Vassar College.
Oct. 9th 1870
My dear Papa*
Another Sunday has come and this afternoon before service in
Chapel commences I will write you. This morning a young lady and
myself have been out hunting chestnuts. We did not have very good luck
for X think X found only about a dozen. Sunday hero is such a very gloomy
day that we will do almost anything to make it pass quickly. There are
a good many chestnut trees In the Collage grounds but among four hundred
girls some are always ready to pick the nuts up as quickly as they fall.
After taking a morning walk on Sunday I generally go In library
and read until dinner which is at one oclock. Then write and dress until
chapel exercises. Is our church nearly finished? X should like so much
to see it for it will be lovely when completed. President Raymond has
preached here one Sunday and a minister from Poughkeepsie the other
while I have been here but neither were at all Interesting sermons. I
hope this afternoon wo will have something batter.
In the evening we have a prayer meeting and as we have services
in chapel directly after breakfast every morning I think we have sufficient
religious instruction. Although in a short time we commence having bible
classes on Sunday. The advantages here in some respects are not so very
great. None of the preparatory classes have exercises In either reading
or spelling, and none lower than the Freshman class write compositions.
I am very glad I do not have to do the latter. But of course it would be
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very improving for me too; it is too bed we do not take rending lessons
for I am very deficient in that respect and would like to make it up. I
think I shall ask the Pres. to let me have a practise period every day
although 1 do not expect to take music lessons, for if X do not touch the
piano for a whole year I shall forget all I know about music. They charge
a dollar a month for use of piano. Do you think it will be worth while?
You wrote some time ago that you were having the stove room and
bathroom made. Will they be finished by the time Mamma and Carrie
return? They will be quite an addition to the house, making it so much
more convenient.
The bell will ring for chapel in a few moments and I must close.
Accept lots of love and kisses
from your aff. daughter
Julie M. Pease
p.S. I have a favor to ask of you. Carrie is almost twenty years old and
has a great desire to possess a watch. Will you give her oae for a birthday
preseat? If you do she would have to get it this fall before she goes heme
as she may aot come North i»r a year or two agaia. Almost all girls her
age now have watches aad it would make her perfectly happy to receive
such a preseat.
loviagly
Julie.
(Julia M. Pease, »75,