Mt Holyoke Seminary
May 13, 1865.Friend George
I have not forgotten my promise to send you my picture and although I cannot wholly fulfill it I will do the best I can. I said I would send my picture when I had a good one taken and this I most decidedly do not consider a good one, but if I waited for that I fear it would be a very long time indeed before I should be able to send you one. When I had this one taken I think I must have had as many as ten different proofs taken and as poor as this is it was the best of the ten. [The photo is no longer with the letter.] You will have to trust still in a great measure to your imagination of how your friend Hattie looks. If you are home next summer, perhaps you will not have to depend either upon imagination or a picture for how I look for you may see me in person. I intend if possible to return home by the way of Lebanon and stop for at least a few days. I spent this spring vacation in Lebanon and Stephentown. The vacation commenced on the 31 of March and lasted two weeks. I had a delightful time but regretted that I did not see you. This is the second time I have been at your home and you have not been there. I hope next time you will condescend to make your appearance. How many years has it been since we have met? Over five I think it must have been. How much I enjoyed that visit at your house - do you remember the horse back ride we took together, we went up toward an old saw mill?
I hope if your Chum brings this letter to you, he will do so this time with all due propriety and if he looks mysteriously at the hand writing of the directions you may inform him that we are very old friends. That is true is'nt it? And so I sign myself
Your friend
Hattie M Hubbard