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.
In an unusually short letter, Mary Leslie Newton comments on the lack of news, her frustration with the typewriter, and a visit from her grandmother.