Written from Vineland, Cumberland County, New Jersey. Reports that he got her letter via Mr. Orlando Linaker and hopes that she will not put off writing so long next time. Asks for her photo and says that he will have one done and send it to her "as soon as my Uncle Sam can carry it & I will request him to be right smart quick as the jerzy folks say." There is a long discussion about how they should address each other and he expresses a wish to "just for a moment behold thy angelic form and gaze into thy eyes." He writes about their strawberry vines and pear trees, peaches and blackberries. He asks her not to write French in her next letter as he cannot read it, and apologizes for his penmanship. Envelope postmarked at Vineland, May 8, 1865. Addressed to "Miss Grace Nichols, Rockland, Maine."