Gardensville va pril[?] 29th 1870
Dear Miss Chase I take my pin in hand To Write your a few Lines to leat you know that I am Well and I hope that youre are well too I got thaes to letters fom you I am Doing well I am in the freedmen Book and in Long Divison in Arthmetic
I was very sorry When your Went a Way I Wish that your Was here know the [three illegible words] Head Im plese to Writ [illegible word]