Vassar College
April 4, 1875.
Dear Cousin Ann,
We were delighted to get your letter a day or two ago.
1 think it is very strange 1 do not hear from Aunt Helen. I wrote quite a
while ago sending her my picture and she has not acknowledged it. Our
vacation is most over, we begin to study again Thursday. We have had a
very quiet but very pleasant rest. We have read "Our Mutual Friend" out
loud, and we liked it very much.
Yesterday morning I went over the steward*s department and since
then it is a wonder to me that we have as good food as we do. Perhaps you
would like to know a little of what it takes to feed four hundred girls. When
we have beefsteak it takes 158 lbs. We drink 350 qts. of milk a day, and use
when
2 barrels of flour. There are two bakers andAwe have rolls for breakfast
they have to begin to bake them at midnifeht. We use 75 Ibs.to 100 of butter
a day, 7 or 8 bushels of potatoes a day. When we have eggs we take 1200.
Aren't the pictures of the children splendid? Have you a cabinet siaed one
of Richie ? I hope you have for they are so good.
In Mamma's last letter she told us to be ready for a telegram any
day after the twentieth, for they are only going to stay a very short time in
New York, and shall want us to come right down to see them. Isn't it splen-
did to think that we shall probably see them two months sooner than we
expected to? We have had several spring days but to-day it is quite chilly.
Sept. 22, 1869 - 1875
In Richie's last latter he said they had had but little confusion so
far, and that he thought they would get off nicely.
With much love to Cousin Ellen, Cousin Adeline and yourself, X am
your loving,
Helen F. Banfield.
(Helen (Banfield) Jackson, '79,
To Ann Scholfleld, Boston.