Poughkeepsie December. 12th 1867.
My dear Doct. E. L. M.
Yours of last Saturday8 date came duly to hand, giv-
ing me an account of your surjournings to the place of
your birth,—you were more fortunate than a certain
Lady was when asked by a gentleman the place of her
nativity, who reply! O she had none as she was the wife
of a Methodist Minister!
But laying puns asside, we very much regretted you
and you good wife' absence from our sociable on the
evening of the 6th current, for we had realy a happy
joyfull time of it,—numbering some hundred & odd
guests, composed of the Faculty, Prof8, and Teachers
of the College, with our City (College) Trustees, and
other notables, made up a party of pleasentry & social
chat,—seldom equaled for literary distinction especialy
at the tables of refreshments, It was realy a mental &
physical feast, the latter was got up by our best caterers
for the inner-man in our City,—so you see your " hopes
of our having a good time " of it has been reilised.
Yours in the Traces &c &c,
M. Vassar
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