late summer 1880

Dear Mattie -

"Sultans" in Tippets is rather a perversion of Hemispheres, but then we are such a vivacious Climate - The Shah in Mittens will doubtless ensue - I bring you my first Jasmin, minute and alone, but to me incomparably precious -

"Several" is a Mob, but a "two or three in my name" a confiding multitude -

Lovingly,
Emily -