetoric In the other, but do not fear that I shall ever attempt it. The weather is so warm that 1 find 1 am beginning to be affected by "spring fever" (laziness) and I want to be out doors all the time walk- ing, or seated on one of the benches readiag, instead of staying in the house learning stupid lessons. X think I have afflicted you with enough stuff of aninferior kind and so will close with much love* Julie (Julia M. Pease, *75,
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Creator: Pease, Julia M
Date: March 22, 1871
Text: Vassar Collage March 22, 1871. My own dear Mamma, You will feel discouraged, I know, when you see this immense » sheet of paper, hut I think that I am justified la using it hy the amount 1 have to write you. Your long letter has kept me In good spirits ever since the receipt of it, which is nearly a week, aad I fear I shall have to live upon the contents of it much longer, unless my home letters come more regularly than they have for the last few weeks. Just as X had written you that your...
Show moreVassar Collage March 22, 1871. My own dear Mamma, You will feel discouraged, I know, when you see this immense » sheet of paper, hut I think that I am justified la using it hy the amount 1 have to write you. Your long letter has kept me In good spirits ever since the receipt of it, which is nearly a week, aad I fear I shall have to live upon the contents of it much longer, unless my home letters come more regularly than they have for the last few weeks. Just as X had written you that your letters came In the right time they began to come very seldom. However, I think it is because you do not write very often. not You say that you fear that 1 can^lways find time to read your letters, but you are mistaken. Ittakes much less time to read than to write a letter and so If that Is your only reason for not usually sending me long ones you will find that removed by my telling you that I can find time to read a letter even though it be twenty pages Instead of half that number. I received a letter from Mrs. Hayes a few days ago. All were well, I mention the receipt of her letter specially because she said that Mrs. Gillette wrote her that Miss Augusta Palm is to ^be, married and I to know am very anxious-for yau^te tell who the happy gentleman is. I shall be very glad to have you make me a few underclothes, another year I shall need them. I do not want them perfectly plain, any trimming will be suit* able except ruffling. Here we can get very nice edgings or trimmings something like ruffling, which look pretty, aad are easily washed aad ironed. If you prefer, you can send them to mo plain and X can put some* thingon. X am afraid that you can not make tha drawers to fit ma without t i * • 1 • ■ , a pattern and as soon as X can cut one will send it. Gough lectures in Poughkeepsie this week. Tho President will not let any of us go in to hear him, hut has asked him to come here and lecture. We do not yet know whether he will accept tha invitation. Although X have heard him several times, I could listen to him as many again and still ask for more. X think X have never written you of a lecture delivered hare by Dr. Robinson from Rochester. Tho gentleman had a very fine ffcce and is said to bo a deep thinker. Ho certainly appeared to be, for his lecture was much to deep for mo to foal much Interest In it. He touched upon many subjects but only for a moment, leaving us to finish them. Of course X did not, for when I go to hoar a lecture I want somethingthat does not require much thinking. Latin uses up about all the brains I possess. Prof. Van Ingen the drawing teacher has commenced a course of lectures upon the "history of Art." To attend his lectures, I have to recite one lesson in the evening privately with two others. This only comes once a week but on my busiest evening, Monday, when there is corridor meeting and I have a bath. I wrote you the last news which I have heard of Grandma. I am owing Aunt Maria a letter and will answer it as soon as X can In order to hear from Grandma again. In the last letter I havs hsd from Aunt she said that Carrie was owing her a letter, aad she told me at Christmas that Papa had never answered her letter. H they will net write of course they cannot expect to hear from her. I mast close now aad learn my Rhetoric. We have more than fifty words to leek outin the Dictionary and find their meaning and derivation^ ^iqfi$ and it will take some time to da it. With very much love Julie.
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Creator: Pease, Julia M
Date: March 29, 1871
Text: Vassar College. March 29, 1871. Oear Papa, I have just come from a most Interesting meeting of the "Students Association,1* and must tell you of the matters there discussed. The "Association" was organised by the students, (and sanctioned by the Facility)* for considering affairs of interest to them, and to this none but students are allowed to come. The Faculty have to be informed of know the object of one of these meetings before we can have one, but theyAnothing of what is...
Show moreVassar College. March 29, 1871. Oear Papa, I have just come from a most Interesting meeting of the "Students Association,1* and must tell you of the matters there discussed. The "Association" was organised by the students, (and sanctioned by the Facility)* for considering affairs of interest to them, and to this none but students are allowed to come. The Faculty have to be informed of know the object of one of these meetings before we can have one, but theyAnothing of what is done at them. Several years ago the students adopted a poor girl and have since been educating her at a very good school in this state. As she is far enough advanced to enter the College and gives promise of talent, some of the students thought it best to have her come hero if the Faculty were willing, and so submitted the matter to them. Their answer was that they were not willing, and that hereafter we could do nothing for the girl, nor give charity in any organised manner. Of course we were sur- prised and a good deal provoked, for the sum each one pays for the educa- tion of Mary is only twenty five cents, and immediately asked for their reasons. The object of the meeting this evening, was the giving of these reasons by the President. He said that their reason was the objectionour parents would make. The catalogue does net state there is any such charitable object to be aided by the students of Vassar College, and although we are not compelled to give anything towards it, of course those who do not, are regarded differently from the others. The plan ol educating this little girl has been very dear to most ol us and it is very hard to have to give it up. We can now do anything we wish lor her separately, but it is only by uniting them that so small sums will be ol any value. Other business was done In the meeting—the prepar- ing ol a programme lor Founders Day, the twenty ninth ol April. The one that has been decided upon is tohave Henry Ward Beecher lecture to us i! we can get him, otherwise we will have Pro!. Raymond, who is a brother ol the president, read to us and linlsh out our programme with music and two tableaux. Thursday night. Tonight there is to be a coacert here under the direction oI Pro!. Bitter. Musicians are coming from New York and the two linest performers ol the College, two teachers, are to play. It will be something very grand, we are told. Tomorrow at twelve oclock our vacation begins. I can hardly wait lor the time to com&j Vt w ill be sc feel that I nice for a little while to^have nothing to do; that the^e ?s >70 m us-t abou-t getting up in the morning and learning and reciting lessons. You know at homeI have always done just about as I pleased and now it is very hard for me to be compelled to do a thing. I intend to keep on drawing during the holidays but that is all la the studying line which I shall do. I have finished a copy of the bust of Diana and have commenced one of Apollo. These are pictures which teach us to they draw and are not for ornaments. There is no beauty in them and^111 never to to exhibit, so that now if you could take a look in my folio you would see there nothing very pretty or interesting——— One day last week we were astonished by a snowstorm* The ground was well covered and it is only today that alltraces of the snow have van- ished* The weather is so warm that we can now go out on the lake and so I I have joined a boat club* W e have been out only twice* andAhave not yet attempted rowing. My business is steering and I find I am kept pretty busy. Our Latin teacher is very often advising us to buy a "Diet, of Anti- quities." What do you think of her advice? It would be a very useful book to have here and also at home, for I think we have none. I often think new that I did not appreciate our library at home. Very few families have so fine a one as we have. Last week I received four letters from home and on the same day. Tours written at Columbus and the others from Mamma and Carrie* I wish I could choose the watch forCarrie's birthday present, but cannot as her birthday comes some time before school closes. Will you not get a charm to go with it? The fashionable ones are made long and go around the neck. Give my love to all and accept much yourself from your loving daughter Julie. (Julis M. Pesse, '75,
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Creator: Pease, Julia M
Date: April 2, 1871
Text: Vassar College. April 2nd 1871. Dear Carrie, Bessie Hogg aad several other girls have beea in my parlor all the eveaing singing hymns and have Just gone away as the bell lor silent time has struck. During the holidays our evening silent time commences at hall past nine aad lasts until ten minutes ol ten and at ten our lights must be out. I like this arrangement very much, it is nicer to have a hall hour of quiet before going to bed. This alternoon I have beea reading such a alee little story,...
Show moreVassar College. April 2nd 1871. Dear Carrie, Bessie Hogg aad several other girls have beea in my parlor all the eveaing singing hymns and have Just gone away as the bell lor silent time has struck. During the holidays our evening silent time commences at hall past nine aad lasts until ten minutes ol ten and at ten our lights must be out. I like this arrangement very much, it is nicer to have a hall hour of quiet before going to bed. This alternoon I have beea reading such a alee little story, it is called "One day's weaving" and is almost as interesting as "Little Women." I intend toread "Stepping Homeward" this week. I am told it is much better than the book by Miss F helps that we read. Have I aever written you that I do not write compositions ? I think I have done so. The reasoa is that I have never studied Rhetoric before coming here. Please keep your pity for another year, so much will be expected Irom us when we are as Freshmen, aad you know as wellAI do that I cannot write a composition. I would not say so i! it were not the real truth, for I do aot weat to conless my deficiency in brains. U you say aaything snore about my being the it smart one ol the family I shall not like. The reasoa that X was seat here A was because I knew so much less than the others. So you think that because we are colleglates, we do not think ol eating. What do yousuppose we live upon? I never had such an appetite as I have here and you know that mine was never very small. The principal articles ol food are cracked wheat, hominy and brown bread* I can't endture the first, the smell almost makes me sick* It is said to be very good for brain work* Very likely the reason X am failing in that respect Is because I never eat any wheat prepared in this tempting manner. Hominy I begin to like and make my dinner of it when that meal consists of mutton, brown bread, pan t? , potatoes, sad dates* Eggs are plenty now and they give us custard pie, and eggs for breakfast very often* I do not like to send you a letter with one unwritten page but I wish to send this in the morning's mail and if I do so must seal in a moment or it will be too late. Your very loving sister* Julie iJulia M. Pease, 'f5,
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Creator: Pease, Julia M
Date: April 2, 1871
Text: Vassar College. April 2, 1871. My dear Mamma, Our long looked lor vacation has come at last and this the first Sunday ol It, I am seated writing letters, not occupied very differently Irom any other Sunday, but leellng rather differently. There are no Bible classes and no Chapel services at the College today, so that we have the gone day entirely to ourselves. Many ol the girls have to church In Pough- rV keepsie. I want to go next Sunday, Easter day, and preferred staying here today*...
Show moreVassar College. April 2, 1871. My dear Mamma, Our long looked lor vacation has come at last and this the first Sunday ol It, I am seated writing letters, not occupied very differently Irom any other Sunday, but leellng rather differently. There are no Bible classes and no Chapel services at the College today, so that we have the gone day entirely to ourselves. Many ol the girls have to church In Pough- rV keepsie. I want to go next Sunday, Easter day, and preferred staying here today* Yesterdaywe were favored with a snowstorm, just enough snow to make It wet aad muddy aad prevent anyone's walking for some days. I had planned to walk Into Poughkeepsle next Tuesday but fear that I cannot go unless X ride, Almost every day during the holidays has been set apart for some purpose* One day I must go to Po 'keep; another we want to go over the Stewards Department} another take a walk to Cedar KJdge, a pretty place near here, fee. A great many girls have gone away for the holidays and more are going this week. Some of those who left were very unfortunate. Theyhad ordered carriages to take them to the depot In time for the half past one oclock train and In going for their carriages found them all gone, and had to walk if they wished to get to the depot. You know that is Is a long walk there and as they started only In time to reach the train If they rode, they too were late. Some came back while others waited far the next train, which would take them to New York in the evening, aad It could not be very pleasant for those who were not very well acquainted with the city. Where is Col. Ward now? I supposed Jimmy was with him but he can scarcelybe If Anna has gone to visit him. It cannot be very pleasant for Anna in Corpus Christ!. Cannot you Invite her to come and she visit you before goes North again? She is such a lovely girl and would be good company for Carrie. Thanks for the seed of the Balsam apple. X have no flower bed and do not want one. It must be such dirty work. I should have to keep a dress on purpose for working in it and do not need the exercise because rowing and gymnastics take up all my time. H I had had the seeds in the winter I wctuld have put them in a pot of earth and could then have had the vine looking pretty in my room. I think I shall keepuntil another winter or give them to Auntie if she has none. The lemon verbena must have grown very much since I left to have so fine a blossom. I should like to have it here but think you appre* elate fully as well as I should. Now about dressmaking. I shall have a spring suit made here although I do not much like to. Dressmakes charge sa much. It seems necessary but I hope it will be all. I shall need until fall. When at Binghamton my blue silk was made aver very prettily. We bought some blue silk the same shade as the overskirt you made ma, and put two pinked ruffles and a pleating of it an the main skirt, apleating besides the ruffle « on the overskirt and made a basque of the cheeked silk and trimmed In the same manner with the blue. Aunt and I wanted you to make Carrie1® In the same way, except buy brown silk for the underskirt and trim with ruffles of the checked, and make the overskirt of the checked trimmed with the brown. It would make a very handsome suit and I think would be much better than to make it as you think of doing. I could get the silk a* you could send to Auntie for it. I think the nicest thing for Carrie this summer would be a grenadine, and I wish you would let me get one for her and have as much as possible of it made while I am at Grandma's. Carrieis almost twenty and ought to dress very nicely now. ff you did not receive the letter fn which I told you everything about dressmaking that I have In this, I presume you did not get the account of the money I spent while at Binghamton. If you like I will write it out and send Including what I have spent since. With much love, Julie. {Julia M. Pease, '75,
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Creator: Pease, Julia M
Date: April 8,1871
Text: Vassar College. April 8, 1871. Dear People, I am only going to write one letter this week aad it will be to you all* It will be a long one I think unless I am very tired of writing before it is finished, I received a letter from Aunt Juliet a few days ago. She wrote me that Dr. Thermaa was dead. Isa't it sad for Kitty? Last Saturday I woat into Poughkeepsie and stayed nearly all day. We expected to ride in* but only one carriage came out la the morning, and so rather than fail to go...
Show moreVassar College. April 8, 1871. Dear People, I am only going to write one letter this week aad it will be to you all* It will be a long one I think unless I am very tired of writing before it is finished, I received a letter from Aunt Juliet a few days ago. She wrote me that Dr. Thermaa was dead. Isa't it sad for Kitty? Last Saturday I woat into Poughkeepsie and stayed nearly all day. We expected to ride in* but only one carriage came out la the morning, and so rather than fail to go after we were all ready, wewalked. The day was very pleasant, bat the roads were very muddy. Carrie, who thinks that Vassar girls are rather differeat from others, would have beea amaaed to see us I : 1 ' walking on the rock wall and climbing fences to avoid mid. We stopped a few minutes at a conservatory and I bought a pretty ivy, price 15 cts. We thought it very reasonable. I feel guilty and want to confess. I feel that I have spent too much for my dress and hat. My dross la lovely, and I will put in a little scrap aa that you may see It. The stuff cost $ 14.40 and the making and trimming $8.50. It is made very prettily with a basque waist andifcwonly one skirt trimmed with a fteaace and two folds. The hat was seven dollars, a most enormous sum. I never had a hat cost so much. I used the ribbon and lace of last summers one but had to get a new flower and more ribbon. The hat is white straw, which will be worn more this year than any other style. I really think I had better not come back another year. I cannot help spending money, when I have any it slips through my fingers as if it were so much water, tf Papa's letter telling me to be economical had only come sooner, I would have tried to get along with- out a new dress this spring and 1 suppose I might have done so, butwhen one sees others dressing well, it is very hard not to try to do the same. Now I plead guilty and await the decision of the court. which One questional would like to have settled, I will now introduce far I j ?cuss ion. Julia Moon has written several times wishing me to come on to Maine as soon as school closes, and remain with them until they come to Poquinock and accompany them there. Will you held a council upon this, and send the results? I do not intend to go to Binghamton this summer, r.or to New Terk or Brooklyn- At the time I could visit there Mr, Levenson's family and my friend j/ Connie Smith would be out of town. Besides the summer is a miserable time to go to New York. Bf I should rec eive another invitation from Florence Smith to visit her In Newport, I would like to accept it, and if you think it well for me to go to Maine I will gladly do so, otherwise I shall be In Poquinock all summer. I shall have to study some during the summer to make up Algebra and enter Freshmaa another year, If I come back. I aught te have studied it here the first semester but the President thought that I had enough to da, making up History, and would not let me take it. When I was In Poughkeepsie I had a ferotype ferrotype, taken withthe four others who went with me. Only two, Sarah aad Bessie Hogg, are particular friends of mine but I like the others very well. Mies Randall is on the right and is a Sophmore, the one seated on a stool is Miss Sharp a special and a great friend of the elder Hogg. X send the picture tc you, thinking perhaps you will be Interested in it. You can see how very fat X have grown, my eyes are almost hidden by my cheeks. The last time I was weighed X could not make the scales say any less tlvi.n one hundred and twenty four pounds. Please send the picture back again. A photographer cornea to College every year andtakes the pictures of all who are anxious to waste their money. JLast year he charged four dollars a do&cn and the Faculty not being content with that, are trying this year to get one that asks sin. Do you think it worthwhile to pay fifty cents for each picture of your premising daughter and sister? One day this week three or four of us went over the Stewards Department. Everything is kept in such order as would please Mamma. The cooking and washing is all done by steam. Xt seems strange that icecream can be made by steam but so it is. We were told that two or three barrels of flour & two or three hundred quartsof milk are used daily. Two or three hundrdd quarts of icecream are used at oae meal. The pot for boiling soup holds just oae barrel full. Whea we have warm rolls for breakfast those who mould them must rise aad commence opera* tions at 2 A.M. Two persons are occupied all day, with the exception of two hours, cutting bread for us to eat. You will perceive that we have very good appetites. These few item3 will give you an idea of the grandeur with which things are carried on here.——Today we went to Cedar Ridge. It is a very pretty place, about a mile away. We found a great many hepaticas, but it is too early for many varieties. The vralk back to theCollege, at half past eleven, was one of the warmest X ever took. This day has been the wonder of the season. The thermometer here in the uliade stood at 80° and is said to have been 90° in town. As it is almost the first really warn; day there has been, we feel it very much. Mamma wishes to know if I find time to practise any. My answer is no. I hoped to take a practise period daily this semester, but find all my time occupied. I am very sorry as I am forgetting all 2 know, which never was much. This afternoon I tried to play a little but soon grew dis- couraged. I had topick the music out almost as if I had never before seen it. Carrie, it is too bad that X have some of your pieces of music with mo. They are those that you used to play most. I wish I might send them to you* Do you think X could? I would like the undergarments of which you wrote, Mamma, open at the side. So, papa has the stump mania? Can you not ornament them In some aafanner} there are some very pretty ones here several feet from the ground* Miss Garfield, foe President of the Freshman class, received a telegram a few days ago saying her mother was dead. She is now an orphan. of flowers made In this style . The stump pointed and set on a stick It is a fearful thing when ona is away from home to hear of the illness of any of \he family, but a death—I cannot bear to think of it. This is the second girl this year who has been called home after her mothers death. Auntie wished me to writs and ask you all to come on this summer. I want you to so much but cannot ask you to take the long Journey so soon again. I am very much disappointed that Papa Is not eomlng. The time goes very swiftly and I hope it will not seem very long before we see each other again, and then we will not be seperated any more.Tomorrow is Easter day. Will the children have their usual offer- ing then? I would like to be with you, going to St. David's but shall have to con'. :ni myself by going to Christ Church, I think it is, which we attend. We expect to walk in if it is as warm as today I do not know how we can do it. I am writing this after ten oclock. Miss Smily (Adelaide L. Smiley, to let me I eould sit up "but not very long, not over half an hour," she said. I have just heard a clock strike eleven and feeling slightly guilty will hasten to bed. Gcod night yourvery loving and very faulty Julie. jJulia M. Pease, '?5j
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Creator: Pease, Julia M
Date: April 10, 1871
Text: Vassar College, April 10, 1871. Dear Papa and Mamma, Your letters of the—I was going to tall the date, but looking at them llnd there Is none and nothing on the envelope even—came today, and I sit down immediately to write you and try and dispel the fears which one of my letters seems to have awakened in you. I do not remember having written home a very desponding letter. It must be that your love increases any jtytffa complaints that I may have made until from very to ones small things...
Show moreVassar College, April 10, 1871. Dear Papa and Mamma, Your letters of the—I was going to tall the date, but looking at them llnd there Is none and nothing on the envelope even—came today, and I sit down immediately to write you and try and dispel the fears which one of my letters seems to have awakened in you. I do not remember having written home a very desponding letter. It must be that your love increases any jtytffa complaints that I may have made until from very to ones small things theyhave grownAlarge In your ayes. What could I have writ* ten to trouble you so? I am perfectly well, have never felt better In my life. Perhaps I was a little tired when that latter was written, for some* times I did feel tired after studying all day. Now, however, I am all right. This little vacation has rested me and I am ready to begin work again on Wednesday. I begin to hate that letter which has made you all feel so anxious about me. Was I angry at my Latin teacher, or at the Steward for not giving us better things to eat? It must have been one or tho other because those are my great troubles. Don't say anymore about my com* lag home so learned, please. I know that I will not and I don't want you to expect much from me. Your Julie will coma home knowing very little more than when she went away. What good will the Latin do her? She will not have learned very much of that and she has more of it than anything else. Little Miss Lyman, who has been rooming across the corridor from me, has only just gone out from my room after offering herself to me for a roommate. Of coarse I said I would be glad to have her come, but not from the bottom of my heart. X am not willing aad can simply endureany roommate. After having all my life such a dear one as Carrie I do not want any less perfect than she. Miss Lyman Is a alee little thing and I think X shall like her very much. She changes her room because Miss Morse (Ann Ellaa Morse, assistant to the president aad to the lady prln* clpal? , thinks theirs will be too warm In the summer as there are three In It. The parlor Is the same sine as mine and the bedroom twice as large and X think It no more crowded for three than mine for two. This morning X found my letter too large to put In the ferotype ferrotype, and will put it In now. With very much love your daughter Julie gjulla M. Pease, '75,
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Creator: Pease, Julia M
Date: April 17, 1871
Text: Vassar College April IT, 1871. Dear Papa, Yesterday I was very busy and did not find time to write my usual letter koine, and now before dinner I will scribble a few lines to send you that you may not feel anxious about me. Perhaps when X tell you what I was doing yesterday you may think it not a sufficient reason for failing to write. I had commenced "Hypatia" and becoming very much interested I did not like to leave it. For the afternoon I arranged ■i i, • ' t . i • , j <...
Show moreVassar College April IT, 1871. Dear Papa, Yesterday I was very busy and did not find time to write my usual letter koine, and now before dinner I will scribble a few lines to send you that you may not feel anxious about me. Perhaps when X tell you what I was doing yesterday you may think it not a sufficient reason for failing to write. I had commenced "Hypatia" and becoming very much interested I did not like to leave it. For the afternoon I arranged ■i i, • ' t . i • , j < i 1 myself comfortably on the bed and was enjoying myself heartily whenCarrie Norton came to make me a visit. Her visits in length resemble those of old Mrs. Alford of Foqulnock and her tongue goes almost as ceaselessly and to as little purpose as that of the worthy lady herself. I yawned repeatedly, was much astonished that she was not on her bed sleeping away the Sunday afternoon, but it was of no use--she did not leave me until It was time to dress for tea. After tea there was prayer- meeting to attend and two or three visits to make, and by the time I was through with them I had to prepare for bed. The weather has changed within the last few days. It has been so warm thatwe thought summer was really here. Today however when we went down to row we had to wrap up quite warmly. We have a nice little bouquet of sweet violets in our parlor now, these having blossomed in the open air. The flower beds are beginning to look very pretty and gay with hyacinths, myrtle and some tulips. Mies Lyman 1 find a very sweet girl and I feel almost as much alone as if she was not with me. Flease excuse this short letter (it is longer now than Carrie's to me are) and accept much love for yourself and Manama and Carrie. • : ! ; " ' * V-: ! ' i i . i ' < I Ever your loving Julie. (Julia M. Pease, *75,
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Creator: Pease, Julia M
Date: April 24, 1871
Text: day or two if 2 could. Since school commenced alter our short vacation, I have had scarcely a moment for anything but study. I think it takes me longer than it used to In Hartford to learn my lessons (there is a violation of clearness which would much disturb Miss Clark.) Tomorrow Prof. Van Xogen takes his drawing aad painting classes out sketching. He has selected a spot lor us near the lake, and we ought to make a pretty sketch. I fear I shall da but poorly, as I have never attempted evea a...
Show moreday or two if 2 could. Since school commenced alter our short vacation, I have had scarcely a moment for anything but study. I think it takes me longer than it used to In Hartford to learn my lessons (there is a violation of clearness which would much disturb Miss Clark.) Tomorrow Prof. Van Xogen takes his drawing aad painting classes out sketching. He has selected a spot lor us near the lake, and we ought to make a pretty sketch. I fear I shall da but poorly, as I have never attempted evea a tree or bush from nature. Whea the time came to joia the Floral Society, I weat down pre* pared to become aa honorary member. I thought I would not have time to take care of a flower bed aad If I became an hon. member I would have no work to do and would have a bouquet of cat flowers brought to my room each week. However, alter hearlag the Coastitutloa read I decided to juia the Society as a working member. So I paid my lilty ceats aad have a bed ol my own. Our bods are not yet ready to work la and so we work lor the society. We are required to work only illteen minutes each day. jb/^i That Is the amount of exercise I would have to take by walking and X enjoy the exercise much more working in the garden. X hope Papa will come North this summer. Mamma says that he Is not very well andlor his health ought to take the trip. X wish you could persuade him to come on. i n t. ■ ' • . 1 t ■ 1 • , M X want to see him so much. W e are beginning to need a Latin Grammar and I do not want to get one 11 I can get along without one, because we have one at home. Can you not send it by mail? It is bid and would not be a very great loss 11 it did not come sslely, and perhaps it can reach me. fit so it would be a saving ol a dollar It a hall, and I have so many books to buy. I cannot write any more at present. With love Julie. (Julia M. Pease, >75,
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Creator: Pease, Julia M
Date: April 25, 1871
Text: Vassar College, April 10, 1871. Dear Papa and Mamma, This morning I had Just mailed a letter to Carrie, when X was handed one Irom Aunt Maria Robiason. I opened it eagerly, but lound that it contained sad news. Grandma is dead. Aunt's letter was written on Sunday and it was Saturday that they received the telegram Irom Janesville. I presume you have heard Irom Uncle John by this time, or II not as soon, you will have before this letter reaches you. Aunt writes no particulars, and Indeed,...
Show moreVassar College, April 10, 1871. Dear Papa and Mamma, This morning I had Just mailed a letter to Carrie, when X was handed one Irom Aunt Maria Robiason. I opened it eagerly, but lound that it contained sad news. Grandma is dead. Aunt's letter was written on Sunday and it was Saturday that they received the telegram Irom Janesville. I presume you have heard Irom Uncle John by this time, or II not as soon, you will have before this letter reaches you. Aunt writes no particulars, and Indeed, knows none, as yet. The funeral is to be inEnfield, Conn., tomorrow, Wednesday* Uncle ant Aunt Robinson, Uncle Richardson, Uncle John and perhaps oae ol the girls, will go oa to it. I should have liked to do so, but as X heard only today Irom Aunt, will not be able to. X hope Papa has decided to come North this summer. He must need the change very much, and U the weather here this summer will at all resemble that ol last, he cannot complain ol cold. X thought that X had many things to say, but Auat's letter has put them all out oI my head. May God bless and keep you all. Your loving daughter Julie (Julia M. Pease, »73,
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Creator: Pease, Julia M
Date: April 29, 1871
Text: Vassar College April 27, 1871. Dear Carrie, Z feel so lasy aad tired today that it takes a very great effort to write the few letters which are necessary. I would write you tomorrow, our but Miss Lyman and I have harrowed a book called "Faith Gartney" and^only chance to read it together is then, Sunday.4 The reason for my laayness is that we were up until after twelve last night. Today is Founders Day, but the Faculty kindly let us celebrate yesterday instead. X say kindly because...
Show moreVassar College April 27, 1871. Dear Carrie, Z feel so lasy aad tired today that it takes a very great effort to write the few letters which are necessary. I would write you tomorrow, our but Miss Lyman and I have harrowed a book called "Faith Gartney" and^only chance to read it together is then, Sunday.4 The reason for my laayness is that we were up until after twelve last night. Today is Founders Day, but the Faculty kindly let us celebrate yesterday instead. X say kindly because we celebrate it by a holiday aad in the evening an entertainment. Theletter consisted of music, dramatic reading and tableaux. The music was by Misses Hollister and Darling who are considered the finest players here, aad Miss Boyaton sang very nicely. Prof. Raymond from New York read to us "Twelfth Night" from Shakespeare. X wrote you of his reading before, aad it is not necessary to say again haw well he reads. X wish hs had selected something more Interesting. Our Interest lessened towards the end of the play, perhaps because it was so long, and we had been sitting several hours aad were getting tired. After the reading came the tableaux. They were two, "The Return from the Vintage" aad "The Ascension of Marguerite." The first one was statuaryaad a better imitation than what we attempted at the H.F.S. In the days gone by. The stage arrangements here were not very good. An old black curtain was swung across the plat- form of the chapel for background. However, It reached high enough to cover all of Mr. Vassar in the portrait which hangs In the Chapel, but the top of his head. Looking at that we could imagine him smiling benign* antly at the happy way we were celebrating hie anniversary day. It seems can be produced by wonderful, what a beautiful effecta graceful arrangement of a few persons i ■ * I ' s. ' ' ■ ' clothed in sheets and powdered with flour and the whole lit by a red light. When the curtain had gone down the second time, of course we waitedanxiously for the second tableau. Very soon we saw rising up behind tho drop curtain, the clouds. It was some time before they could be arranged satisfactorily and after they were, the angels were placed in the air and then the curtain rose. We gaaed and could not look enough. It was beauti- ful. There were four angels bearing Marguerite upwards, and all was and faint just dimAenough to make it seem real. Our Founders Day was over and we marched out of chapel and hastened to our downy couches. They seemed still more downy this morning when the rising bell rang, aad even the thought of a Vassar College breakfast could not bring many from them again until time for Chapel services. O that we could goAto such a supper as wefeasted upon last night. Jelly, cold biscuit, Jolly and almond cake and Icecream. Within the last few weeks I have waated so much to go home. Per* haps becaase it Is so hard lor yoa all to do without mo, that It seems aa though I mast go home. U it were not for my drawing lessons I would not think of remaining another year, and sanaslimes I think before the summer is over I will decide to go back In the fall. F lease tell me often of Emily, Lisa and Cloe, yen know X love them almost as part of our family. I am glad the little ones are learning so fast* and tell them I want to have a letter from them before I go homo. Will they not begin soon to write? I think you must have enjoyedyour visit from Johan and the Palm girls very much. While you and Mamma are alone so much I should think you would have a good deal of company to stay days with you. Always remember me to Martha and tell her I often wish for soma of her nice waffles and fritters. What is the matter with Long Shanks? Have you offended him In any way? Tall ma what young men coma to saa you now. Does Ridge continue his visitations? It makes ma yawn now to think of them. Tou know that X am not fond of gentleman society and yet X would eagerly rush for a pair of pants now. By tha way there is talk of expelling a young lady from the Collage. Only two have bean expelled, ana lor stealing and tha other for flirtings as this young lady has done all the (expelablc)things except stealing, It will be strange If she is not sent away. I will not ba so cruel as tto, make you read a page which is crossed and so will close. Julie iJulla M. Pease, *75,
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Creator: Pease, Julia M
Date: May 2, 1871
Text: Vassar College, May 2nd to 8th ,1871, Mr, and Mrs. £. M. Pease; My dearest Parents, How do you like this form of address? One of the girls told me that she always commenced a letter home in this way, and I thought that I would try it. Dear papa, won't you come North this summer? I want to see you so much. If my wishes will influence you at all, you will certainly come. But there is more to be considered than my earnest wish to see and fondle you again. For the sake of us all you ought to...
Show moreVassar College, May 2nd to 8th ,1871, Mr, and Mrs. £. M. Pease; My dearest Parents, How do you like this form of address? One of the girls told me that she always commenced a letter home in this way, and I thought that I would try it. Dear papa, won't you come North this summer? I want to see you so much. If my wishes will influence you at all, you will certainly come. But there is more to be considered than my earnest wish to see and fondle you again. For the sake of us all you ought to come, that you may get well and strong,and be spared to us many more years. I am do sure you wlllAwhat we are so anxious to have you do, and it will be so much better to come North early in the summer. You speak of selling that piece of land which I have always called mine. I do not agree to it, unless it is want to absolutely necessary. What shall I do when rbuild my old maids cottage, if the land on which to build it is gone? It would be nice to have a fine park near home, but I think the land is much nicer as it is. I am as bad about having our land sold as those old ladies in Hartford, whom you used to tell of. Every little thing about homeinterests me. How many cats &c. you have. Even the death of a chicken. By the way, is the chicken cholera entirely over? I think you mentioned in one of your letters that you had had that Madonna, which I drew, framed. It is pretty good for a crayon sketch but it ought never to have been framed. I hope when you know that I do not like it, you will take it out; anyway, do not have it hanging on the wall. I waa amused at your thinking it looked like me. It brought to mind the french fable about the owl and its little ones. Love blinds your eyes to all my defects. It is very pleasant to have if so, but others cannotbe deceived any more than the hunter could. He, being told by the owl not to kill her little ones which were the prettiest birdllngs In the forest, went directly which and killed them, for he thought them the ugliest he found. Fapa did you ever know a Dr. Kapp of New Brannfeld? He is a German and brother of our German teacher. He is not now in Texas, but has sons living there. I often wish I were with you at your Saturday evening game of whist. W e played several times during vacation, but of course do not play now. I believe it is against the rules although we havenever been told not to play* I can imagine you. Mamma, wearing your old straw bonnet com- fortably, You are a living example of one who does not think that 'dress makes the person,' and one who carries out her opinions, too. Really, though, you ought to have a new bonnet. I suppose this one has been with you so long that you have an affection for it, and cannot bear to put it aside. Please make my nightdresses quite long, and do not mark them. I want to get a stencil plate, and mark my things when they are finished. I want to ask papa If he will tell me Just how muchmoney he can let me spend a year. If he will decide upon a certain sum I will keep within it, and feel more comfortable than at present. I wish you would think of it, and whan you have decided how much X ought to have give Mr, Levenson authority to pay it to me three or four times during the year. I shall have to send to him for more money before I leave College. I shall try and not need any until I hear from you. Then X hope to know how much I shall have this summer, and can make my plans accordingly. Please do not give me more than you easily can.There has been quite an excitement lately about smoking, drinking and cardplaying. X presume you have heard of it, because the papers gladly find all they can to say against Vassar College. I will tell you about it so that you may not believe the reports which you hear. There has been smoking and cardplaying here and X have known of it myself, but it has not been to any extent. X think there has never been any drinking. The report says that young ladies of Vassar commonly smoke and drink and that is not so. Three young ladles have been discovered flirting: r:i&Q have written and received letters from gentlemen in Po'keepsie, and the letters have been carried to and fro by a boy, son of one of our Professors. The other one tooka gentleman who called upon her into the Art Gallery and there met someyyoung ladles. Although these things were not so very bad, yet, as the Fres. had said that flirting would not be allowed, these young ladies have been put under watch. They can walk only a short distance in front and back of the college, and can receive no more calls from gentlemen. beta This letter ha»A lying in my desk some days, and this evening I • will finish It. Your letters came today and made me very glad. You do not say whether I shall have xoy photographs taken. I wish you had done so. For my own part X would not pay 5 dollars a doaen lor them, but 11 you wish me to, I will. They will be taken very finely. The photographer is Kurtz of New York and he is here now. You are much mistaken. Mamma, If you think that overskirts are not now worn. They are longer and larger than ever before, and more generally worn. X fancy that they make me look dumpy, and as the material of my dress is stiff, X had it made with- out one. Sleeves are made either with a deep cuff or flowing at the wrist. Mats are worn farther back on the head. This will suit you I think. The hair Is worn pompadour, which is the reason for putting the hats so far back. Almost all styles of hat are bent down at the sides, slightly. The \ first eight of my sea side would amuse you. The crown is rather high and for me the sides are bent down quite low. U you think It best^to go to Poquonock, before going to MSine, X will do so, but it seems to me an unnecessary waste of time and money. X could have my large trunk expressed on to Windsor and my small one with me. X would be glad to have Auntie go on and will write to her fcbout it. Xf she does not go X could have the company of so nr girls from the College. Several here, live In Maine. Thin lengthy epistle Is now drawn to a close, so now rejoice. W ith muck love end many kisses your loving daughter, JulieH I have my pictures taken I shall have to send for more money before this letter can be answered* lJulla M. Pease, *75,
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