Memoirs are often tedious but
the picture and sketch of Dr.
Blackwell in the Sunday
Republican has so stirred my
own that "forth I must print
them" - I was a school girl of
fifteen in Geneva when Miss
Blackwell's possible admission
to the Medical College of Geneva
was talked about - The very
select school of Culvertson[?]
and McGregor of which I
was a member was in a
large wooden building nearly
adjoining the substantial brick
building Medical College - ^{on Main St}
The horde of students passing up
and down to their lectures were

     - For a few blocks up
the street Hobart College housed
young men so attractive of such
high degree that lessons were
sadly blurred and the morning
clouded if one missed the
passing greeting - the high lifted
hat of these handsome delightful
fellows - and what serenading!
When stars are in the quiet skies
There you'll &      Oh -
"Some are married most are dead" -
and all recalled by the