10月1日
亲爱的长腿叔叔：
我喜欢大学，也喜欢送我来这儿的您——我真的非常非常快乐，时时刻刻都兴奋得睡不着。您无法想象这里跟约翰·格利尔之家是多么的不同。我深深地为所有不是女孩和不能来上大学的人感到难过。我相信您以前读的大学一定没有这么好。
在新的医务室盖好前，我的房间暂时位于以前是传染病房的大楼里。这层楼还有另外三个女孩子——一个戴眼镜的高年级女生，老是要人家安静一点，还有两个新生，莎丽·麦克白与茱莉亚·平莱顿。莎丽有一头红发，微扬的鼻子，人很和气。茱莉亚来自纽约某个上层家庭，还没注意到我。她们住同一间房，那个高年级女生跟我住单人房。学校里单间很少，新生一般不能单住，但我甚至没有提出要求就得到一间。我猜注册组的人觉得，让正常家庭长大的女孩跟孤儿住在一起不太妥当。所以您看，还是有好处的。
我的房间在西北角，有两扇窗，景致不错。在跟20个室友同住了18年后，孤独反而让人可以好好喘口气。这是让我认识乔若莎·亚伯特的良机，我想我会喜欢她的。
您呢？
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October
Dear Daddy-Long-Legs,
I love college and I love you for sending me-I'm very, very happy, and so excited every moment of the time that I can scarcely sleep. You can't imagine how different it is from the John Grier Home.I never dreamed there was such a place in the world.I'm feeling sorry for everybody who isn't a girl and who can't come here;I am sure the college you attended when you were a boy couldn't have been so nice.
My room is up in a tower that used to be the contagious ward before they built the new infirmary. There are three other girls on the same floor of the tower-a Senior who wears spectacles and is always asking us please to be a little more quiet, and two Freshmen named Sallie McBride and Julia Rutledge Pendleton.Sallie has red hair and a turn-up nose and is quite friendly;Julia comes from one of the first families in New York and hasn't noticed me yet.They room together and the Senior and I have singles.Usually Freshmen can't get singles;they are very scarce, but I got one without even asking.I suppose the registrar didn't think it would be right to ask a properly brought-up girl to room with a foundling.You see there are advantages!
My room is on the north-west corner with two windows and a view. After you've lived in a ward for eighteen years with twenty room-mates, it is restful to be alone.This is the first chance I've ever had to get acquainted with Jerusha Abbott.I think I'm going to like her.
Do you think you are?