Scope and Contents Wonders if she is angry with him and hesitates to call her "my own little girley" since she only addressed him as "my dear friend" and closed with "your true friend" in the last letter; wonders why she is so formal unless she doubts his sincerity; is pleased with the compliments her friends have paid him; Dr. Smith wonders when he [JFB] will visit Enfield again; had little time to entertain Mr. Smith as he was too busy; thought many times how i needed you to preform this service"; the children send their love to Miss Mag; Dick is very anxious to go to Lexington, [VA] and attend the Virginia Military Institue; would like to visit about the first of August; writes a love poem expressing his sorrow at her abscence from him; thinks she will think him foolish for writing such a poem; the weather has been "as hot as old so I can make it"; is warned of the necessity of closing [the letter] as it is nearly train time. 7pp. ALS