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Dear brother Bangor July 17th '47. After this long delay, your shirts I hope will reach you Mr. Shepherd has been detained week after week by the work on his house; saying all the time he should start next week if I had known it would be long, I would have tried to find another chance to send them. Mother said you were rather destitute and I am afraid you have suffered inconvenience for the want of them. These shirts are made beautifully, the linen is very fine: much too fine for constant wear, even by a student, you can be a leetle careful of them and by the time the weather becomes somewhat cooler, we will some of us make you a pair a little thicker; if there is any thing about them that you would like made differently, write just what's. It will be a fortnight tomorrow since our ride home from Milo, I suppose Lucy has told you before now of the the good time we had, how we serenaded them; even Jo has got to be a singer it was really quite an event to me to have such a good ride, and spend three days at home too, without having any vacation; strawberries and cream were plenty:- Mond. the 5th, immediately after breakfast I went up the new road and in spite of the dew and wet ground, picked about two quarts of strawberries, then Charles, Mother, Lucy and I had a delightful ride up the new road: C. put Nelly into the carryall, and at first, her head was turned by the unwanted honour, so that she whirled round three times before C. could stop her: but after the first shock was over, went perfectly well. After the ride, Eliab & I determined upon a sail up the view, and not being able to any one to join us, we went alone in Uncle Henry's boat: we had an enjoyment in paddling along under the overhanging bushes, hearing the birds sing amidst the solitude and silence: we went up Baober brook half way to the new road Eliab said, we returned in time for dinner which we ate with fine relish, our dessert was each a saucer full of strawberries & cream. We started for Bangor about three, got in at nine, just as a few attempts were made at fireworks,- they never make out any thing here at that; too expensive perhaps, Since then I have been to Glenbarn with 6 or 7 others to sail over Pushaw, went to Lizzie Doe's father's to tea and had a delightful time._ Last week the weather was extremely hot; very pleasant this week since Tues. when we had a more sever thunder storm than is usual here, but no injury done that I know of. Yesterday S. W. Furber carried Mehitable up to Milo; she came in the boat, the day before: I suppose