Dresden, August 1, 1897
My dear Miss Underhill,
I was glad to see from the postmark on the letter yesterday that you were really in Skaneateles where I hope you are riding on your wheel, making plum marmalade, tramping in the woods, going to afternoon teas, and doing no one of the things you usually do, but many things that you ought to do (in Vacation!) You have stayed too long in the college- it doesn't pay physically, financially, or spiritually.
Various communications from you were waiting for me at the post office Wednesday morning, but I fear I have been of late in
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