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annotation 1850's /annotation May 19, Steuben Stone Academy My dear Sister; It seems a long time since we heard from you last. We are quite anxious to hear how you are, and how you are getting along with your studies. I thought you said you were going to write a great many letters during the vacation, but I assure you we have not seen much of the fruit of your labor. Dear Mary we have been very negligent in writing to you of late, but you must "forgive and forget" wont you dear Mary. I thank you very much for those few lines you wrote me in your last letter. You are a good girl for remembering your sister Anna. We got that letter and another one to Sarah from you, the same day. I wrote to Siryei yesterday, it is a good while since we have heard from her. We have been expecting her up here now for some time, but have seen nothing of her as yet. She wrote wrote a good while ago and said