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Kingham, Feb. 11, 1864
Dear Mr Vassar:
I received your kind letter on Thursday last- but have been prevented answering it until the present time, having been, in the meantime preparing for, and ultimately conducting the quarterly public examination of my school. - I wished very much to write to you at once. Will you please excuse me that I did not.
I thank you, Sir, for the Reports. I have read them with much interest. When I wrote you I thought that one could not enter your College without the customary
preparation termed “fitting,” and also that it was expected of them to remain four years. Since you have told me that such a course is not insisted upon, but that a pupil may take up any branch that she may hitherto have had no opportunity to pursue, and continue in the Institution less time than the four specified years. I have decided that, of all Schools, I would rather attend yours: and, if you will remember me, as you suggested when the glad time of its commencement comes, I shall be proud to enter those Halls as one of the “original” members of Vassar Female College. In my wildest dreams of the future I had never anticipated such high distinction.
And now, Sir, if it is not asking too much, will you please write me again, and tell me what will be the probable expense, per year, for me, at your school?
I wish so much that I might see and converse with you on this subject, and on others relating to the time where I in common with many other grateful women shall enjoy the fruits of your magnificence.
I am extremely sorry, Sir, that your health is not firm as you could wish. May God be with you, Sir, and may He restore you that priceless soon if it can be His Will.
And now, dear Sir, will you please accept my most heartfelt thanks for your kindness.
God’s hand, I trust, directed
me to you. My acquaintance with you marks an era in my existence. Henceforth, my path shall be broader, and light shall illumine the darkness which I have felt in these weary year.
May God bless you, dear Mr Vassar
Is the prayer of
Your Sincere friend
Ellen M. Davis
Dear Mr Vassar:
I received your kind letter on Thursday last- but have been prevented answering it until the present time, having been, in the meantime preparing for, and ultimately conducting the quarterly public examination of my school. - I wished very much to write to you at once. Will you please excuse me that I did not.
I thank you, Sir, for the Reports. I have read them with much interest. When I wrote you I thought that one could not enter your College without the customary
preparation termed “fitting,” and also that it was expected of them to remain four years. Since you have told me that such a course is not insisted upon, but that a pupil may take up any branch that she may hitherto have had no opportunity to pursue, and continue in the Institution less time than the four specified years. I have decided that, of all Schools, I would rather attend yours: and, if you will remember me, as you suggested when the glad time of its commencement comes, I shall be proud to enter those Halls as one of the “original” members of Vassar Female College. In my wildest dreams of the future I had never anticipated such high distinction.
And now, Sir, if it is not asking too much, will you please write me again, and tell me what will be the probable expense, per year, for me, at your school?
I wish so much that I might see and converse with you on this subject, and on others relating to the time where I in common with many other grateful women shall enjoy the fruits of your magnificence.
I am extremely sorry, Sir, that your health is not firm as you could wish. May God be with you, Sir, and may He restore you that priceless soon if it can be His Will.
And now, dear Sir, will you please accept my most heartfelt thanks for your kindness.
God’s hand, I trust, directed
me to you. My acquaintance with you marks an era in my existence. Henceforth, my path shall be broader, and light shall illumine the darkness which I have felt in these weary year.
May God bless you, dear Mr Vassar
Is the prayer of
Your Sincere friend
Ellen M. Davis
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