Vassar *
Oct. 16 * 1874.
Dear Carrie,
Your nice letter was received one day this week with the greet-
est pleasure. Along with It came the first oae I have received from
Aunt Juliet. Ail were well and seem to have had a very good time since
our departure. There had been company more or less of the time and
I don't believe they missed us more than was natural.
Every day this week I have iateaded to write, bat something has
prevented- aad now I find a very good opportunity, when the house Is quiet
and the others are at supper. Tuesday of this week. Gov. Din and his
staff came to Po'keepsie to review some thousands of the State militia.
The fair ground where this took place Is quite near our grounds, so we
could hesr the music and drumming at times. Whea the review was over,
as had beea previously arranged, the Gen. aad Staff came to this buildiag
of fame, examined its various parts, and finally took their stand or rather
seats oa the platform of our modest chapel. Throughout the room were
we poor Innocents In our best Mb and tucker, arraaged In order to be
looked at, aad feellag very much like Charity chlldrea before the examin-
ing Committee. And still more so we felt after our Presideat's speech,
which was Indirectly an appeal for moaey. By the way there are not quite
400 here this year, and the Trustees feel some alarm for Vassar's pockets,
sfter the grest demand which has been made upon them this summer for
improvements - Gen. Dix made a few not very worthy remarks, in which
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he compared us to a "light brigade", and complimented us on our "appear-
ance" and "discipline", knowing nothing whatever ol the latter - Then the
show on both sides ended, and we had seen The Governor - X had hoped
Uncle would come with them, but unfortunately he did not * Among the
members ol the stall, was that youth, ol whose introduction to mysell I
told you thir summer. I recognised him but ol course had no means ol
letting him knows and he inquired ol the teachers lor me in vain, but X
think Miss Terry mi«»ht have sent lor me, don't you7 Today on coming
Irom dinner, Cliflle Loverin (Clifford F. Loverin, '75, and myself, were
informed a lady and gent, from Teams were in the parlor and would like
to see us. they proved to be Gen. Waul and wife from Galveston. He It
seems has something to do with education In the state, and so wished to
see Vassar, and finding there were Texans hare inquired for us - He had
met Clifford before, and myself also he said, when X was small, but would
have recognised me »*from my resemblance to my lather". We were with
them some hours, showing them about. They then left for New York, wish-
ing to be remembered to the home people.
The "klelne Allen" as we call her, or rather the Texas girl has left
I believe. Her examinations were not very creditable, and therefore she
left, X presume, for I really do not knows no one has hoard from her since
she left Saturday to stay with her mother in town until Monday -
Have begun Music lessons, and find that X have not lost quite as
much as X feared, although yet a good deal -
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Miss K&pp, (Csecelie Kspp, our Gsrxnaa teacher says that shs
has heard ol a very good German school somewhere in Texas kept by
two ladies. I think it is the one in Austin, and intended to write you the
names and see if it is the same, but unfortunately 1 have forgotten them*
Please do you send me their names very plainly written, because if they
are the ones of whom Miss Kapp has heard, she desires her love sent,
although she has never seen them -
I am sitting now for a week or two at the German Table and enjoy
myself quite well* German is now pretty hard as we have to writs in
German aba tracts of the stories we read und das 1st nicht leicht su thun*
Do write me often such a good loag letter aa your last, for they
are the next best thing to seeing you in the flesh ~
With much love to all -
Julie *
(Julia M* Pease, *75,