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Creator: Badgley, Mary M.
Date: October 15, 1866
Text: Vassar College, Oct. 15, /66. Dear Kate, X received your dear good letter the early part of last week, aad my first impulse was to sit right down and answer it, hut there were other things to be done, and for one reason and another have put it off until now, and have now only a few minutes before the warning bell will sound, and Z shall have to leave my letter in order to get our lights out by ten o'clock, but we girls have got so expert that we can make almost all our preparations for...
Show moreVassar College, Oct. 15, /66. Dear Kate, X received your dear good letter the early part of last week, aad my first impulse was to sit right down and answer it, hut there were other things to be done, and for one reason and another have put it off until now, and have now only a few minutes before the warning bell will sound, and Z shall have to leave my letter in order to get our lights out by ten o'clock, but we girls have got so expert that we can make almost all our preparations for retiring in the dark. I trust to you almost entirely for news of all that is going on among the girls, as Mamma of course does not know about everything and the idea of you speaking of your letter as a gossiping one, X should not have been at all satisfied if you had not written Just what you did. U you were only here with me it seems to me that I should be quite satisfied, the college and the grounds around it are beautiful and what it seems to lack for me is your not being here, to be sure it is very pleasant to have Alice and Kate here, but they are on the fourth floor and X am on the first, and consequently do not see them a great deal to have any long visit with them. Dear one! The bell has rung and X must stop to take it up and finish it when X can. Goodnight Mary. see next sheet Oct. 22, 1865 - 2 Tuesday morn. Here I am writing before breakfast, it is a most beautiful morning, but I should think by the feeling of the airthat it is quite cold. I hope that you will not forget to write all about Flora Matson's wedding, and also send me some pieces of her dresses, and if you wish to please me write what you wore and how you fixed your hair. I am glad to think that you do not forget me in our little prayer meetings, we have prayer meetings here every Sunday evening, under the charge of Miss Miner, our corrider teacher, who is Just as sweet as she can be; there are from twenty five to thirty attend of course all from our corrider, as the others have meetings in different rooms, I enjoy them very much it reminds me very forcibly of our own little meetings at home. Then there is a prayer meeting held on Thursday evening for the whole college, but I have not attended one of these. Then on Monday evening we have corrider meet- ing for giving the sermon of the preceding Sabbath, that you may know is not very easy, but yet X think it a very good plan. You have been a splen- did girl about going to see Mamma, she has written me about It nearly every time you have been I think, and X hope that you will continue to go as often as you can. Tuesday eve. Dear Kate, You see from the number of times my letter is dated that I Oct. 15, 1866 -3 have to write when I cam get a few minutes, the warning bell is sounding now and I shall have to stop again in a few minutes, but X am determined to write as much as X can now. One of the girls with whom X have become acquainted Is Laura Bartlett from Binghamton, a cousin of Rev. Wm. Bartlett's one evening when I was calling her she very innocently asked If X was acquainted with Mr. Flanders family, I told her how Intimate you and X are, we at once decided to be friends on your account, she is a very pleasant girl and X like her very much. She has been in to see your photograph, and says she wishes very much that she could see you, it seemed quite as if we were old friends because she had heard so much of you. X commenced English Literature today and think that X shall like it, it is Spauldings. X presume that Mamma has told you that X have com- menced German - it is splendid so fan in our French class there are about forty now, but it is to be made smaller before long. Some of the girls have a great time here in dressing up. Saturday evening X believe that there were about forty dressed up, one as a negro woman, and another as a ghost and others as nuns but it did not entirely please President Raymond* and X expected that some of the girls would suffer for it, but they have not as yet. Some of the girls say that one of the teachers here (who is not very well liked) was heard to exclaim when she saw the negro Oct. 22, 1865 - 4 woman "What horrible thing is this, wherefore is this outrage per- petrated" and the girls say that one of them one night passed her ginger bread and she said "No, I thank you I have no praediliction for ginger breat", and this same teacher has charge of our Literature class, what do you think I shall be when I come from under her charge? Wednesday eve. X have not succeeded in finishing my letter yet. One of the girls just brought us a little jelly cake, and candy, which was a great treat she succeeded by writing to a merchant for them and having him send them up. It being against the rules to purchase either. Received Flora Matson's wedding cards today. My letter Is blotted and looks dreadfull but I have no time to copy it.Give my love to Kittle and tell her I wish that she would write. Write me a good long letter as soon as you can. With love to your mother and sister and with a great deal to yourself, I am as ever, your Mary. /
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Creator: Badgley, Mary M., Flanders, Kate
Date: January 4, 1867
Text: Vassar College, January 4ty67 Dear dear Katy, I cannot tell you how delighted I was to get that letter of youars and to feel that you had been able to write it yourself, and oh how glad that you are once more able to go out. I did not receivs it aiatil night before last, and I had not a minute's time that 2 could sniwar it before. I am so glad that you wrote me Just such a letter as yota did telling me about yourself, and you need not feel at all troubled concern- ing the number of Is in...
Show moreVassar College, January 4ty67 Dear dear Katy, I cannot tell you how delighted I was to get that letter of youars and to feel that you had been able to write it yourself, and oh how glad that you are once more able to go out. I did not receivs it aiatil night before last, and I had not a minute's time that 2 could sniwar it before. I am so glad that you wrote me Just such a letter as yota did telling me about yourself, and you need not feel at all troubled concern- ing the number of Is in it, for I had rather that you would write mbout yourself than anything else) I have got so that it seems as if my letters contain nothing else but those large Is, and I have had serious intentions of mentioning myself with a small letter so that it would not be <qulte so conspicuous, but if you will agree let us make an arrangement tny which all reference to self will be excused for I certainly want to know how you are and what you are doing. School opened again today although, there are only a part of the girls back yet. I came yesterday afternoon. Uncle brought me over to Tarrytown In a sleigh and from there I catarn up alone, I was so in hopes that your mother and brother would be on the train asyou wrote they were going home this week or next and I knew tiaat yester- day was the last day they could start this week if they reached horn* before Sunday, but I did not see them and presumed they were not on ttae train. I have had a very pleasant although very quiet vacations I did not feel as homesick as I expected to, although X should have liked very muach to have Jan. 4, 1867 - 2 been at home. Santa Claus was very kind to you this year was he not. X did not have a great many presents this year but expect I shall have to have a double portion next year. I had a very handsome copy of "Pleasures of Hope" and "Pleasures of Memory11 from cousin John Dutcher, a pair of kid gloves from AuntAnnie Bradford, a neck ribbon from Mismie B. and X am to have a ring from my father. X had expected to have gone down to N.Y. and spent a day and night there, and cousin John went to the depot after me but it was so unpleasant that I did not go. X went down last Wednesday and spent part of the day, took dinner with Minnie B. There were four other young ladies, two of them from Mrs. Hoffman's! among Minnie's presents she had a set of jewelry of artificial flowers like the one that you had, I should think. Minnie Is very well and I enjoyed my visit with her very much. She seems like a young lady to me. She is delighted tlth N. Y.I was almost glad that X did not get your letter until X got home, for X should have wanted so much to have gone over to Brooklyn and seen your mother, and that would have been Impossible. Now that this vacation is past, it will not seem nearly as long before It Is time for me to come home once more. When at White Plains X was Introduced to Miss Schinan direct from Vassar College, and X do not remember ever having seen her before, it seems very strange to be living In the same house and not even Oct. 22, 1865 - 1867 know them by sight. Where is Hattie Newhall staying in N.Y. Is she boarding or with friends ? When Alice and 1 went downwe met George Peckam on the cars. He is studying law at a law school in Albany - he is quite pleasant. Alice and Kate have neither of them got back yet or at least X have not seen them yet. They are going to have a much pleasanter room when they come back than they had before. Saturday morning - , Alice has come. It did seem so nice to see her again. You have no idea how pleasant it is for me to have them with me here. I have been up to see her this morning. I had intended to write a longer letter but X think X shall have to stop for it is almost dinner time. X had a letter from Mamma this morning with two very pretty ribbons in It. She wrote you were in church last Sunday. Now Kate, goodby, and do write as soon as you feel able. With love to your sister, and all the girls, Your truly loving friend, Mary.
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Creator: Badgley, Mary M.
Date: October 28, 1866
Text: Vassar College, Oct. 28/66. Dear Kate, I received Mrs. Dana's good letter yesterday and was very glad to receive it, but was so so sorry to think that you are sick and not able to write; Mama wrote me that you were not well, but I had no Idea that you were as sick as you are, but I hope that you will be very much better before many days have gone by. You can see by the date of my letter that I am doing something that I am not in the habit of doing, something that is writing a letter on...
Show moreVassar College, Oct. 28/66. Dear Kate, I received Mrs. Dana's good letter yesterday and was very glad to receive it, but was so so sorry to think that you are sick and not able to write; Mama wrote me that you were not well, but I had no Idea that you were as sick as you are, but I hope that you will be very much better before many days have gone by. You can see by the date of my letter that I am doing something that I am not in the habit of doing, something that is writing a letter on the Sabbath, but when I heard that you were sick I decided that as I could not come and see you, that it is a pleasure and as much my duty to write to you as to do anything else. I have just been having a good long talk with Laura Bartlett and also read her Mrs. Dana's letter. We came out of Bible class together and then sat down at the bottom of one of the pair of stairs to talk for a little while, as we neither of us wished to go to the other's room to-day. I asked her to come down the other day and get some of the cookies, which Mama sent me (as they are quite a treat to us here) she came down night but I was out, and she says she will come again. I had a box from home Thursday with my Winter cloak, (did you see it) and some other things, quite a number of pictures among others the picture of our Sunday school class. I have them hung up and you do not know how nice and home-like it makes our parlor Oct. 28, 1866 -2 seem. I am going to have a frame for the picture of our house as near as possible like the one on the picture of the Sunday school class. I went down to Poughkeepsie yesterday, it is only the second time that I have down excepting communion Sabbath since I have been here, and I had the good fortune while there of meeting in one of the stores WillieAllen, it seemed very pleasant to see even him because he was from Milwaukee; and I also met on the street Addy Storms. She has come to Poughkeepsie to attend school, she told me the name of the school but I do not remember the name now, where she thought she would have a gayer time than she would at Vassar, because she would be allowed to go out with her friends more there than she would here, which I think is very probable. ! have commenced taking riding lessons took my first lesson Friday morning a private lesson from one they pretend to call a Baron, but whose right to the title seems to me to be rather doubtful. I think that I am going to like it very much indeed, I believe that he has over fifty scholars. I do wish that you were going to study German this year I am so sure that you would like it ever and ever so much, but then you know that it has always been my wish to study German and I am not in the least disappointed in it. I like French very much but am not quite so interested in it as in my German. I think that perhaps that you have heard through Mamma of Oct, 28, 1866 -3 my having commenced Physical Geography and Geology, these alternate and under the charge of Prof. Tenny; we are taught almost entirely by lectures, we have a text book written by Prof. Tenny in which we read in particular subjects and when he has finished any one subject he examines us on what he has told us. There are about ninety in the class, and we are obliged to have our recitations in the Chapel. A week ago yesterday Prof. T. took some twenty of us to the other side of the Hudson river on a geologizing excursion, it was a beautiful afternoon and we had a splendid time; we started about two o'clock and did not get home until after dark; after considerable consultation between Presi- dent Raymond and Miss Lyman, those that wished were allowed to wear their gymnastic dresses as we were to go where we would see but two or three, and it would be so much more convenient in climbing the mountains, there were about half of us wore our suits and we were very glad that we did. evening Kate Ober and a Lizzie Mather and myself went in and called on Prof. Tenny, as he had promised to give us some specimens we had a very pleasant call, all most all of the Profs have houses connected with the College. I am so sorry that you u ere not able to go to Flora Matrson's reception for I know how disappointed you must have been, and I was disappointed too for I wanted to hear from you all about it, what everyone had on, what they said, and even what they thought, and I also wanted to know what you did and what you wore, but Sept. 21, 1870 - 4 as you had to bear so much the greater part of the disappointment, I will not speak of mine. Mamma sent some of the wedding cake in my box, and I have intended to dream on it every single night since it came but have forgotten it, but I have a piece left and think that perhaps I may think of it before it is all gone. It is as still about the house and grounds here to-day as if it were a private building and one would scarcely think excepting from the size of the building that there could be between four and five hundred persons in such grounds. I think that I had better stop for to-day as it will soon be twelve o'clock and the mail does not go out until tomorrow afternoon. I should have written all of my letter to-morrow but I knew that I should not have time. Oh how much that I wish that I could see you for a little while, I have been gone over two months, yet it seems a good long time to look for- ward to next Junes how I hope that when you come East next Summer you will be able to come here, and see everything that there is to be seen and come down here into our little parlor, it seems so it was almost too nice to think of but yet I hope that it may be realised. Monday morning - I received a letter from Minnie Bradford this morn- ing. She says that she is delighted with her school. It is almost dinner time and the mail goes very soon after dinner so I must stop. W rite as soon as you can for I shall be very anxious to know how you are. Give my love to your mother and sister. In haste I am as ever your loving friend, Mary.
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Creator: Badgley, Mary M.
Date: November 24, 1866
Text: Vassar Collage, Nov. 24, / 66. Dear Katie What must you thi&k of me by this time, that I am a hard hearted girl, and have forgotten all about you, perhaps I deserve all of this, yet I may say that it is not true, for I have thought of you every day for over a week, and have tried in vain to find time to answer Mrs. Dana's welcome letter, which I received over two weeks ago. The time is so divided up into periods here that I find little time to do anything but prepare my lessons,...
Show moreVassar Collage, Nov. 24, / 66. Dear Katie What must you thi&k of me by this time, that I am a hard hearted girl, and have forgotten all about you, perhaps I deserve all of this, yet I may say that it is not true, for I have thought of you every day for over a week, and have tried in vain to find time to answer Mrs. Dana's welcome letter, which I received over two weeks ago. The time is so divided up into periods here that I find little time to do anything but prepare my lessons, though I have but three, there are so many extra duties to be performed, we are obliged to exercise just so much every day, and we have chapel twice a day, and about two or three lectures every week. Wednesday evening we have a lecture on health from Miss Avery, who is the resident physician here. And Saturday morning we have a talk from Kfiss Lyman on etiquet, and twice in the week we have Bible lesson. And then we have gymnastics every day and you have no idea how nice they are; we have a splendid hall on purpose, and the figures are some of them so pretty, it seems almost as good as dancings yester- day we went over there and as it was Friday, we stayed there an hour, and then scarecly wanted to come home. Now when you think of all of these and great many other little things, that I cannot stop to mention, do you wonder that my time is all occupied. Last night a Mr. Pierson lectured here before the Literary society, it seemed very strange to hear a real lecturer again. The society are in hopes of having a course of lectures Nov. 24, 1866 -2 here for the College, as we have them every Winter at home; I hope they will succeed, they have written to Gough and to Annie Dickinson and to others, and I believe they have promised to come if they pos- sibly can. Does it seem possible to you that next Thursday can be Thanksgiving day, I can scarcely realize it. We are hoping to have a very pleasant time here, there is a committee I believe to make arrangements for the day, but what these arrangements will be we do not yet know, there will probably be some entertainment in the evening. Monday after Thanksgiving I believe there is to be a grand celebration in the evening, as it is the anniversary of the establishment of the Literary society. Though there are of course a great many things here that are different very different from home, and there is scarcely a day but what I think how glad I should be if I was only at home again; yet there are also a great many things that make this strange sort of life pleasant, and I must say that I think this College Is almost as near perfect in its arrangements as any boarding school can be, and that we have great advantages here. I think you must have got along splendidly In French if you are going to have a French play so soon. Mrs. Dana asked if we had progressed far enough yet to publish a paper, I am sorry to say that we have not, though I believe there is one paper published every year, though I am afraid that to the students at Yale this would look like very Nov. 24, 1866 -3 small progress. I received a letter from Mamma in which she said that Mr, Bradley's sister was going to help Mrs. Newhall and her at their dinner table, what a long visit she is making. X have yet to write A letter to Minnie Bradford today, beside a composition to commence so I must stop; it does seem as if Saturday was just about as busy a day as any in the week. I do hope I shall hear from you soon; you have no idea with what interest I watch for my letters, and I will try and answer it more promptly than I have this time. Give my love to your mother and sister and to all of the girls. X am with ever and ever so much love Your aff. friend, Mary
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Creator: Badgley, Mary M.
Date: 1866-12-16
Text: Vassar College Sunday, Dec* 16/66. My dear Kate, You see by the date that I have made another exception to my rule, these two letters to you are the only letters that I have written on Sunday since X have been away from home, excepting a part of one which X wrote to Mamma. But Kate as X sit here with nothing to reach for we can take no more books from the Library until after the vacation, and look out of the window and see the snow falling to the earth, I think of Milwaukee and all the dear...
Show moreVassar College Sunday, Dec* 16/66. My dear Kate, You see by the date that I have made another exception to my rule, these two letters to you are the only letters that I have written on Sunday since X have been away from home, excepting a part of one which X wrote to Mamma. But Kate as X sit here with nothing to reach for we can take no more books from the Library until after the vacation, and look out of the window and see the snow falling to the earth, I think of Milwaukee and all the dear ones at home who are at church hearing Mr. Allison preach one of his dear good sermons, and I long to step in and be with them, and then I think of you lying perhaps in your mother's bedroom, or perhaps sitting by the library window, and how X wish I could come in and spend the morning with you, but this cannot be and X must try and not even think as such thing was ever possible, but you do know if X was at home that X would have been much with you during your long sickness, which you have borne so patiently. But Kate dear, you must not think that X have not thought of you often during this heavy trial, for scarcely a day passes but what I think of you and very often wish that X could step in and see you, if it were only for a few minutes. X have been to morning prayers and also to Bible class this morning, I am in Prof. Farrar's Bible class, he is a wonderful man. X wish that X could understand him as a man and X do so wish that X could Dec. 16, 1866 - 2 understand his belief in religion. He is certainly a very very sincere Christian, it seems to me that I scarcely ever saw one more in earnest he, yet it is so difficult to know what he does really believe, and he seems so anxious that we should try and understand as far as pos- sible what we believe, and not receive everything as true without asking any questions concerning it. Laura Bartlett was sick and went home a week ago and is not coming back until after the Christmas vacation. I had a letter from her yesterday, and she said that your mother was in Brooklyn. X am so so sorry that Jimmie has been so sick, how sudden it has been but I feel that it cannot be possible but that he will be better before a great while. But the only way in all our troubles dear Katy, is to look for comfort to Our Heavenly Father, feeling that He alone knows what is best for us. which I know you do. You may think that there was no need of my writing this, and that I have written it without any thought, but it is not so. I do wish that I could say something that would be real comforting to you, but you know that if I cannot say anything to comfort you, 1 do really sympathise with you, and X only wish that X could see you to say all that I would like to. instead of having only the privilege of writing, which is not often all very satis- factory. College efceses closes next Thursday for a vacation of two weeks. Kate is going to Baltimore) Alice to Brooklyn,and I am going Oct. 22, 1865 - 16 to White Plains. I hope to have a very pleasant time but of course it will seem strange to be from home on Christmas, as it is the first one that I have ever spent away from my own dear home; and New Years I shll think of your dear Katy, and of the two last New Years that I have spent at your house. But X must stop now and I hope as soon as you are able you will write. With much love to Mrs. Dana and to all of the girls, and with ever and ever so much to yourself, X am as ever. Your loving friend Mary M. Badgeley. Kate and Alice would have sent their love did they know I was writing. I have just blotted the back of my letter but it is too late to write another.
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Creator: Badgley, Mary M.
Date: September 24, 1866
Text: Poughkeepsie, N.Y., Monday. Sept. 24, 186- (1866 ? , Dear Kate, X received your dear good letter last Wednesday, and you may be sure that I was glad to get it, for I had just commenced to think that the girls, end you especially, had forgotten that there was such a person in existence. With your picture I was perfectly delighted, and think it is very good. As for my being initiated in my studies you are quite mistaken, for although X have been here a week and a half, X do not know yet what X...
Show morePoughkeepsie, N.Y., Monday. Sept. 24, 186- (1866 ? , Dear Kate, X received your dear good letter last Wednesday, and you may be sure that I was glad to get it, for I had just commenced to think that the girls, end you especially, had forgotten that there was such a person in existence. With your picture I was perfectly delighted, and think it is very good. As for my being initiated in my studies you are quite mistaken, for although X have been here a week and a half, X do not know yet what X am going to study, but expect to be settled before many days morehave gone by. X am so glad that you have a pleasant class in French, but X hope that you will not get the start of me. It was almost too bad that Mary Hadley could not go on with the class. The Senior class is not so very large after all, but I should think that the girls had their hands about full. It seems so strange to do everything so at the sounding of the bell, we have to be up at six o'clock in the morning and in the bed with the light put out at ten. I expect the bell to sound every minute for dinner, one thing, we have as much as we wish to eat, and I have got so that I have to have some bread and syrup for supper, every night you better try it, we girls think it splendid. Yesterday afternoon Mr. Coming came up from Poughkeepsie and preached for us, it seemed very pleasant to hear him. Last night we had corridor prayer meeting, there Sept. 13, 1866? - 2 were about thirty of us there, it made me think of our little prayer meeting at home.1 took the letter, which Mrs. Dana so kindly wrote for me, to Miss Wiley and she came down to my room and called, it seemed very pleasant to see any one, who had ever been In Milwaukee, and she knew so many persons that I did, that 1 enjoyed telling her about them very much. I have Just seen Alice and Kate while we were together, Alice received a letter in which it spoke of the death of Col. Walker, is it not sad? You say that you think that I have had the best of the bargain, I think that perhaps if you had seen me once or twice when I have received letters, and also a week ago Sunday morning you might change your mind. I should not object to stop in and see you now for a little while. Kate, Alice and I went out to walk a little while this morning and X told the girls then, that if you were only here and rooming with me X should be as nicely situated as possible. Mamma writes that Flora Matson is going to be married in a few weeks. X should not send such a looking letter, but I do not know when I should get another one written. Though of course you will write before the wedding yet after it X shall expect a nice long letter, giving me a full account of it. After I reached here I found that X should be obliged to have a gymnastic suit, accordingly X obtained permission to go down street, there Sept. 13, 1866? - 122 were six of us went under the charge of one teacher, and it was per- fectly comical, no matter what we wanted we had to all seven of us go into the store after it. I got me waterproof cloth for my suit, and trimmed it with red braid, one of the girls cut it out for me, and another plaited it, and is going to make the button holes, so you see that there are some kind girls here. Just think Kate I have only been examined in Reading, Spelling, Arithmetic, Algebra, Geometry, Gram- mar, Rhetoric, Geography, and Latin, and handed in one composition. There my sheet is filled and I must stop with a great deal of love to your mother and sister, I am as ever Your affectionate friend, Mary. Go and see Mamma as often as you can. Mary.
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Creator: Badgley, Mary M.
Date: September 13, 1866
Text: Poughke epsie, N.Y., Sept. 13th, 186- ,1866? , Dear Kate, I have put off writing to you until I should get established in school, and as I reached Vassar College in safety yesterday, and had nothing particular to do, I thought I would write. Minnie and I had a very pleasant Journey, but very tired when we parted in New York. I went directly to White Plains, I had a very pleasant visit there; one day Uncle took me down to New York, we found Minnie, and Mrs. Dunn invited me to spend a day and...
Show morePoughke epsie, N.Y., Sept. 13th, 186- ,1866? , Dear Kate, I have put off writing to you until I should get established in school, and as I reached Vassar College in safety yesterday, and had nothing particular to do, I thought I would write. Minnie and I had a very pleasant Journey, but very tired when we parted in New York. I went directly to White Plains, I had a very pleasant visit there; one day Uncle took me down to New York, we found Minnie, and Mrs. Dunn invited me to spend a day and night with her, and she went back and spent the same length of time with me, so that waiwe were together for two or three days. I wish that you could have had some of the fruit that X had while there, such quantities and so nice. Perhaps you would like to know something about the College, well the picture on the front of the sheet is a very a good picture of the building and grounds in front of the house. The chapel where we have morning and evening prayers, and service on the Sabbath Is on the third floor it is a beautiful room, above that is the Art Gallery full of handsome pictures, and below It is the dining room the tables each seat about twelve and they have plenty to eat. Yesterday morning after I got here X was examined in Arithmetic, Geography, and Grammar to see whether I could be excepted, before I could be shown to my room. The room which I have is very pleasant, it is on the first floor there are three rooms opening into one study parlor, Sept. 13, 1S66? - 2 I have the single room of the three and think myself very fortunate; one of the double rooms is occupied by two sisters, Helen and Hattie ^alen, from Michigan, they are very pleasantgirls, the other room is to be occupied X expect by Alice Holton and Kate Ober, though they have not come yet, so I think I am going to be very pleasantly situated, or at least almost more so than I could expect to be at boarding school. There are persons visiting the College now all the time, and many come out and ride around the grounds even if they do not come into the building. Oh dear.1 I have so many questions to ask about persons and things in Milwaukee, that I do not know where to begin or where to end. Have you commenced French yet? And what other lessons do you take? Has Jimmy gone back to College yet? Who are in the Senior class at school this year? Has Ella Godfrey gone home yet? Now remember Kate you have got to write me a great long letter as soon as you get this, answering every one of my questions, and telling me every thing else that is going on. If dear little Marion Matson ever has her picture taken, you must remember that I am to have one. I presume that Minnie Bradford is going to remain in New York, as she is not here, and I have not heard from her, though I expect a letter all the time; and every time I hear any- one passing through the hall I think it may be Alice and Kate, though it is rather early in the morning to expect them, as it takes nearly two hours to pass through the examinations. How is Kittle Brodhead getting along? Sept. 13, 1866? - 3 How soon is Maggie Pierce going South and has Willie Sanderson got home from his hunting? I think I must close now for my trunk has come since I have been writing, and I want to get it open and my things put away. I sincerely hope you will excuse the number of I's in the letter but I could not seem to help it very well. With much love to yourself, Mother and Mrs. Dana, and to all the girls, I am as ever your Aff. friend Mary M. Badgley. Please write the number of your house in your next letter.Miss Kate Flanders Milwaukee Wis. (Corner Mason & Jefferson Streets)
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