My dear Lucy:-Perhaps you think I have forgotten that I promised to write you, and send you my picture. But I have not, I assure you, altho I am rather late in fulfiling [sic] my promise. I cannot send my picture yet for I have not had it taken, but am waiting for Miss Höfer to return my cap and gown which she ironed for commencement and which she wanted to keep until she got rested so she could have her picture taken for she had none in cap and gown. But I shall surely remember you when I have them.
I have been trying to get rested this Summer, and am beginning to feel like my old self a little. I have played tennis often with Hattie Manley, (whom perhaps you remember,) and in the mean time while I have been recovering from lameness I have been out driving. The last two weeks in August we had a camping party at South Pond in Brookfield. Gertrude Newell and brother, Helen Keeney, and several others, whom you do not know, were there. It was a most delightful spot, one of the most beautiful I have ever seen. I went in bathing nearly every day, and learned to row so now, I am quite an expert. I gained almost eleven pounds, and you would not be surprised if you had seen me eat. Why I had such an appetite I felt i must be eating all the time.
I am going to Boston soon to meet one of my B. I. friends, and then Gertrude Newell wants me to come and see her. Gertrude is teaching in the Academy at her home, and Louise Brown is also teaching at home.
I am at home keeping house, and helping my younger brother and sister with their studies. I find plenty to do I assure you.
Pauline Jennings is teaching English and French at the Leicester Academy.
I wish you would write for I am still interested in you and shall not forget you.
Ever lovingly
Edith Curtis.Saturday, Sept. 16, 1905.