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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 after we were all ready, we walked. 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
Apr. 8, 1871 - 2
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, but when
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
with the four others who went with me. Only two, Sarah aad Bessie Hogg,
Apr. $, 1871 - 3
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 and takes 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 quarts of 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
Apr. 17, 1871 » 2
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 the
College, 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 to pick 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
Mar. 17, 1871 * 5
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.
Good night yourvery loving and very faulty Julie.
(Julia M. Pease, '75)
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, we walked. 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
Apr. 8, 1871 - 2
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, but when
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
with the four others who went with me. Only two, Sarah aad Bessie Hogg,
Apr. $, 1871 - 3
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 and takes 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 quarts of 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
Apr. 17, 1871 » 2
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 the
College, 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 to pick 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
Mar. 17, 1871 * 5
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.
Good night yourvery loving and very faulty Julie.
(Julia M. Pease, '75)
