I must confess to a little disappointment in not seeing you at the Camp ground, and I also feel that you too will be disappointed and this gives me more pain than all else, O my dear Student,— if we only could As Written: couuld be but just to each other how much misery might be avoided I ask only for others to do by me as I would do by themMatt 7:12 Therefore all things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them: for this is the law and the prophets. Luke 6:31 And as ye would that men should do to you, do ye also to them likewise. and this would make me very happy I know that you are willing to do this, but how is it with others? well I have a sad experience in this line, so I guess I will not name it

Yesterday eve to my great surprise Richard informed me that he should not go to HamiltonEditorial Note: Hamilton, Massachusetts as he had promised me he should; had I known this before you left I would have taken the directions so as to have gone alone but you know when you named it to me I told you he knew how to go and no matter about my knowing it, now I could not find you alone He gave me no reasons for his not going and so I had nothing to say about it I would send this to you where you now are if I thought you would be likely to get it but I dare not trust to it so after Tomorrow As Written: Tommorrow morning you will be perhaps blaming me for not fulfilling my word and I shall be thinking of you and wishing I could go to you, but such is my experience. Do not let Richard know that I care a snap. I know that he has done this because I objected to his going into certain company this latter part of the week. Now Frances please be true to me and say not a word of this except to tell Mrs. R that I could not go alone and Richard concluded not to go. I am going away for a little time perhaps before you return