It is this: father's ship, Wildfire, has sailed from New York for Savannah, and before he left, father said for me to write and tell you that he couldn't think of letting me go to Florida next winter unless you came here and spent this summer with me.
"The Wildfire will leave Savannah for New York again about the 15th of May, and father wants you to meet him there and come home with him.

His sister, Aunt Emily Coburn, has gone with him for the sake of the voyage, and she will take care of you.
"Oh, do come! Won't it be splendid?
Father is coming home from New York, so he can bring you all the way.

I am sure your mother will let you come when she knows how nicely everything is planned.
"I have got lots and lots to tell you, but can't think of anything else now but your coming.
"What an awful time poor Mark has had.

I don't see how he ever lived through it.

I think Frank March must be splendid.