Written from Exeter, New Hampshire. Reports that Laura and Susie have both gone, Susie to start school. Describes a visit to the beaches at Hampton and Rye and the ride back to Exeter, "singing songs, stealing apples, &c." She laments having missed a visit to the Swaseys due to illness; the Swaseys and Joe Byron had later visited and "took Lau and Sue off on a boat-ride where they flirted to their hearts content with my Joe. Scandalous wasn't it Gracie?" She had seen Joe again the next Sunday evening but he had since returned to Cambridge. She goes on to describe a late-night chat with Hannah Swasey's brothers, adding "The way the fellers have haunted this house, since our arrival, is a caution to sinners." Susie's friend Juliette Pease had also come for a visit and Georgia describes a long night sitting up with the girls talking. She also describes a scare the family received when John Conner's uncle Tom, "as jolly an old soul as you ever saw" scared Mary by rattling the doorknob and tapping on the windowpanes and asking in a squeaky voice "Can you show me the way to the jail?" She ends by ends Grace to write and tell her about the school and scholars, and to "keep an eye on" her big brothers. Envelope postmarked at Exeter, September 2, 1864, addressed to "Miss Grace D. Nichols, Care of A. J. Bird, Rockland, Maine."