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Cazenovia Dec 1st 1844

Dear Brother

Somewhat to my own surprise and perhaps to yours, I have no my pen in hand for the first time to write you since I left home. This is owing to the fact that I have had but little to write and when the time came to write that little there had been each time since hte first letter some letter to answer. And even now I write without having received an answer to my last home. But yesterday when thinking it over I began to think that possibly this silence might be construed in to neglect wherefore I resolved to write you to day even though I might be able to write nothing more than that I was well that the vacation had commenced, that it was to continue two weeks from Wednesday the 27th of Nov. and I find that is pretty much all, I can tell you I might indeed tell you of fine times for hte last week or two, among the girls with whom I have allowed myself to mix a little flirtation with a pretty girl who has sat oposite to me at table for some weeks and who notwithstanding she is engaged to be married would cut here a wealthy suitor (who is a colledge graduate) and run away with me to the other end of the world I believe if I would only let her. There! I hear you mentally exclaim he has been to Cazenovia long enough he may as well leave first as last. But be not quite so fast in making up your mind. I will