Kansas City ,Mo.,
Oct.25th.
Miss Nannie Bently
Forest Green, Mo.,
Dear Nan,--Your letter was received several weeks ogo and I have thought time and again thatn I would write but there was always something to prevent ,or I was too lazy.I have just arrived at school and am going to write the first thing I do for fear that some-thing will happen so I will not get to write again.I do not know where to begin ,but guess the first thing I will tell is that Lute, has been to see me ,but it doesn't seem like a visit she was with me only two nights ;I was so mad because she did not stay longer ,but she has promised to come back real soon,she is the same old sweet Lute as of old ;she has not change one particle .I was so glad to see her and would have given any thing if you had only been with her .You do not know how bad I want to see you .I think you might come and see me for I know you could if you want to .Did Mary visit you ? and is she married yet ?She told Lute that she was to be married this month ,but we did not believe it ;she has told so many big ones .I went to see the President and wife while they were here and oh me ,I thought I had seen crowds be fore ,but I was mistaken I never had until that day, and I never want to be in one again, for it was simply awful .In saw them though His wife is much prettier than her picture , at least that is what I think abuot [sic] ,the pictures they are selling look about as much like her as they do me ,so you may know they are good.
I attended the Exposition last week .one day ,it is very good , much better than I expected , I want to go one evening this week to hhear Gillmore's Band ,I am so very much oblig-oh dear there I have made a mistake . Prof.Dickson came around and I got excited, Ith thought that he would going to look at my letter as he was examining the girls work .Wouldn't it have been funny if he had?Iwould have had a fit if he had .Ilike Short-Hand ever so much ,but I have to miss so much that I t [sic] get behind the rest ,I feel like giving up sometimes and not trying to learn ,if the weather is bad I cannot come ,and one day makes so much difference I almost forget how to write .I enjoy coming in the Dummy ,if I didn't have to almost break my neck to get ready every morning ,I have to start so early in order to get here in time .Nan I will have to stop for Prof. keeps coming around and I am in perfect misery.Write real soon and do not wait so long as I have done .Much love to Miss Lida and ever so much for your-self.
Yours truly,
Mattie Truman