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March 23 186[4] Dear Wife I have received two letters
from you since I have written to
you__ one dated 27 Feb and the other
dated 17th March which I
received day before yesterday evening__
I was very glad to hear that you and the children was all well__ I should have wrote to you before now++ But have not had the chance__ I have been at work on a detail__ clearing a place fore a garden fer the last two weeks__
I wrote in my last that I would send you some pens when I wrote again__
but I have not been able to buy them__ I
have no small change and I cannot buy any thing in Savanah
unless [I] have the right change__ you
must therefore make out the best you can until I can get them__ Capt Brooks has gone to town to day and has
carried all the large bills for the men that wants change to try to get them
off__ I sent $20 by him__ You stated that you had sent your money to
Eufaula to get Bonds__ you done right about it;
though I fear the land will not be worth much to you I am
sorry to hear that you could not buy any corn__
and sorry also that your prospect is so few per a [---] but perhaps it
is all for the best__ If you have not
had the cotton gined you had better get it gined if you can__
If not have it put in some place where it will keep dry and let it stay
until you need the money it will bring__
write to me whether John will have to go to the war or not__ and whether Dr Farrier
has gone or not__ we got the apples
Amanda sent Franklin__ I am glad you are
going to send me some meat__ If you had
it to spare__ It was best to send it by
Eufaula__ and [if] you have not sent it before
you get [this] [you] better have it expressed__
Lt Girly and my [self] has had a
friendly conversation about the [tales] that were told him but I have not H F Farewell [Transcribed by Stacy Bryant, June 2005] [Edited by Tina Bernath, June 2006] |