Vassar College
Poughkeepsie, N.Y.
Oct. 20, 1872.
My dear Auntie,
I was very glad to receive your letter and I don't know now
whether I owe you one but I should be very glad to reeeive two from you
to my writing one.
It is extremely cold today and they give us very little heat. I
wish I was seated beside your coal fire in the dining room with some
apples. Do you keep many flowers this winter? One of the girls in our
parlor has some but they are nearly destitute of leaves and do not look
very beautiful. The flowers are almost all taken up from the garden and
it looks very bsre. When I first eame it looked beautiful. Almost every-
thing was in blossom. The girls are all writing letters in our parlor in
fact, Sunday is the only day we have for letter-writing. T hope to have
my room changed before the year is out and room on the south side, for
we never have the sun. I never thought so much of it before. Have you
still as much company as before?
a few
Have you been nutting any this year? I got walnuts and
chestnuts the other day but I much prefer apples to nuts. Miss Cushlngs
Is going to read in Poughkeepsie next week, I should like to hear her
very much but I don't suppose I can go. Julie is going as she is a Sopho-
more. Have you ever heard Miss Cushlngs read?
Please write very soon for your letters are always gladly received.
With much love to Grandma and Annie
I remain your loving nelce
Jennie Ladd (Jennie A. Ladd, ex->76,