Excellent 3-page plus margins letter from S. J. Humphrey to her brother John. SJ has a writes colorful prose starting with "I take my (quill) pen in hand (I generally write with the naked steel) to inform you that I am not very well but hope you employ first rate health.  You are indebted for this letter to a sore throat which confines me to my boarding house today & perhaps longer." Nice, easy to read letter for as SJ says: "a sensible female correspondent is one of the best things a young man can get." Paper is in very good condition. Postmark is very light, but readable.