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Blenheim February 19th 1864

Sunday night

This is Sunday night dear Nina, and I

have been down to Emanuel church today, but I feel

as if you would be expecting a letter tonight so I must

at last begin my letter so that I may finish it before

breakfast tomorrow. Well let me first tell you how I went

to church, in a buggy with Adj R.S. Morgan 5th Va

calvary, and I never laid eyes on him until last Friday

night, do you think I am clean gone crazy? Not quite, he

is from Washington City & well known to Dr. & Mrs. Hobson

who think a great deal of him. He is a very gentlemanly, [?]

[?] person, not handsome, but fine looking, and one of those

persons you feel as if you know directly, he said to me today, "I

can hardly believe I have only known you two days I fell

as if I had known you all my life." & I feel the same to him.

He has a very find buggy horse & we have planed various

drives, he has a months furlough, but and I expect most of

it will be spent here, but he is going away for a few days the

last of next week & days I may drive his horse as much as

I please while he is gone. Then next week I expect we shall

have Major Wolfe of Gen Pendleton's staff here, don't you

think I am in clover. Major Wolfe is from Martinsburg &

has red hair so I reckon he is a relation of Rebeccas. And as

Mr. [?] has proposed, well my lady how many inches taller

do you feel, I am not at all astonished & should not wonder if

you had several more letters of the same sort. I had a letter from

Mr. Morton a week ago, he said he had intended coming over

to see me and to bring me a Xmas present that week but his Brother William was very sick

with pneumonia & he could not leave, but would come as soon as

he could & would then explain to me about Miss Nina. Old

Mr. [Scotts?] marriage was a singular one was it not, & were

you not surprised to hear of Billy [Mc ?]. I have finished

[maryfoot common?] it is a very [?] little [story?] Mr. Morgan

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has given me "Flush times in Mississippi" to read now, but

I have not yet begun it. You ask who Mr. [K?] is, I know

not, except that he is Mr. [K?] and [immeasurably?] [wealthy?], is very much

on the Sir Charles Grandison order, and was at one time a

perfect [?], but now does not drink at all; I have never seen him

since the party at Mr. Michaux so he could not have been very

much struck. One thing is to be said in his favor he went into the

army as a private when the war first began & is there still.

I am invited over to Mr. Willis Hobsons tomorrow week to visit

the Powhatan troop and am going tho' I don't know what

sort of a [frolic?] it is to be, whether in the day or night, [Abner?]

Harris is coming up & I expect Fannie will too. I saw Fannie in

church today she is so sweet I wish you could see her. I am so glad

you have such an agreeable companion as Lizzie, you must

tell me of all the fronics you go to. Just think I weigh 106, &

I don't expect when I got over my sickness I weighed over

85, Dr H says he thinks I ought to be turned out of the church

for fattening so in Lent. What sort of white collars do you wear

I find I have white [?] but don't know how to make them.

I have never heard a word from [?] about the cotton, or

from Cousin Emily, nor from Mollie & Minnie Lloyd to whom I

wrotethe same day. I am afraid my letters are lost. I have

just finished a band for Sister like the one I made for you

have you scalloped yours. I am going to work now to make

my third chemise. I send you some more letters from Aunt

[?], Ma says when you read them send them to Minnie

Lloyd in Richmond, & when you write tell her I wrote to

her enclosed to Mollie three weeks ago. I also send you

back your envelops, the [?] things they [?] [?].

Well I have written all this tonight & its past 11 oclock

so I mist go to bed. Give my love to Lizzie. Oh! who is the

Capt; Stringfellow who sent you [Maryfoot Common?], is he the same

who brings in so many prisoners & is he Lizzie's brother. Good

night. Write soon to

your loving sister

Hattie L Powell