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Vassar Collage.
May 14, 1867.
Dear Will,
Don't I beg of your, imagine for an instant that your unwonted epistolatory efforts are to have the effect of silencing mine, that would be a feat as difficult to accomplish for my pea as my tongue. What a good boy you are! Minnie feels highly flattered that her remarks should have boon such early and delightful fruit - Your letters are like cold water to a thirsty soul, if you could in any way appreciate how much we enjoy them, you certainly would be willing to undergo considerable personal sacrifice for the purpose of affording us so much pleasure. Only five more weeks any way! Before I say another word, let me congratulate you upon your promotion. I have but a very vague idea what a "buying clerk" may be, but still I know that it is better than staying up stairs where I was in constant fear lest you should poison yourself, by smelling some thing awful, or put out your eyes by a sudden puff of something, or come to some other equally deplorable end. So Carrie is to be married! I hope that you will go to the wedding, as of course you will if she has any friends at all. Don't I wish that I could be there to see. Hattie and Minnie have scarcely time to breathe, they ought to have a vacation as College boys do, and our class are going to insist upon it next year. They have formed a class organization, and being small in number, but great in ambition, they each took two offices. So their list of officers reads as follows Pres. M. L. Dickinson, Vice Pres. E. S. Geiger, Sec. H. D. Woodward. Treas. H. A. Warner. Poet H. D. Woodward. Sybil E. J. Geiger. Historian H. A. Warner, and I can't think what other thing Minnie is. They have no motto yet, but look longingly toward the Greek language to remedy the deficiency - Our class, numbering twenty five in all, can look down with undisguised scorn upon four Seniors and tell with many derisive smiles, what shall be done by the mighty '68ers. Have you had any spring yet? I don't know whether we have or not. From my own sensations and those of the mercury I should say decidedly not - but the presence of flowers, most of them blue and shivering however, and on occasional light dress, make me believe that the mercury and I err a little in our judgment of things - Ralph Waldo Emerson is going to lecture for us on Friday evening. I am quite curious to hear him, but rather expect him to be dry - He has not condescended to inform the committee what may be the subject of his lecture, probably considering it sufficient that he consents to lecture to girls at all. I think that we shall have a very good course next year - Helen has, in addition to botanizing, taken kindly to surveying. They are surveying the College farm. I only trust that we shall have the pleasure of escorting her back to her paternal mansion an integer or whole number - I wish I were rather more active, and I'd write you a longer letter, but not feeling at all brilliant I think it my duty to stop before I ruin my reputation. Love to every body in the house & out of it who wants any. Good bye, continue in the well doing you have begun.
Your loving sister Marthy S. Warner
My dear Will,
I thank you very much for your letter & will write as soon as I have time. I am very busy owing to the nearness of the close of the year. Love to all.
Hattie
May 14, 1867.
Dear Will,
Don't I beg of your, imagine for an instant that your unwonted epistolatory efforts are to have the effect of silencing mine, that would be a feat as difficult to accomplish for my pea as my tongue. What a good boy you are! Minnie feels highly flattered that her remarks should have boon such early and delightful fruit - Your letters are like cold water to a thirsty soul, if you could in any way appreciate how much we enjoy them, you certainly would be willing to undergo considerable personal sacrifice for the purpose of affording us so much pleasure. Only five more weeks any way! Before I say another word, let me congratulate you upon your promotion. I have but a very vague idea what a "buying clerk" may be, but still I know that it is better than staying up stairs where I was in constant fear lest you should poison yourself, by smelling some thing awful, or put out your eyes by a sudden puff of something, or come to some other equally deplorable end. So Carrie is to be married! I hope that you will go to the wedding, as of course you will if she has any friends at all. Don't I wish that I could be there to see. Hattie and Minnie have scarcely time to breathe, they ought to have a vacation as College boys do, and our class are going to insist upon it next year. They have formed a class organization, and being small in number, but great in ambition, they each took two offices. So their list of officers reads as follows Pres. M. L. Dickinson, Vice Pres. E. S. Geiger, Sec. H. D. Woodward. Treas. H. A. Warner. Poet H. D. Woodward. Sybil E. J. Geiger. Historian H. A. Warner, and I can't think what other thing Minnie is. They have no motto yet, but look longingly toward the Greek language to remedy the deficiency - Our class, numbering twenty five in all, can look down with undisguised scorn upon four Seniors and tell with many derisive smiles, what shall be done by the mighty '68ers. Have you had any spring yet? I don't know whether we have or not. From my own sensations and those of the mercury I should say decidedly not - but the presence of flowers, most of them blue and shivering however, and on occasional light dress, make me believe that the mercury and I err a little in our judgment of things - Ralph Waldo Emerson is going to lecture for us on Friday evening. I am quite curious to hear him, but rather expect him to be dry - He has not condescended to inform the committee what may be the subject of his lecture, probably considering it sufficient that he consents to lecture to girls at all. I think that we shall have a very good course next year - Helen has, in addition to botanizing, taken kindly to surveying. They are surveying the College farm. I only trust that we shall have the pleasure of escorting her back to her paternal mansion an integer or whole number - I wish I were rather more active, and I'd write you a longer letter, but not feeling at all brilliant I think it my duty to stop before I ruin my reputation. Love to every body in the house & out of it who wants any. Good bye, continue in the well doing you have begun.
Your loving sister Marthy S. Warner
My dear Will,
I thank you very much for your letter & will write as soon as I have time. I am very busy owing to the nearness of the close of the year. Love to all.
Hattie
