Yours received this forenoon. No invitation is necessary from any other as I was commissioned by the Authorities to send the invitation and you have it.
I don't think of anything that would be distasteful to our people in the poem. I will meet you at the evening train Saturday. We will go out to May's Sunday.
transcription Paw Paw Aug 3rd 1869 Friend Will, Yours received this forenoon. No invitation is necessary from any other as I was commissioned by the Authorities to send the invitation and you have it. I don't think of anything that would be distasteful to our people in the poem. I will meet you at the evening train Saturday. We will go out to May's Sunday. Yours Truly Dell.