Written from Vineland, Cumberland County, New Jersey. Opens "My Dear Grace." Apologizes for not yet answering her letter of July 22, 1865, his parents having returned home and things being very busy. Describes a ride with his father and siblings of some eighteen miles. He reports that Celia had refused to give him the love Grace had asked her to deliver. He describes the state of the fruit crop and asks again for her photo. He suggests that he will write more with an ink that can only be seen after being heated, and leaves six lines blank at the end of the page and several lines at the top of the verso. He suggests heating the page over a lamp and encloses a wildflower he had picked that day [the outline of which is visible on the sheet]. Envelope postmarked at Vineland, August 8[?]. Addressed to "Miss Grace Nichols, Rockland, Maine, U S." There is another sheet with this letter containing a short note but it is unclear whether that belongs with this letter or not.