Vassar Callage,
June 4, 1871.
Dearest Carrie,
I am beginning my letter te yen this morning so that I may have
the afternoon for a nice long nap. Our evening Chapel services have been
changed so that we may take our exercise after tea and before Chapel. It
is much nicer so, because the day is very warm for walking. This Is the
first Sunday of the month but it was so warm that I did net go In te church.
We have to ride In an omnibus which is generally crowded and it Is not
very pleasant. Did I write you that the last time I went In the omnibus
went so far down In the mud that we all had to get out and walk seme
distance? The Pres. gave us this morning a very long and, I presume, a
stupid sermon. I say presume, because I could not keep my mind on what
the Pres. was saying aad I hardly remember a thing which he said.
You speak of attending the tableaux given by the society of our
church at the Opera House aad have never told me before that there was
as an Opera House
such a placeAln Austin. Is It a thing sprung up In a aight like the ancient
bean* or has one el our old halls been rechristened? I wish X could see
Msj. Evans. Can't you by some means procure a photograph aad send me?
If X remember Mr. Brittain well, his hair would not require much friaalng
to make it resemble a fashionable dandy of the present time. Does he laugh
as much as formerly? Do you remember the day he came out te call with
his sister and the lemonade we passed them? Tau did net tell me who teok
you to the hop, aad If it had not been fer Mamma's thoughtfuiness X should
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have been left In Ignorance upon that important point.
iNaaaie? ,
X wish Mamie Hopkins would write to me. Ploase tell her so, and
ask Carrie Haynie ,? , if she can find time to write ma occasionally. Do
you ever see old Mrs. Grumbles and hor "gude man." The old lady has
not written to me for a long* long time. Floase give nay love to hor and
the Maj. whan you see them. Speaking of sending love reminds ma that
Connie Smith wished me to sand hers to you. She has Invited me to visit
her immediately altar school doses and I presume that 1 shall stay a day
or so In New York before going on to Conn. 1 had rather not because it
will be very warm and rather troublesome doing so, but Connie does not
like it because X did not visit her In the spring, and Florence Smith wishes
me totcome and see her this summer at Now Port. Will you ask Mamma If
she thinks X had better do so? Our reviews are going to bo very hard. In
Latin we we review an Oration of Cicero each day until we finish what we have
read, and I presume that we will have four days far reviewing tho two books
of Virgil which we have been reading this spring. I wish you were reading
Virgil with us. I am sure you would like It. Tha story Is very Interesting
and tha descriptions are so beautiful. I am really beginning to like Latin.
I suppose because X can understand it a little. French reviews are hard.
Miss Kapp asks all the little rules and X fear X should not do very well If
she asked me many question. But she seldom calls on me to recite. X do
not know why. Our French class is very largo, there are aver fifty scholars
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In it* When Mademoiselle Slmonds was here the girls tsted to left her
class for ours* She was so cross* Have X told yon that Mile, left College?
We were all so glad to get rid of her*
around the neck
In wearing the chemises you made for me I find that tine bandsAare
rather small to be comfortable Will you make the others larger? I think
that I sent you the length around those which I wear now*
There have been®* good many cases of small~po* In Poughkeepsie
and Dr. Avery thought that we all should be vaccinated. As it Is a great
many years since mine took I have been vaccinated again. It Is several days
since, but as yet it has not begun to take. The Dr. thought that it would
because the mark on my arm Is so slight. The measles are in Poughkeepsie
and it is feared they will reach the College. Isn't It fortunate I da not have
them to dread again. I want to play "Tam a shanter" and hear you play
"Wandering Jew." 1 wish I was home. \ .
goodnight
with love Julie
(Julia M. Pease, '75,