1903 autograph letter signed by college student Francis B. Cantwell, who would mostly like to know how his horse is doing.

Written from "My Room, May 11 1903," a letter from a young man at university to his younger brother back home. "How is mamma, is she well and happy and does she work too hard? Is the new man any good? Does he take good care of the horse? How is Tommy? Do you ride him much...?" Indeed, the majority of the letter concerns the horse, his welfare and material needs. He tells his brother, "take him up and go fishing to Bellmont or Chateaugay Lake. Is the blanket worn out? You had better take some of your money and get a new saddle blanket." He asks a run of questions ("Answer these questions well and fully or I will tan your hide,") but never quite gets around to asking Willie (his brother) how he's doing. He does offer to pay Willie to have his picture taken--with the horse. He also gives a brief report on recent sports team losses to Rutgers and Cornell ("everything gets beaten here"). Our writer, Francis B. Cantwell, would have been a student at Williams College at the time he penned thi