Student Letters

Sept 5, 65 (2) if you could have smelt it as I did when I entered the door, your mouth would have watered. Ask Mr. Colkin to let you see letter I wrote him as I cannot send you a copy I have not time. What you call napkins I thought were old ones for my nose I will look again. I have no napkin ring? Only Ivoy uses them. Wm Clift jr of New York City is the Pres. of Club & uses them no one else that I have seen. I want a napkin ring. Seymour is a nice boy his diffidence is wearing off. Tell Aunt Sarah she don't know anything about it she has not seen enough of him to judge I don't see how he could hurt me? There is a bank here if I can negotiate checks in no other way I can call there. I will send you medicine in the way of letters pretty often. I hate steel pens I shall get a gold one first chance I will consult you first (Filial) Ahem! I sleep in bed. Can I speak more definitely. Blankets are thick & heavy. Why did you wish to see Dr. Lippe? Comfortable about 7ft long & about

I8ft wide of brown color one side a black edge + on the other brown throughout. [image with 3 stripes horizontally and "Brown" in the center stripe] The bed is of a kind of glazed ticking I suppose becau it is new. (side of the bed [drawn imge]) some of those black things come out. how shall I keep them in? How do you wash brushes + combs? send receipt. I have not got straw for underbed nor marked clothes. Have not had time. Will write history of 1st day in school + of 1st Sabbath sometime if you will remind me. If you can send some old curtain cord it will do for the book shelves [Image in a pyramidal shape]. Take good care of telegraph line on top of house + don't let it get broken Let Bert Adams keep a lookout for it. (3) (Mother's letter) Last night some mischief was done. Grapes Watermelon + Cantelopes suffered. I don't know who were the boys. Send advice about night calls I got to bed at 9PM and consequently am not out, the rollers for window can be made to fit but you sent nothing for them to roll in. It was an oversight I suppose. Send fixings if you can with pantaloons also stuff to

mend my pantaloons that are worn through in the seat. My grey suit I mean. Keep up the praying daily or you will hear that I have fallen through + am coming home. Stove not up yet will be tomorrow Mitchell is going to get the wood for us. He was here just 5 years ago. A teacher named Perkins rooms opposite to us. 4th House 4 & we are 4#3 he was in the same class with Mitchell here. My room shall not be damp. I don't require much to make me comfortable I can put up with circumstances but I thank you for offering me such a plenty of chink I shall write if I want any. If you don't like my purchases or think them too high or anything let me know immediately as soon as you recieve each statement of acct's. I will not be in debt. In study hours most study I am not disturbed I will regulate that. Things have not got their places yet. I always go to Dr. Yaylor for counsel I like him exceedingly. He keeps all the reciepts for boys bills till July 20-1-2-3-4-5

& then distribute them. I don't know his object. I am in the choir the and we sing at prayers every morning and in church on Sundays. I have not had time to arrange the trip accounts yet I will take first opportunity. Let me know if you are in a hurry it and I will make time. (3) (Alice's letter). To what time do refer in "How flattering a likens you made of yourself & yet it annoyed the true idea to our minds of your situation at that time." Thanks for the idea about 2 thermometers the one mother sent does not go below zero & will not do for outdoor work in winter. Walter Rogers Beach 4 House 6. Senior. [?] Arthur Strong [?] to Judge Strong 4.5 Senior and [Gray?] Middler. [?] Senior & Seymor Eng. Dep. 4.3 & Perkins Teacher 4.4. 6 in our house. I find my trunk does well enough without a bureau and Seymour thinks his does. at end of term or year I will get a 2hand one of some one who leaves. Find where Dales have gone to & let me know Henry's address. My love to [?] & tell them to think

+ I wish you not to call my letters strange! I dont like it + wont have it Ugh! now! mind that! Dr. Lippe is not my favorite doctor I wish you to be careful how you call people my favorites Ugh! now! mind that! Jessie Campbell is my favorite cousin.

Please explain_(medicine). sent in doses + suit the ideas of + knew who sent it. You can keep your love if you can call it love we don't want any such trash up here. I had almost forgotten uncle Louis but I will write him soon I must write John Henry soon. I will suggest merely as a passing remark that good bye is not spelt good By I will buy other little things + send in a bill of almost $20.00. Will that suit. I ask for letters every day but the man tells me there are not any for me he is deaf. I think he is

Monday morning Sept. 11. 1865

Dear Mother, Did you see the letter I wrote Mr. Calkins? Some of the boys brought letters from home + go to other churches. It requires a pair of pants with a leather seat to stand sitting on the benches at prayer. [sketch of benches] the recitation benches at the same kind seats at dinner + seats at home [illegible] at church are all of wood + ne'er a cushion. I ache sometimes from sitting 2 hours at a time on them.

Daily routine AM 6 rise 6 1/2 breakfast (hard chairs) at Union Club.. 7 study (hard chairs) at Home 81/2 go to prayers (hard seats) at "Old Brick" 9 ~~ recitation (hard seats) ~ "Theo. Sem" 10 1/2 ~~ study (hard chairs) ~ Home 12 ~~ dinner (hard chairs) ~ U. Club. 12 1/2 ~~ -play (soft seats) 1 1/2 ~~ Study (hard chairs) at Home

3 1/4 go to recitation (hard seats) at "Theo Sem." 4 1/2 or 3/4 ~~ play (soft seats) 5 ~~ Supper (hard chairs) at U Club. 5 1/2 ~~ play (soft seats) 7 ~~ study (hard chairs) at Home 9 excused to do as you like until 8 1/2 next morning. I study in the morning 7-8 1/2 but it is not required I study 1 1/2 in morning from 11 1/2 to 12 I generally write letters for I can't study after recitation. + 7-9 2 hours in evening Total study 3 1/2 hours. Saturdays we are free from 10 1/2 AM to 7 P.M. Wednesday there is speaking in the afternoon at "Old Brick" at 1 1/2 we do not attend. I speak next Wed. Quite a number of the boys are sick with headache + diarhea. I have had the headache but not much diarhea. I am taking camphor. In your letter you speak of buying pants. Most of the boys buy theirs in Boston. They are old + not a good assortment. Checks on Philada are cashed for 25 cts the amount of the check not being counted. In sending money

Sept. 11.65 Sept. 1st, 1865 Balance on hand per last a/c $6.06 Sept. 5. 1865 Gaeh from Letmon pr. mitchell for change of room $7.45 Cash . . . fir Washetand .75

Sept 11,65 Alice Please explain "That (the $7 from tickets) added to the $12 which your board will cost will make enough to bring you home" I have had several duckings since I wrote last. Can you cook with the range yet? I thank you for the insinuation about my [?] in New York at night. Please send my muse to meet me + take me home. If you can find the large almanac in red printed by Ringwalt + Brown roll it up like music + send it to me. I want it very much indeed Yours, N.W Cary To Mother Seymour classes in the english department [?] I have told you the names of the boys 2 seniors 1 middler Seymour + myself + a teacher by the name of Perkins. You ask the names + sizes George Arthur Strong 4 House 5 room senior about 1/2 head taller Walter Rogers Beach 4 House 5 room senior about my size John Gray 4 House 5 room Middler about 1/2 head taller I wish you would send money to Cousin Geo. Ward for [metodrama?]. But I dont want to trouble him so much. I will write him if I get into trouble. I wish you would send a basket of Phil. peaches up here. Peaches here are about the size of walnuts. Geo. Dodge is a nice fellow not extra quick in study but I can judge better when we get in [?] when we will be on an equal footing I have translated what he has not. He is not at all like his father. He is restless in church. Who would not be with such seats? When I write I do as you do about playing letter before you + when I have ans all the questions I take a list + ask you things Lovingly little mother. Tell me what time letters reach you. [?] mails go out at 12 M + 6 PM + two in at 8.30 A.M. + 4 P.M. This letter will leave at 6 P.M. tonight tell me when you get it. Have you paid your life insurance at New York + what arrangements did you make about insuring the addition to the building? What did the hooks you sent, cost? Also the slippers? Also paper collars? Also linen collars? Also shirts? The boys

Andover. Mass Sept.13.1865 Dear Mother, I am in trouble. Last night about 7 1/4 Taft Senior came in + sat in the rocking chair + acted foolishly I suspected something & soon Gray Middler came in + asked me to go + look at some stove pipe which he had offered me for sale.* I went got them + on returning when on stairs leading to 2nd. story I received the contents of a full pail ful of water it was dark but I heard

*I omitted I looked for my hat to put it on to go with him not finding it missing, supposing I had mislaid it I borrowed Seymours,

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steps upstairs + a door close I went up + found after a long knocking at the door + getting in an assembly. Taft then proposed Mr Beach Senior as Chairman + they had a mock meeting I was elected Sec. pro. tem. (Explanation of Sec. pro. tem. The class had a meeting the other day + I in simpleness of heart, got up stated that there should be a Secretary pro. tem. to keep a record of the meeting + also asked what the [?] of the meeting was. I learned that it was to engage speakers +c. for the winter + if not enough tickets are sold each time the club class makes up the rest. Since then they regarded this as interference + sec. pro. tem has been a joke against me.) Taft is a great coarse boy who smoke, chews, + swears. He uses tobacco so much that he cant say the name Cary [?] care - [?]. His tongue is as thick with chewing.)

Shall I pay my share or not.