Hillsdale College Sept. 12
Miss Hadley
Dear Ettie,
I was so glad to receive another letter from you; and would have written long ago but have had scarcely a moments leisure since I received it. The week it reached me we were very busy preparing for a "Picnic" and had a house-full of company besides; and the next morning after the "Picnic" we went away a visiting and did not return home till the week before we started back to school; so you see it has been hurry, hurry ever since
