“March 28th. Saturday. Began dissecting with Dr. Moseley ... oh, dear, isn’t it good to have some real teaching at last!
By-the-bye, the Blackwells think they could get us into Bellevue if Harvard refuses. New York for 3 winters? Shall I bring Alice or what? They want English ladies to come and make a class, and offer to receive them into the Infirmary. (But English ladies are not given to dine in kitchens on poor kitchen fare, etc.)
Is my old idea ever to work out by O. H. studying medicine? _Wouldn’t_ she be a good doctor!
By-the-bye, challenged by the Blackwells as ‘to whose management (in re English Female University) would inspire me with £1000 confidence,’ I say, O. H., Miss M., etc.”
She wrote delightful long letters to Dr. Sewall about the _minutiae_ of her work, and was somewhat concerned as to how the little Boston world was getting on without her.
“I am glad that you find out (as I told you you would) that I did do one or two little things while you wondered how I spent my time. I wish, however, that you had someone to do them now,—I am afraid you will get so tired. I shall ask Eliza if you eat properly. Tell her that I mean to write to her next time.
The little book of your bills is on my shelf in my secretary,—a small account book. Don’t muddle the things in looking for it. Be sure and put down in it all the bills you send out. Can’t you get Miss Call to write them for you? She really can _write_ (unusual in the N.E.H.)....
Tell me if Eliza does nicely,—tell her I asked after her and her housekeeping and Robert.
I am glad that my son Turk behaves better as he grows older. Give him an extra bone with my blessing.”
To her Mother she writes a long account of her difficulty in finding rooms at a reasonable price.
“So living in New York is neither easy nor cheap, you see, ... I hardly know how I shall manage if I go to a medical college this winter, and have to pay all lecture expenses, etc., besides living,— for women have to incur extra expense in all sorts of ways, because they can’t share the arrangements of some sorts made for men....
... while studying, Miss Garrett had, I know, to spend lots of money,— paying £50 for a single course of lectures which the men got (in class) for £5 each.