Cedar Valley, May the 11, 1848

(Ann J. Clement Hunt)

My Dear Ma,

I received your letter a few days since, which afforded me much pleasure, to hear from you all. I was glad to hear you was so well pleased with the shows. I wrote to you that the examination would be on the 8 of June but Mr. Moseley has changed it to the 7 and 8 and want you to come a day before the time if it is in your power, and I want you to send me some shoes. You must make my dresses gethered before and behind and make two pair of sleeves to my swiss, short ones for the concert and long for the day and you must get me a white wreath for the concert, and send my bonnet and parasol as soon as possible and make my dresses low in the neck and long waisted and you must bring me a yard and a half of white satin ribbon about as wide as your two fingers and give my love to Mr. McQuires family. Mildred and Atha are coming home with me in vacation so they say. Aunt E. has gone to Rome, to get music for us to learn for the examination, and will not return until tomorrow or next day. Good bye. Love to all of the negroes and a kiss for all the little negroes children.

Your daughter,

E. A. Hunt

(Elizabeth Hunt)