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Creator: Kiliani (Taylor), Lillian
Date: April 27, 1873
Text: Baden, April 27th, 1873 Dear Grandmother! I received your last letter on Thursday and was very glad to get it. I wrote to Mary Sickles about two weeks ago, and I expect a letter from Rose soon. I would like a letter from Percy, but I have no time to write first, but I would answer a letter from him if I got one, besides I was to see if he has made any progress. There is a young American lady here, from Cleveland, Ohio, knows Eva White and she has heard of your Golden Wedding, but she had...
Show moreBaden, April 27th, 1873 Dear Grandmother! I received your last letter on Thursday and was very glad to get it. I wrote to Mary Sickles about two weeks ago, and I expect a letter from Rose soon. I would like a letter from Percy, but I have no time to write first, but I would answer a letter from him if I got one, besides I was to see if he has made any progress. There is a young American lady here, from Cleveland, Ohio, knows Eva White and she has heard of your Golden Wedding, but she had forgotten the name. She had been at Vassar and she like it very much; she hastold me so much about it, that I want to go dreadfully badly, and if Papa has money enough, when we get back to America, which I think he will, I am going, to give a finishing touch to Latin and music, and learn some Greek, Algebra, Rhetoric and Astronomy. Was not there some talk of Ms. Sickels bringing Lydian and the girls over to Europe this year? It would be nice if they came and left the girls here with me. I suppose I shall stay her until we go back to America, as I like the school and the girls very much. I am going to begin to draw heads. I am very glad about it, because they are much more interesting to draw thanplain landscapes. Please do not write anything to mama or papa about it, because I want to surprise them, when I go to Gotha in the summer vacation. Aprils is a dreadful month here; yesterday it snowed dreadfully one minute, and the sun came out and shone very brightly the next. We don't have such sudden changes, at least in America, as here. Miss Cowles and I were talking about American eating the other day, and I was so surprised, she said they had dried beef in Cleveland too, I thought that was only to be had in Chester County. Give my love to grandpapa, Becky, and all inquiring friends from your affectionate granddaughter. Lilian Taylor
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Creator: Kiliani (Taylor), Lillian
Date: February 04, 1877
Text: V«smr College. Fob. 4, 1877'. Dour Grandmother, Mama wrote ma that you wasted me to write to you* so I do it, especially as I had intended to lor soma time past. I suppose mother has written that I like it vary much here, that is usually what everyone asks ma tha first things I wish I had counted how many times I have been asked it. I like It very much, and as a general thing, I like tha girls vary much. I am going to have another room next year, if 1 can. as I don't like the girls...
Show moreV«smr College. Fob. 4, 1877'. Dour Grandmother, Mama wrote ma that you wasted me to write to you* so I do it, especially as I had intended to lor soma time past. I suppose mother has written that I like it vary much here, that is usually what everyone asks ma tha first things I wish I had counted how many times I have been asked it. I like It very much, and as a general thing, I like tha girls vary much. I am going to have another room next year, if 1 can. as I don't like the girls well enough to be with them all tha time. I dont know but X shall make a change in that before the year is out. We have a very nice time and a grant deal of fun, wo hava plays or something of the kind every Friday evening, and can goAdance in the Gymnasium every Friday and Saturday evening. We have had gymnastics now for the last two months or more, and I like them very much. My muscles are getting-vary^qulte strong, I swing from rings, snd hang by my hands and arms so much. I am Just as well as I can be; every body says so. People look at me, and say, "Well, you are evi- dently nut studying too much at Vassar." We had splendid coasting for or three weeks until about a week ago, and since then It has been so warm that the willows are beginning to get yellow at the tips of the branches. This is the last week of the first semester, or half-year, and we are all studying quite hard, as we have to review everything that Oct. 17, 1869 - 2 we have been over during the semester. Besides that, 1 am on one or two committees to get up plays, aad all sorts of things of that sort, so for title last week I have been, and all next week Z will be busy from morning till night. But then the new semester begins and Z haven t much to do until Ju&e. We have been having lectures on sur- veying last week from our Professor of Mathematics, and 1 am very anxious to surve/. Z think It must be real fun, aad Z am going to aak the Professor if she won't let me go out and survey with the Class next spring. Zm»> must stop now, aa Z must write some more letters, for ..'.,•'! ■ ' I ' ' 1 1 > .'..,:!'. j i ' I Sunday is my only writing-day just now, aad Z have a dreadful stack oa hand that want answering. Tell Freddy Z will answer his letters as soon as possible. Give my love to grandfather. Aunt Annie and Uncle Charles, Freddy and Emma, from your loving granddaughter Lilian Taylor. Lillian (Taylor) Klllani, ex-'79
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Creator: Kiliani (Taylor), Lillian
Date: November 15, 1944
Text: Dean Mildred Thompson Vassar College Pougkeepsie, NY Dear Miss Thompson: THis letter is being addressed to you since I am not sure just which person or group would be most interested in receiving the enclosures. Enclosed are three letters of my grandmother's, Lillian Taylor, (later Mrs. Otto Kiliani). The first is dated April 27, 1873, from Baden, in Germany, and mentions that she has heard of Vassar and hopes to go there. The other two are dated Feb. 4, 1877 and OCt. 21, 1877...
Show moreDean Mildred Thompson Vassar College Pougkeepsie, NY Dear Miss Thompson: THis letter is being addressed to you since I am not sure just which person or group would be most interested in receiving the enclosures. Enclosed are three letters of my grandmother's, Lillian Taylor, (later Mrs. Otto Kiliani). The first is dated April 27, 1873, from Baden, in Germany, and mentions that she has heard of Vassar and hopes to go there. The other two are dated Feb. 4, 1877 and OCt. 21, 1877 respectively and make some mention of classes and extracurricular life at Vassar. THese are being sent to you with the thought that they may be of interest to the college if so make whatever use of them you choose. Sincerely, Natalie Kiliani, 1937
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Creator: Kiliani (Taylor), Lillian
Date: November 17, 1948
Text: November 17, 1944 Miss Natalie Kiliani 320 East 57th Street New York 22, New York My dear Natalie: I was greatly interested to read the letters which you have sent me from your grandmother, Lillian Taylor. I am going to pass these on to Miss Raymond who will read them with great delight. I am sure, and then place them in the library with our alumnae collection. We are pleased to have letters of our alumnae of early days which give us the reactions of young people to college life at different...
Show moreNovember 17, 1944 Miss Natalie Kiliani 320 East 57th Street New York 22, New York My dear Natalie: I was greatly interested to read the letters which you have sent me from your grandmother, Lillian Taylor. I am going to pass these on to Miss Raymond who will read them with great delight. I am sure, and then place them in the library with our alumnae collection. We are pleased to have letters of our alumnae of early days which give us the reactions of young people to college life at different periods of Vassar's existence. With my cordial greetings, I am Sincerely yours, CMT/BQ
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Creator: Kiliani (Taylor), Lillian
Date: October 21, 1877
Text: Yfttsa? College* Oct. 21. 1877. My dear Grandmother:- X was very glad to get your letter; you are oae of the host correspondents 1 hare, you answer sooaer then anyone else. In spite of your rheumatism, and always write alee, long letters. The Jasmins you sent Is Just as fragrant as It eaa be still, X am very much obliged lor It X wish the children would write to me. I should like very much to have letters from them, and I would answer them too. I had a visit from mother week before last,...
Show moreYfttsa? College* Oct. 21. 1877. My dear Grandmother:- X was very glad to get your letter; you are oae of the host correspondents 1 hare, you answer sooaer then anyone else. In spite of your rheumatism, and always write alee, long letters. The Jasmins you sent Is Just as fragrant as It eaa be still, X am very much obliged lor It X wish the children would write to me. I should like very much to have letters from them, and I would answer them too. I had a visit from mother week before last, which I enjoyed very much, and which she said ahe did too. X expect to spend next Sunday ** home. I will tell yoa a secret, only you mustn't let either mother or father know a word of It. Toa know the photograph of mother, Just the head, which Kurta took. Well, X am going to enlarge that, and make it life-site, and do It In India-Ink, as a Christmas present lor lather. Bat they are neither ol them to know anything about It. Don't you think that will please him? I am delighted with the Idea, and am going to begin tomorrow. How Is Rose Sickels? Does she seem any more cheerful, I suppose not, as the time of Mary's and her mother's death is coming near. Do yoa th&k she would like it, If X should write to her? X feel rather shy of her, as X don't know what It is to suffer the loss she has had, and I can't talk to her about Mary, and X feel as if It would be almost mocking her Oct. 17, 1869 - 21 to toll about all the good times I have bean having* X am very busy drawing now, and I like it very much; X go over to the studio lor an hour and a half every day, and draw from plaster-casts of V^T^g and feat, aad so forth* X like the shsritwg part ever so match, when X can see a hand getting round and looking mora like a hand from day to day* X know Miss Wicuersham by sight* and have been Intending already last year to call on her, as she seems to expect ma to do so, as X em In a higher class. Tha "Partial Collegiate" Course is a polite way of saying aha is a Preparatory, aad hopes to be a Freshmen next year. Give my love to grandpap, Aunt Emma aad the children, and to the Carey family* With much love for yourself, and hoping your Rheumatism is not so bad, I remain Tour laving granddaughter Lilian Taylor. Lillian (Taylor) KlUaai, ex-'79
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