[Paragraph breaks added for ease of reading.]Mt. Holyoke College
So. Hadley Mass.
Sept 20, 1895.
Dear Exits,
It is time another letter was off for you. Yours came Tuesday as usual. Wednesday I swept the room, and wrote letters for a living. Guess I have answered all the letters which are due unless Mary Tate is due one. If she is you can answer it.
We are getting a series of foggy mornings. Don't like damp weather for a cut. [?] Science hall is pretty damp as there has been no heat there since last Spring. Think I shall have to strike for a fire. Work in the laboratory is about as usual. Havn't [sic] begun my other studying yet. Can't stop Miss Hooker long enough to get a plan of work in Botany. Guess I shall have to let her go, and adopt Miss Worden.
If you would like some more scrawl you can send up my charcoal outfit. Cant find it here. Have a chamois that will do. Want any charcoal holder and atomizer. Pen box will hold them. Only ten more days in Sept. think we shall go to Springfield in a week or two.
Recieved [sic] an invitation to Grace's wedding Tuesday. Think that house will be done in a week from Tuesday. Miss Bowers, who was teacher or student when you were here is in town. I haven't seen her yet although she has been in the room a number of times to see Bertha. Bertha's mother was a teacher here from '53 - '58 - Cant remember her name now.
Dont work his students too hard. Use [...] easy - what remarks had the school visitor to make?
Had warmed over sweet potatoes and biled [sic] eggs for breakfast. Have had hash three mornings this week so far. Mr. Bates says I can have cuttings from his larger yellow and white chysanthemums next spring if I want them. If you do say so when the time comes. It is nearly time for chapel. Picked a handful of hazel nuts Wednesday on the road to the bracket-man.
Did I tell you that the box with the medicine starch, shoe blackening, hammer, etc. was no where. There is bell for chapel, cant be late.
Good Bye
Seraph Bliss