[No salutation, but the envelope indicates the recipient is Nellie Swift]Have you the small-pox or the cholera? Are you lost or strayed or stolen? Did you get that valuable money order and still more valuable letter from your devoted room-mate? Have you forgotten my address or that you promised me the key to all your - nay, our worldly possessions? Do you realize that tempus is fugiting right along? Have you considered and acted upon the matter of a carpet for 36D?
I leave these parts Monday, September 10 and would like the above all answered before that time if the lady can be so kind & condescending.
Yours to command
L. Fish Baker, Esq.217 Lake View Avenue
Jamestown
N.Y.
Friday, August 31, 1894.