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+ | about it in her letters to me. I ham so | ||
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+ | glad Father will not be out in that | ||
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+ | office any more. I hope you all will | ||
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+ | have a pleasant Xmas, but I am afraid | ||
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+ | poor Nina will be very lonely when you | ||
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+ | are gone. She will have gotten a good | ||
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+ | start tho on the winter, for the year | ||
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+ | always seems to me half gone by the | ||
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+ | first of January. I hope you will | ||
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+ | have good weather for your journey | ||
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+ | and shall feel anxious until it is | ||
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+ | over. I am so sorry to hear Nina is | ||
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+ | losing her hair, but if I were her | ||
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+ | I should certainly have it shaved af- | ||
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+ | ter Xmas unless she makes some | ||
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+ | acquaintance at that time who she | ||
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+ | thinks will be apt to see her | ||
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+ | very often, for short hair is very becom- | ||
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+ | ing to her, and she need not visit in | ||
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+ | Richmond for the next three months | ||
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+ | and by that time it would be long | ||
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+ | enough to be becoming, and I don't think | ||
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+ | any think else will restore it. She can | ||
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+ | make a flannel cap of a round piece | ||
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+ | and then a black silk cap in the same way | ||
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+ | and then wear a net over that and a bow on | ||
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+ | top as Minnie Lloyd does and the inside | ||
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+ | caps will fill up the net and it will not | ||
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+ | [Page 3] | ||
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+ | look very badly I don't think, but if I | ||
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+ | had it done I would have it done | ||
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+ | directly after Xmas and have it shaved | ||
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+ | backwards three times in the first | ||
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+ | week, and then let it grow. Please tell | ||
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+ | Nina that a white girl who has been | ||
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+ | sewing for Mrs. H goes to Richmond on | ||
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+ | Tuesday next and in a bundle going | ||
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+ | to Mrs. Stewart I send a little box | ||
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+ | containing a Xmas gift for her that | ||
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+ | she must wear this Xmas for my sake | ||
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+ | I hope it will be becoming to her and that | ||
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+ | she will think it pretty. I did not read | ||
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+ | the pieces you spoke of in the Sentinel, I | ||
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+ | am very sorry I did not see them, but have | ||
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+ | been so busy getting through some jobs | ||
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+ | before Xmas that I have not read any | ||
+ | |||
+ | thing beyond the news. Oh has not poor | ||
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+ | Loudon suffered. I should not be surpri- | ||
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+ | sed to hear at any time that both Lees- | ||
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+ | burg and Winchester had been burned to | ||
+ | |||
+ | the ground, what suffering there must | ||
+ | |||
+ | be in all that country this winter, and | ||
+ | |||
+ | will you ever be thankful enough that | ||
+ | |||
+ | we came away. Just think of Father being | ||
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+ | in a Yankee prison and you within | ||
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+ | [bounds?]. And so Mr. [Andrews?] is going to be | ||
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+ | [Page 4] | ||
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+ | married again and to a yankee | ||
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+ | too, I think Mrs. [Boliter?] is more cra- | ||
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+ | zy than he is, but poor Lila, it must | ||
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+ | be a hard trial to her. I had a long | ||
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+ | letter from Mary Chinchester the other | ||
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+ | day, dated Nov 28th, she seems to be get- | ||
+ | |||
+ | ting along pretty well, but says she keeps | ||
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+ | her [best?] clothes up the chimney, and that | ||
+ | |||
+ | half her time is occupied in trying to find hid- | ||
+ | |||
+ | ing places for her things. She said she | ||
+ | |||
+ | had been to Grandma's that morning | ||
+ | |||
+ | and that it really was a comfort to go | ||
+ | |||
+ | there they all looked and seemed so comforta- | ||
+ | |||
+ | ble and snug. Aunt Jane was so bright and | ||
+ | |||
+ | agreeable and Cattie so sweet she loved to go | ||
+ | |||
+ | there. She did not mention Aunt Mary's | ||
+ | |||
+ | family at all. Said all were well at [?] | ||
+ | |||
+ | [?] [?], but were intensely uneasy | ||
+ | |||
+ | about [?] having heard that she was | ||
+ | |||
+ | extremely ill. She said her letter would | ||
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+ | come out by [?] Williams, Ron Bentley, | ||
+ | |||
+ | or Kate [?] (Gray) and begs me to | ||
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+ | write, can you tell me how I can get | ||
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+ | a letter to her. I was indeed sorry on | ||
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+ | dear Aunt [?] account to hear | ||
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+ | of Dr. [?] death. I know it is a terri- | ||
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+ | ble blow to her and I am afraid they will | ||
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+ | suffer, but I can't help feeling as if it was | ||
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+ | [Page 1 - sideways across the page] | ||
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+ | best for now she can come to the south and be one of | ||
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+ | the family again and that she never could have | ||
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+ | been while he lived, at least I know I never could | ||
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+ | have felt towards her as I did to other members | ||
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+ | of the family and I reckon the others feel so too, and she | ||
+ | |||
+ | would have been so hurt to find it so, if she were | ||
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+ | [ever] south. I can't help feeling a kind of relief to | ||
+ | |||
+ | think I never will have to see [her?]. I should think | ||
+ | |||
+ | she would come on to Alexandria and take Grand- | ||
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+ | ma's house there and then I should think that Uncle | ||
+ | |||
+ | Richard and Dr. [?]'s brother would not let her | ||
+ | |||
+ | suffer. What work is it Minnie is trying to get, I should | ||
+ | |||
+ | not think examining accounts would suit her | ||
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+ | [Page 2 - sideways across the page] | ||
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+ | at all. How is dear Aunt Bee now you did not men- | ||
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+ | tion her at all in your last letter. Give my love to her | ||
+ | |||
+ | and Uncle [Bouer?]. Love to all at Franks. Mrs. D and Mrs. | ||
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+ | Willie Hobson send love to you. Give much love to dear | ||
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+ | Father who I suppose will be with you by the time | ||
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+ | you get this letter as he said he was going to | ||
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+ | break up his school in Orange last Friday and much to | ||
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+ | Nina, and write soon. Wishing you all a merry | ||
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+ | Xmas a happy new year and I will bid you good | ||
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+ | night. I am perfectly well, have gotten over my | ||
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+ | rheumatism and cold. God bless and keep you precious | ||
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+ | Mother. Your loving daughter | ||
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+ | Hattie L Powell |
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Blenheim December 18th 1864
Sunday evening
Your long and delightful
letter dearest Mother was received
by Wednesday mail,and I can't tell
you how glad I was to get it. When
your letter was written I see you had
not received my letter of the 9th, nor
Nina the one of the 11th but I hope both
have come to hand [?] this. I have
gotten all your letters, and two of them
were very long on the road. I had
a letter too from dear Father by the last
mail saying he had gotten released
from his place at Mr. Scott's and written
accepting Mr. [Cable's?] offer, and that you
and he would be together, oh dear
Mother I am so glad, I do hope you will
both be more comfortable now than
you have been for a long long time, but
do pray write and tell me where Mr.
Cable [hires?] for. I have asked Pa over and over
and he never answers and I have not
the least idea. He seems to think Sister
will go too, but she has not said a word
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about it in her letters to me. I ham so
glad Father will not be out in that
office any more. I hope you all will
have a pleasant Xmas, but I am afraid
poor Nina will be very lonely when you
are gone. She will have gotten a good
start tho on the winter, for the year
always seems to me half gone by the
first of January. I hope you will
have good weather for your journey
and shall feel anxious until it is
over. I am so sorry to hear Nina is
losing her hair, but if I were her
I should certainly have it shaved af-
ter Xmas unless she makes some
acquaintance at that time who she
thinks will be apt to see her
very often, for short hair is very becom-
ing to her, and she need not visit in
Richmond for the next three months
and by that time it would be long
enough to be becoming, and I don't think
any think else will restore it. She can
make a flannel cap of a round piece
and then a black silk cap in the same way
and then wear a net over that and a bow on
top as Minnie Lloyd does and the inside
caps will fill up the net and it will not
[Page 3]
look very badly I don't think, but if I
had it done I would have it done
directly after Xmas and have it shaved
backwards three times in the first
week, and then let it grow. Please tell
Nina that a white girl who has been
sewing for Mrs. H goes to Richmond on
Tuesday next and in a bundle going
to Mrs. Stewart I send a little box
containing a Xmas gift for her that
she must wear this Xmas for my sake
I hope it will be becoming to her and that
she will think it pretty. I did not read
the pieces you spoke of in the Sentinel, I
am very sorry I did not see them, but have
been so busy getting through some jobs
before Xmas that I have not read any
thing beyond the news. Oh has not poor
Loudon suffered. I should not be surpri-
sed to hear at any time that both Lees-
burg and Winchester had been burned to
the ground, what suffering there must
be in all that country this winter, and
will you ever be thankful enough that
we came away. Just think of Father being
in a Yankee prison and you within
[bounds?]. And so Mr. [Andrews?] is going to be
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married again and to a yankee
too, I think Mrs. [Boliter?] is more cra-
zy than he is, but poor Lila, it must
be a hard trial to her. I had a long
letter from Mary Chinchester the other
day, dated Nov 28th, she seems to be get-
ting along pretty well, but says she keeps
her [best?] clothes up the chimney, and that
half her time is occupied in trying to find hid-
ing places for her things. She said she
had been to Grandma's that morning
and that it really was a comfort to go
there they all looked and seemed so comforta-
ble and snug. Aunt Jane was so bright and
agreeable and Cattie so sweet she loved to go
there. She did not mention Aunt Mary's
family at all. Said all were well at [?]
[?] [?], but were intensely uneasy
about [?] having heard that she was
extremely ill. She said her letter would
come out by [?] Williams, Ron Bentley,
or Kate [?] (Gray) and begs me to
write, can you tell me how I can get
a letter to her. I was indeed sorry on
dear Aunt [?] account to hear
of Dr. [?] death. I know it is a terri-
ble blow to her and I am afraid they will
suffer, but I can't help feeling as if it was
[Page 1 - sideways across the page]
best for now she can come to the south and be one of
the family again and that she never could have
been while he lived, at least I know I never could
have felt towards her as I did to other members
of the family and I reckon the others feel so too, and she
would have been so hurt to find it so, if she were
[ever] south. I can't help feeling a kind of relief to
think I never will have to see [her?]. I should think
she would come on to Alexandria and take Grand-
ma's house there and then I should think that Uncle
Richard and Dr. [?]'s brother would not let her
suffer. What work is it Minnie is trying to get, I should
not think examining accounts would suit her
[Page 2 - sideways across the page]
at all. How is dear Aunt Bee now you did not men-
tion her at all in your last letter. Give my love to her
and Uncle [Bouer?]. Love to all at Franks. Mrs. D and Mrs.
Willie Hobson send love to you. Give much love to dear
Father who I suppose will be with you by the time
you get this letter as he said he was going to
break up his school in Orange last Friday and much to
Nina, and write soon. Wishing you all a merry
Xmas a happy new year and I will bid you good
night. I am perfectly well, have gotten over my
rheumatism and cold. God bless and keep you precious
Mother. Your loving daughter
Hattie L Powell