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My dear Mother,
I feel very much ashamed to have delayed writing until you may leave Patterson before this reaches you, but I haven't had a spare minute until now, although yesterday I did manage to write a few lines in lead/ink. My shopping was a success and very pleasant all through. I hope you will like Lizzie dress. I haven't much hope that she will for it does look gingham though very fashionable and the only thing in the market for 40 cents.
My hat is very pretty and to please you I got some pale pink silk to mix with the black silk scarf, the crimson one was only 5-9 cents
My trunk came yesterday, preserve and pickle juice unbroken though the latter had slipped from it's wrappings, and was at the very bottom. The cake too travelled to the opposite end of the trunk and presented rather a flattened appearance, but it tastes just as good and delightful. The girls who pitched right in. Miss Grace Luna Louie of Phila. is here to give three lecture the first
I wish you could stay until Friday you go away so seldom.
Give love to Uncle and the girls and to Cousin [?]
I don't think it would pay to go to New York though I should love to see them again and wish them "bon voyage" (is that right?)
Tell Mame I expect her to be my foreign correspondent.
Your loving daughter,
May E. Gaston