748 Asylum Ave.Dear Miss Baker:
Do I owe you a letter or do you owe me one, or both, or neither. Well I am going to break the clammy silence (now that is not bad.)
I suppose you go back to dear New Salem very soon now - or are you not going back there? Your new supervisor will be my substitute of three years ago when I was abroad. I want you to tell me how she gets along and if the pupils seem to like her &c &c. Oh and tell me just who is in school and remember me to those I know. And oh, above all else I am crazy to hear about the new principal! Now you can't think how disappointed I'll be if you do not go back and I cannot learn these things.
I wonder if Miss Bliss is going back. Give her my love if she is there.
Do write and tell me how you are and how you have spent your Summer. Have you heard regularly from Frank? Is he going back to New Salem. His father wrote me such a nice testimonial. And Mr. Ballard wrote me a masterpiece.
Now when you write to me I will write again and tell you how I have spent my summer and where I am to be this Winter. (If I have left home then your letter will be forwarded.)
Lovingly yours
Helen W. TraverAugust 23, 1907.