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Wmsburg Oct 31st/61
[This is written upside down, across the front page:
I dont know the price of the articles
sent for, but will send the money
when the bill comes]
My Dear Cousin,
Will you if per-
fectly convenient, get me four
yards of the carpeting called [Bocken?],
a mould from the [tinners?] for
moulding candles, & $1 worth of
Potash for making soap, as soap
& candles are very hard to get
down here. I am going to make
both. I think the mould for candles
& the Potash might be packed
up in the carpet, & let the mer-
chant send it, if he will I will
enclose the [direction.]
With the enclosed $1 you would
dear Cousin, do me a great fa-
vour, if you would buy a
bottle of cologne & accept it as a
present from me. I wish to be
held in sweet remembrance by
you all, but my letters must
be very alarming, & unwelcome
for they are always to ask
some favor of some of you.
How did Cousin Eliza know
that I wanted [Mignionette?] [?]
I send every fall to Godey's
"Lady's Book" for them & was la-
menting that I could not get
them this year, when the
little package of seed arrived.
Tell Sally Gary gave me the
welcome information that she
(Sally) was thinking of spending
Xmas with me, tell her, to be sure
& come & bring some of you with
her. I wish Davy would pay us
a visit. We think with great plea
sure of his sojourn with us.
The churches are all oc
cupied as hospitals so our ministers
Methodist, Baptist & Episcopalian
have to preach in the Chapel at
the Asylum. There are seven
hundred & fifty sick soldiers in
town so that we are kept very
busy sending articles of food [remit?]
able for the sick to them. [Arena]
takes them something every day.
[Lettie?] Semple, Mr. Tyler's daughter
lives in the College hospital,
& has charge of all the churches
& makes an excellent nurse &
superintendant.
The Zouave & Louisaanna [sic]
Regiment gave a brilliant
ball at their camp. One mile
from town, & it being damp
with no floor, the next one they
gave was at Colonel Munford's
(Tazewell Hall). They adorned the house
with flags, evergreens &c & speak
of having a series of them during
the winter.
You would be surprised
to see how strangely Williams
burg looks now, the streets are
so much crowded. So many hundreds
being added to the population.
We have lately had a charming
visit from our Friends Mrs Mil-
lington from Tennessee. They have
lost all their property it being
in [Phila?] & confiscated.
We have had since the war
commenced, 17 sick soldiers
staying with us, & 4 had typhoid
fever, & all got well, for which
we feel thankful. One from Georgia
staid with us six weeks & I did not
see him, until the morning he left. They
had an excellent nurse from the
camp so I did not have any trouble.
It is so dark I can write no more.
Best love to Aunt [S?] & Cousin E.
Yr loving Cousin
Sally Maria Galt