Mary Leslie Newton writes a short letter describing a guest of the family's, a "campmeeting," and the weather.
Mary Leslie Newton provides meta-commentary on the letter itself and other letters she is writing, social calls, and changes at the church. She requests that her father pay them a visit. The letter concludes with a small handwritten note when she ran out of space for the typewriter.
In this very brief letter, Mary Leslie Newton offers meta-commentary on the letter, bemoans the lack of news, describes a visit from their cousins, writes a sentence or so in German. A postscript in which she refers to herself as "Dorothy Q" indicates that she does not want any additional music…
Mary Leslie Newton writes to her father about a variety of social calls, illnesses, her grandmother's recent fall, and other local news.
Mary Leslie Newton recounts her struggle to write the letter at all, provides an update on Epworth League and Halley's vision, and discusses her Sunday school project. A series of handwritten postscripts note, among other events, an explosion heard overnight when a wheel mill "went off." She notes…
The letter recounts school events, including a series of small fires, prayer meeting, "squaws," a lecture, their cats, the appearance of a beggar, the arrival of a box from the Century Company, and the weather.