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Richmond
Sunday 28 June 1863
I wrote you by my beloved wife
a few days ago and received your
letter of 24th a day or so after.
I was charmed that you all,
children & all had so many things
to enjoy and to make your time pass
comfortably and agreeably.
Since I resigned my clerkship,
which was about two days before
you wrote, I have been walking
about doing & seeing into various
things preparatory to my leaving
here and I find my feelings
of every sort improved. Every
one tells me that I am looking
very well and I certainly feel
very well altho' I am certainly
not so large as I was; this
I find rather an improvement
to my comfort. I suppose that
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my sedentary habits during the
forenoon did not exactly suit my
constitution. The life that I am
going to undertake will be any thing
but sedentary. Indeed I expect that
it will, for a month or two at least,
be rather laborious; but this I am
quite prepared for. Whilst I always
enjoyed play, I believe that I could
always do as much work as
any one. I shall have much
riding about to do in the beginning
and hope to get thro' that part of
my duty before the roads become
bad. I am glad that you
got the bundle safe, and especially
that the shirts suited Mr. Wilmer.
Present my kindest regards to him
and also especially to Miss Lizzie
whom I shall see again with
great pleasure. I will try my
dear wife to get the things which
you request; most of them I can
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certainly get. I fear the blankets will
trouble me more than any thing else;
those that I have seen are so small.
I do not know certainly about the
iron things, but I shall look.
I have not heard a word from the
girls since Page's letter written on
their arrival at Ingleside. I have
heard of them thro' others as well as thro'
you. I shall hear I presume before
I leave here as I wrote to Lelia &
also sent a message thro' Mr. Custis
(to whom I wrote) to say that I should
leave here soon & that if they wanted
any thing they must write at once.
I hope to go up to you my
dearest wife, on friday next and
I hope to find you all well Give
my best love to Anne & Mary & tell
them how glad I am that I shall get
to the Rectory in time to see them
before their departure. I fear that
I shall not be able to go to Lexington;
my time will be quite occupied at first
in organizing as mine is a new business ["new business" underlined]
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not only to me but to the whole corps
of quarter masters in the same service.
Present me most kindly to all [underlined]
friends-Mrs. Semple &c &c.
With my fondest love to Georgy &
Breck tell them that I shall bring
them a spelling book a piece, &
with many kisses for my darling
Lucy Page, tell her that grandpa
will bring her some candy.
I went to see Lizzie Ewell the
other night but she was out and
I kept on my way to Col. Munford's
where I found that Col. M. & wife had
gone up to Botetourt to Mr. or Dr.
Copeland's. I believe Mrs. M's brother or
uncle: the young ladies sent much love;
they are going to Hanover this week &
Lizzie Ewell with them.
I am somewhat surprized at what you
tell me about the V's. I knew that money
was the foundation stone deeply settled
but I thought there was a larger infer-
-structure of policy ^than appears. I have written
my paper out so goodbye 'til friday.
Yr. R.S.
Mrs. Saunders Remce. to servts