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Rome October 24th, 1862

Friday Morning

My Darling Mother,

Your very welcome letter was received

by the last mail, and very glad indeed I was to get

it. But I am sorry to find you miss us all so much

and are so lonely at Uncle Gordons, I reckon it is even

more monotonous than it is every where in the coun

try in the winter. I go through the same [?] every

day too. Get up at six, dress, read, and knit or write a

part of a letter as I am doing this morning, breakfast

at eight and school at half past until twelve. Then I

knit until dinner, sometimes in my own room, some

times I go down, then dinner at no particular time

and then school for one and a half or two hours then

I sit in my own room and read any history and knit

until the sun goes down and then with Maria take a

walk. After that we all knit until about nine and then to

bed. We have had no visitor since I came back.