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I suppose typhoid is every where. I hope you and Pa will not | I suppose typhoid is every where. I hope you and Pa will not |
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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 [?] we all knit until about nine and then to
bed. We have had no visitor since I came back except Mr.
Bolling (he is here every day always), Col Edmunds, and Mr.
Goode, an old Uncle of Mr. Bolling who got here last
night after [?], and Mr. Bird, an Episcopal minister
who staid here one night during the convocation. I am
teaching in my own school room now. It got so cold in the
school room, so I sit up there a great deal, but I am
not lonesome, though I want to see you all very much
and think a great deal of you and our darlings in
heaven. I knew you would miss our darling Charley
more at Uncle Gordons, but he was so happy there I
should think the recollection would be pleasant. I can
see his bright face now so placidly in his romps with
the boys. Our darlings, they will never know sin, war
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grief nor pain again, and before very long we shall all
meet them again I trust. I had a letter from Cousin
Sarah, soon after I got back and sent it on to Sister
as it was to us both, and asked her to send it on to you
which I suppose she has done, but she said nothing about
our things except that she had been round that day
to see about them and could have taken a cry over them, for
between the yankees and the servants, they had suffered great
ly. I did take a cold coming [here?] that night, and
thought at first it was going to be very bad, but in three
or for days it left me entirely. I have not gotten a dress yet
Mary Wilson is going to Petersburg on Monday and I thought
I would give her 25 dol and get her to get me the best dress
for that or less than that, that she could, for I shall be obliged
to have some sort. I am not knitting myself to death as you sug
gest but am nearly done my last stocking, then I shall begin
on the soldiers. Willie says "Miss Hattie's hands go like they
were saying all the time. I ain't got time to stop, I ain't
got time to stop." But it does not give me a pain in my
shoulder. Tell Pa I have not played a game of chess since
I played with him. Col T has been sick in bed for a week with
he thinks slight typhoid fever, only came out yesterday, looks
wretchedly, has no appetite, and seems very week. Mrs. T has
had irricipilous (I can't find it in the dictionary, and don't
know how to spell it) in her throat, but it is nearly [?] now.
I suppose typhoid is every where. I hope you and Pa will not
get it. I am taking my bitters every day and like them and I think
they do me good decidedly. My first bottle is nearly gone, but
I did not take near all of it myself, Mary Wilson took such
a fancy to it that she took so much of it three or four times
a day! I had to put it in my trunk. I am glad Cousin S[arah]
has sold the piano, and I think it would be best to sell the
heavy furniture, it gets so injured. Col and Mrs. T are very anxious
that you and Pa should come down here rent Prestwood, and
open a school here another year. They think the school would
be certain to succeed. There was a large [flourishing?] school here
for many years, broken up about three years ago by the la
dy's marrying, she was a widow. Give much love and a kiss to my
[writing perpendicular on page 1]
darling Father, love to
Aunt Fanny, Uncle Gor
don, Kate, Chappy [Powell?]
and the boys. I have
had one letter from
Sister since I have
been here but none
from Nina though
I have written to
her. I don't think
your cap is too fine
you must wear it
because I made
it. Do write as often
as you can dear
Mother to your
loving daughter
Hattie
All the family are
going to Mr. [?] Edwards
to spend the day tomor
row, so I am going
to spend it with Mrs.
Baird