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&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;Dear Homer&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;    &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;I have so much to say to you + am so &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;excited withal that I fear I shall not be able to&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;express my self intelligibly at  all. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:line-through;"&gt;It is&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;We received your&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;letter of the 10&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;th&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt; just tonight after waiting a long, long&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;time for &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;some&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;word &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;from our soldier friends.  It is&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;only just two weeks since your last  in front of&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;Petersburg but it has been the longest fortnight&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;I ever saw. It seems more to look on all those long&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;days of waiting as if it must have been &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;two&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;months&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;I have not really believed any of the time but that&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;you were &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;alive&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt; + well but we could get no evidence&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;that such was the case au contraire knowing how&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;many fell in the struggle before Richmond, it &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;would seem probable that some of our friends&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;were among the member, + the uncertainty was&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;anything but comfortable.  I wonder if you imagined&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;when you penciled the letter we received tonight&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;what a load it would remove from our minds.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;Two weeks ago we wrote to 35 since these I have been &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;kept from writing 1&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;st&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt; by the thought that you might&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;be beyond the reach of letters, which drove all ideas&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;from my head + 2&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;nd&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt; by a foolish superstition but&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;one that I think you will understand that if we&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;wrote you would never read the letters, but if &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;we did not you would certainly know of it + remind&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;us of our neglect + your anger even did not seem &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;so very terrible to me then.  Was there ever before&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;a Two Weeks so full of great events? and notwith&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;standing all we have gained in this time at its&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;close I feel more like crying than laughing&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;[page 2] &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;for in the midst of our joy + triumph what a&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;bitter sorrow has fallen upon us. If the rebels&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;sought to distress the whole United States the most&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;possible they could not have hit upon more&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;successful plan than that of killing our&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;universally beloved + respected president&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;Abraham Lincoln, but in their fury of malicious&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;spite they seem to have forgotten that the deed&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;which has draped our nation in mourning, has&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;also driven fair Mary from her place on the thrown&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;+ that now they shall have &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;justice&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt; more than they&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;desire. I hear no on speak of the late assassination&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;without classing their remarks with the hope that&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;no more mercy will be shown to the leaders of this&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;awful rebellion. All events are Providential. Lincoln&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;has guided us safely through the war + was just&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;the man to do it but when it came time to punish&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;the instigators, it needed some glaring sin to show&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;the full extent of their deserts + a sterner hand&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;than his to deal their blows…Since I first heard&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;of the presidents death snatches of Tennysons funeral&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;poem for the Duke of W. have been singing in my&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;ears. I must read it soon to see if it is really&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;appropriate to the occasion taken as a whole.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;On the night we heard of Lees surrender the bell&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;was rung, houses illuminated, guns fired, rocks&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;blasted + every thing that would make a noise&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;was brought into requisition so that quite a racket&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;was kept up for several hours + I could think&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;of nothing but some passages in The Princess where&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;the wild trumpets blare + “iron clanging anvils&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;banged with hammers” are mentioned.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;It is past 10pm we have lots of work to do tomorrow&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;so must be saving our strength tonight. I shall&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;write again soon to tell you all about Darius + the other&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;cousins + the rest of the local news.  We are all well&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;+ very happy now in spite of all misfortunes.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;    &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;    &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;    &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;Luci&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</text>
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              <text>Warren Conn, Tuesday Eve&#13;
April 4th, 1865&#13;
&#13;
Dear Homer -&#13;
I am all of a glow to-&#13;
night for “Richmond is ours”&#13;
it seems as though the work must&#13;
be nearly done now - but in the&#13;
midst of our exultation over&#13;
the “glorious victory”, we cannot forget&#13;
that many brave boys have fallen&#13;
in the struggle - + we do not yet &#13;
know but that our friends are&#13;
among the number, your letter&#13;
(No. 36) came tonight announcing your&#13;
safety up to Thursday Eve - We were at&#13;
Mr. L. Taylors when the mail came in -&#13;
+ after I heard the news I expressed&#13;
my approbation of the state of&#13;
affairs pretty freely before I &#13;
recollected that the family was quite &#13;
quite coppery  in its proclivities.&#13;
&#13;
[Page 2]&#13;
I did not wish to irritate them in&#13;
their own house + should have held&#13;
my peace if I had thought in time&#13;
but it is too late to mend the matter&#13;
now + I was so glad - We have&#13;
received letters from you quite fre-&#13;
quently of late - but among them&#13;
all there has been no “No. 33” - There&#13;
has not seemed to be any break in &#13;
the story -+ I can hardly think any &#13;
link has been lost - but certainly&#13;
we have had no No. 33 - Three seems&#13;
to be an unlucky number with us.&#13;
Perhaps it will be as well to omit it.&#13;
I reckon you did this time - Didn’t&#13;
you? Letters are considered public prop-&#13;
erty now + I usually read those parts of&#13;
yours which I think will be most&#13;
interesting to them to a select company&#13;
behind the counter at the P.O. Mr Swift&#13;
is always eager to “know it all” - Last night&#13;
I went in when he was trying to put&#13;
up the mail - he was so excited over&#13;
&#13;
[Page 3]&#13;
the good news, that he made &#13;
but slow progress, would stand&#13;
with a paper in his hand + look&#13;
at all the boxes over + and over again in&#13;
search of the right one - finally he &#13;
gave up + said he did not know where&#13;
the boxes were _ but it was no matter&#13;
as he had got the Dailies up all&#13;
right - Misses Taylor brought the mail&#13;
+ he was about as bad off as Orlando,&#13;
I laughed to see them fly round -&#13;
After such a scene you can imagine&#13;
how chilly I felt when I walked back&#13;
to Mr. Taylors to tell the good tidings,&#13;
to see their solemn or indifferent&#13;
looks, I don’t see how any one can&#13;
help being glad of such success  - &#13;
We could hear quite a war like roar of&#13;
cannons last night but whether&#13;
it was in honor of State or National&#13;
Victories, couldn’t say - Possibly they&#13;
would economise powder + kill&#13;
the two birds with one shot--&#13;
&#13;
[Page 4]&#13;
Wednesday a.m.&#13;
Mother is having quite a wood piling&#13;
mania of late, has got the wood &#13;
room pretty well filled, by much&#13;
hard work - She has kept at the&#13;
business so steadily that it has&#13;
become a standing joke(?) with&#13;
Fannie + I to say when Mother is&#13;
inquired for that she is out&#13;
piling wood - She has been at it&#13;
this morning till she is very tired&#13;
+ cannot write - We cannot manage&#13;
her at all - She is “dreadfully set in her way”&#13;
Last week we had a letter from Myra.&#13;
She wrote but a few words, said leg&#13;
was no better - + sent Charlie + &#13;
Winnies picture carte. As a work&#13;
of art it is like all western pictures&#13;
I have ever seen, a miserable failure&#13;
but the children are nice - Charlie&#13;
is as handsome as - well for the &#13;
prettiest of our family - His features&#13;
are delicate as girls. Winnie looks&#13;
just like Kit - Cy says the boys&#13;
have frequent battles in which Winnie&#13;
invariably comes out conqueror +&#13;
I should judge he would by&#13;
his looks - If you would like to&#13;
see them we will send them &#13;
to you - Charrie cannot look&#13;
at them without laughing till&#13;
she is decidedly red in the face&#13;
My pen is awful - You know I &#13;
can write better sometimes - Lucy&#13;
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              <text>Warren Conn. Sunday&#13;
July 2nd 1863&#13;
&#13;
Dear Homer&#13;
If you saw last Tuesdays&#13;
Tribune you will not wonder that we&#13;
have not written to you since then&#13;
When we read that the 2nd Conn Vol.&#13;
Heavy Art. were mustered out of U.S. &#13;
service &amp; started for home yesterday “ie.&#13;
Monday, June 26 - I had no more doubt&#13;
that you would be home within a week &#13;
than I have now that you are not &#13;
here - I never will believe a news-&#13;
paper report again. Our Daily stopped&#13;
coming the next day after it perpetrated&#13;
that fattest, blackest lie of the season&#13;
and I for one was glad of it for&#13;
such a falsifying journal is a&#13;
nuisance in the family + “a &#13;
disgrace to any people” -&#13;
All preparations for The Fourth were&#13;
postponed till the last moment,&#13;
waiting for the soldiers to come home&#13;
+ take part in planning - + I guess&#13;
finally nothing will be done, but a&#13;
few who feel like celebrating will go&#13;
to Litchfield where great things are to&#13;
&#13;
[Page 2]&#13;
be done- Charlie Marsh came here&#13;
last Thursday + invited me to go with&#13;
him - You have heard that “by patience&#13;
+ perseverance the rat ate through&#13;
the cable” - I was not engaged +&#13;
accepted Charlies invitation with&#13;
a great laugh in my sleeve to think&#13;
how persistent he had been - + I &#13;
presume his sleeve was also full &#13;
thinking how he had got me to do &#13;
what he knew I did not wish to -&#13;
If you mean to boat ride or &#13;
romance around a great deal&#13;
in any way with Aggie you &#13;
will have to hurry home + then&#13;
work with energy + skill for &#13;
a certain naval officer in our&#13;
midst seems to be making the&#13;
most  of his “Leave” by absorbing&#13;
the time + attention of that&#13;
lovely miss - They are as chipper as &#13;
two kittens - It seems to be quite &#13;
a new phase in Augustine's&#13;
character  which we see developing &#13;
from day to day - so I thought&#13;
I would mention it -&#13;
Thomas Carter &amp; family - including&#13;
Sarah Sturtevant arrived in town &#13;
last Thursday, while we girls were&#13;
&#13;
[Page 3]&#13;
visiting with Mrs Tallmadge - by &#13;
invitation - Sarah is a good girl&#13;
+ I am glad to see her back again, &#13;
her three years which she was to&#13;
spend West has not been quite&#13;
so long as yours in l’armi – for&#13;
she left Conn. a month after you &#13;
+ returns, I fear, as much as a month &#13;
first - Miss Pattie Van Vleck (nee Carter)&#13;
is also in town, + Silia&#13;
Charrie, Flora &amp; Miss Coleman are&#13;
expected tonight - So you see you&#13;
soldiers are about the last of our &#13;
company to come in - If you do&#13;
not make your appearance &#13;
pretty soon you will be reported&#13;
“Absent without leave” Eunice&#13;
will not be here till the first&#13;
of August - We have, of late &#13;
been cultivating the acquaintance&#13;
of Miss Hungerford - or Phebe&#13;
as she wishes us to call her - &#13;
For once I think my first impres-&#13;
sion was correct she is all my fancy&#13;
painted her but I take to my self&#13;
no great credit for penetration &#13;
for she is so open hearted that&#13;
any one could see at this first &#13;
interaction, just what she was –&#13;
in quality - I mean not quantity&#13;
&#13;
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as you can judge of a piece of &#13;
goods by the sample which hangs&#13;
out of the paper - I like her &#13;
better every time I see her. The&#13;
deeper I go the richer the mine&#13;
but always the same metal I&#13;
expect to find - no veins of &#13;
an inferior quality - yet -&#13;
I don’t think you would like&#13;
her at all, she is not your style&#13;
Yes you would too - you could &#13;
not help liking her she is so good&#13;
but you would as soon think &#13;
flirting with a psalm book&#13;
not that she is troubled with&#13;
Ed. Stones disease - far from&#13;
it - She is fat + jolly but she&#13;
has the soundest common &#13;
sense I ever saw displayed in&#13;
one of her age - 23 years - There,&#13;
now come home + tell me&#13;
I have gone into ecstacies over&#13;
a very common place school marm&#13;
It is Monday morning now &#13;
as cool + calm + bright as the day&#13;
Herbert wrote of long ago - I&#13;
am writing with my sleeves&#13;
rolled up - ready at a moments&#13;
warning to plunge into the&#13;
wash tub &amp; scrub away like&#13;
any think - We found a soldiers blanket&#13;
under your bed after you left home + we&#13;
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              <text>Warren Conn. Sunday&#13;
July 2nd 1863&#13;
&#13;
Dear Homer&#13;
If you saw last Tuesdays&#13;
Tribunal you will not wonder that we&#13;
have not written to you since then&#13;
When we read that the 2nd Conn Vol.&#13;
Heavy Art. Were mustered out of U.S. &#13;
service &amp; started for home yesterday “ie.&#13;
Monday, June 26 – I had no more doubt&#13;
that you would be home within a week &#13;
than I have now that you are not &#13;
here – I never will believe a news-&#13;
paper report again. Our Daily stopped&#13;
coming the next day after it perpetrated&#13;
that fattest, blackest lie of the season&#13;
and I for one was glad of it for&#13;
such a falsifying journal is a&#13;
nuissance in the family + “a &#13;
disgrace to any people”.&#13;
All preparations for The Fourth were&#13;
postponed till the last moment,&#13;
waiting for the soldiers to come home&#13;
+ take part in planning - + I guess&#13;
finally nothing will be done, but a&#13;
few who feel like celebrating will go&#13;
to Litchfield where great things are to&#13;
[page 2]&#13;
be done. Charlie Marsh came here&#13;
last Thursday + invited me to go with&#13;
him. You have heard that “by patience&#13;
+ perseverance the rat ate through&#13;
the cable”. I was not engaged +&#13;
accepted Charlies invitation with&#13;
a great laugh in my sleeve to think&#13;
how persistent he had been. + I &#13;
presume his sleeve was also full &#13;
thinking how he had got me to do &#13;
what he knew I did not wish to.&#13;
If you mean to boat ride or &#13;
romance around a great deal&#13;
in any way with Aggie you &#13;
will have to hurry home + then&#13;
work with energy + skill for &#13;
a certain naval officer in our&#13;
midst seems to be making the&#13;
most of his “Leave” by absorbing&#13;
the time + attention of that&#13;
lovely miss – They are as chipper as &#13;
two kittens. It seems to be quite &#13;
a new phase in Augustines&#13;
character which we see developing &#13;
from day to day – so I thought&#13;
I would mention it.&#13;
Thomas Carter &amp; family, including&#13;
Sarah Sturtevant arrived in town &#13;
last Thursday, while we girls were&#13;
[page 3]&#13;
visiting with Mrs Tallmadge, by &#13;
Invitation. Sarah is a good girl&#13;
+ I am glad to see her back again, &#13;
her three years which she was to&#13;
spend West has not been quite&#13;
so long as yours in l’armi, for&#13;
she left Conn. a month after you &#13;
+ returns, I fear, as much as a month &#13;
first – Miss Pattie Van Vleck (né Carter)&#13;
is also in town, + Silia&#13;
Charrie, Flora &amp; Miss Coleman are&#13;
expected tonight. So you see you&#13;
soldiers are about the last of our &#13;
company to come in. If you do&#13;
not make your appearance &#13;
pretty soon you will be reported&#13;
“Absent without leave”. Eunice&#13;
will not be here till the first&#13;
of August. We have, of late &#13;
been cultivating the acquaintance&#13;
of Miss Hungerford, or Phebe&#13;
as she wishes us to call her, &#13;
For once I think my first impres-&#13;
sion was correct she is all my fancy&#13;
painted her but I take to my self&#13;
no great credit for penetration &#13;
for she is so open hearted that&#13;
any one could see at this first &#13;
interaction, just what she was –&#13;
in quality- I mean not quantity&#13;
[page 4]&#13;
as you can judge of a piece of &#13;
goods by the sample which hangs&#13;
out of the paper, I like her &#13;
better every time I see her. The&#13;
deeper I go the richer the mine&#13;
but always the same metal I&#13;
expect to find- no veins of &#13;
an inferior quality - yet - - -&#13;
I don’t think you would like&#13;
her at all, she is not your style&#13;
Yes you would too, you could &#13;
not help liking her she is so good&#13;
but you would as soon think &#13;
flirting with a psalm book&#13;
not that she is troubled with&#13;
Ed. Stones disease, far from&#13;
It. She is fat + jolly but she&#13;
has the soundest common &#13;
sense I ever saw displayed in&#13;
one of her age, 23 years. There,&#13;
now come home + tell me&#13;
I have gone into ecstacies over&#13;
a very common place school marm&#13;
It is Monday morning now &#13;
as cool + calm + bright as the day&#13;
Herbert wrote of long ago. I&#13;
am writing with my sleeves&#13;
rolled up, ready at a moments&#13;
warning to plunge into the&#13;
wash tub &amp; scrub away like&#13;
any think. We found a soldiers blanket&#13;
under your bed after you left home + we&#13;
washed it up. Was it yours? Leucie [Lucy]</text>
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              <text>(at top upside down) Love from Mother&#13;
&#13;
Warren Conn&#13;
Sunday eve May 29th, ’64 &#13;
&#13;
Dear  Gub,&#13;
Your letter of the 24th just&#13;
arrived last Friday and as any&#13;
news from the 2nd CVHA is&#13;
in great demand just now &#13;
I read some portions of it&#13;
- omitting the romantic - aloud -&#13;
At the P.O. - to an admiring&#13;
audience - while a brisk shower&#13;
was transpiring without. We&#13;
can get no information from&#13;
the main body of the 2nd since&#13;
their arrival at Fredericksburg -&#13;
Mrs. E. Shepherd hears from her&#13;
Fred frequently but he was left&#13;
behind at Belle Plains, on business&#13;
similar to yours - I should presume&#13;
he has sent Em. Packages and&#13;
bundles from there to the tune&#13;
&#13;
[Page 2]&#13;
of an $8.00 express bill—I wonder&#13;
if Miner Austin, H. A. etc. have over-&#13;
taken Grant yet. If so we shall&#13;
hear exciting news before the close&#13;
of the week no doubt - I do not&#13;
wonder that you wish to be with&#13;
them but we are about and well&#13;
satisfied with the present &#13;
arrangement of things -&#13;
Fannie started for North East last&#13;
Monday - since that time Ma and I&#13;
have been sole occupants of our&#13;
house - company excepted - and&#13;
nothing has been heard from Fannie.&#13;
She has gone out into the world&#13;
to seek her fortune, and is probably&#13;
too much engaged in her search to&#13;
stop to write home - though I&#13;
should think she would want to &#13;
use her new pen occasionally -&#13;
By the way weren’t we surprised when&#13;
we discovered Austins beautiful gifts&#13;
&#13;
[Page 3]&#13;
where we expected to find bundles&#13;
of old letters written by ourselves -&#13;
with possibly a book or two - and&#13;
we hoped also for a letter from you &#13;
and then, sure enough, it was, good&#13;
as new, though bearing a somewhat -&#13;
ancient date - We are certainly&#13;
very much obliged to you for &#13;
the share you had in the trouble&#13;
of shipping that package, you even&#13;
intimate that with some such&#13;
aid as you gave we should never&#13;
have received it. Many thanks to&#13;
you - For the rest, I will soon write&#13;
to the Madisters, and not burden you &#13;
with messages to him - I do not&#13;
know how readily letters reach the &#13;
Rgt. now. When you write again &#13;
please tell how to direct them.&#13;
Aunt Miranda wishes you to open&#13;
the bundle she sent to Miner  by&#13;
Mr. Camp, take out and appropriate&#13;
&#13;
[Page 4]&#13;
the maple sugar concealed within&#13;
then send back the shirts as Miner&#13;
will not want them to carry&#13;
around with him. I allow your &#13;
arbutus letters to be romantic - &#13;
highly so - I suppose you could &#13;
not even guess who so kindly &#13;
remembers our wandering Luke, if so&#13;
probably would not mention it &#13;
aloud - O’no - assumed hand writing&#13;
without doubt - no means of ascertaining&#13;
definitely the fair (dame?) - We have&#13;
not received any “Chronicle” lately&#13;
so conclude that you reprinted&#13;
and did not send it or else&#13;
it has been lost on the road -&#13;
Have I acknowledged the receipt&#13;
of the Co. D Memorial? I forget - Well&#13;
it came all safe with your name&#13;
picked up among the Lts. as&#13;
large as life - It looks well on &#13;
paper certainly - I do kindah &#13;
wonder how you would look with&#13;
decked out with all your new fixin’s&#13;
Well, if you live and prosper I shall&#13;
hope to see you strut into our kitchen&#13;
so gayly bedight in about 16 months—&#13;
Capt. Wadhams sword came into our P.O.- + I&#13;
saw it the other night . Frid. I sent it up to Mr.&#13;
(Stones?) – don’t see why he should - Lucy&#13;
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