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Greenfield Sep. 14th 1852 My dear Jennie.

    The fourteenth of September has come, and O how quickly! I could scarce believe that five weeks have flown since I bid you and Mary good bye as you were sealed in the stage, did not that saucy almanac tell me so. Now agreable to my promise I shall impose upon you a very prosy epistle I fear. As I write my thoughts carry me back to time when this promise was made. Do you reccollect it? We were walking together; you, Mary Ann and myself south of the Sem. We were talking of the future. I remember it perfectly, and love to think of it, and many other scenes connected with No. 106.

    You see by my question over the leaf that I do remember Sarah Colegrove. Then she is your sister! Well truth is stranger than fiction. But I congratulate you upon having such a sister, and when I see her I shall congratulate her upon having two such as you and Mary. Tell Mary to write me, especially after she gets back to the Sem. I shall expect to meet her then and talk face, that is before long. Remember me to your new sister Sarah and tell her I received a letter from Laura Hamlen (an acquaintance of her's and chum of mine) a short time since. She has just graduated at the Granville Sem. Granville Ohio and expects to engage in teaching somewhere in that state. I will send any likeness to you as soon as convenient. I hope you never told your brother R about our fun with his picture Now Jennie our letters will cross and who is going to write first after this. Please to write and settle the question. 
    Believe me as ever, your aff. section sister,  Maria

Tell Mary to inquire out Eliza Fritcher among the new scholars at the Sem. She is a friend of Mary Parry's and I do not know as she will have a single acquaintance at the Sem.