Written from Vineland, Cumberland County, New Jersey. Opens "Dear Grace." Notes that he had received her letter that evening. He sends a report about Celia, who had been on a visit but he had seen that evening and she was in good health. He returns to the topic of their salutations: "You think it familiar for one who never saw the other well to be candid about it I think perhaps we are both rather more so than is generally customary & then again we have always joked & carried on in our letters as though we were talking & so I guess it's all right - think if we ever meet we would carry on some & perhaps be the same as now, friends. It is all true that you know nothing about me only what you have heard from Celia and having only lived here about seven months she could not know me very well. I wish it were so that we both might get better acquainted but probably the time will never come that we shall see each other any more than we can be looking at a picture & as for your sending your photo I think you are right but I shall send mine as soon as I can get a good one taken." He reports that he doesn't think he will go to school much more, and has been sending strawberries to Philadelphia, 54 quarts the day before yesterday. Asks her to give his love to Lizzie Cobb "& receive more than half for yourself."

Envelope postmarked at Vineland, May 26. Addressed to "Grace D. Nichols, Rockland, M E." Written below the address "Kindness of my Uncle Sam."