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Page 21 text:
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Another of grandmother's rhymes is about Mrs. Lillie, then Marian, Hempstead. In the rhyme she is Rosaline. Some of you know and love her and go to see her. So you see how mathematics and poetry and science and art are in the very air you breathe. I have given you n brief glimpse of the life once lived on your own hill as my mother remembers it when she was a little girl, seventy years ago. Your warm friend, ANNA HEMPSTEAD BRANCH. 0 College years - How swift Th;v run
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MISS BRANCH'S LETTER Dear Girls of the Class of 1921 : I wonder if you know that two generation:? before Connecti- cut College was dreamed of, the hill on which it stfu'mds was IW.'Pn then, in a very modest way, the home of Art and BCI-GHCE. I like to think of the queer little old white farmhouse as it was when my mother lived there during two years of her little girlhood. At that time her mother, who was Mary Hempstead Bolles, wrote and illustrated what was probably the first children's book pub- lished in Connecticut. This, with the four succeeding it, was put forth in one volume called The Casket of Toys. My own copy has red and gold covers. Some day when you come to tea with me in this old house, ask me to show it to yvou. There are stories and poems and dear quaint pictures. Among the poems is an illustrated alphabet beginning: A for an Apple so rosy and round. When it reaches M it says: M is for Mary so full of her play. Mary was my mother. and there is a picture of her illustrating the rhyme. The picture shows her as she looked when a little girl in short skirts and scalloped pantalettes, playing with her kitten while grandmother drew her. Another of the rhymes says: W is for William, A smart lad is he. William was a real oy, and he was a smart lad. He was my mother's cousin, William Palmer Bolles, and he lived on the farm next south of the present College grounds, and since known as the Calvert place. His picture makes him look like a very intelligent, dignified little boy. He grew up to be Dr. Bolles t;f Bc'yston, Mass., and You are now using his beautiful library, his microscope and his fine telescope, all of which he bequeathed to -Connecticut College in his will. I think he also gave you an Instrument invented by his father, William Bolles, which would sBolve problems in trigonometryap interesting device. William olles also compiled a dictionary while living on Bolles Hill. You will find a copy of it in Dy. Bolles collection of books. He loved Bolleswood when a bo tf-xrough the woods and pastures. violets around the Hill. I wonder Yy and used to go botanizing He found seven varieties of how many you have found. 18
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