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Hattie Powell Blenheim Albemarle County Virginia to Nina Powell np 11 December 1864
Blenheim December 11th [1864]
Sunday
Dear Nina,
I wrote to Mother by
Tuesday's mail and don't feel as if
I had any thing particular to say
to you this morning, but I have read
until I am tired, so take my [?]
just that I may rest myself a while.
Did ever any body see worse weather
than we have had for the last few
days, snow, rain, & sleet, and now
it is thawing, and as damp and [?]
as possible, I have not been to walk
for some time & feel the need of exer-
cise very much. I was very glad to-
day was not Emanuel Sunday as we
couldn ot possibly have gotten there
and I am afraid we won't get there
much of ever this winter, the roads
are so dreadful, the government wag-
ons cut them up so much. I have not
been to Emanuel now since the first
Sunday in November, and we won't have
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any church on Xmas day as it is Cou-
sin Johns Singular Sundaya t his Cum-
berland church. I am glad you are
going to stay a few days with Millie
Lee at Xmas and hope you will have
a pleasant time. You ought to culti-
vate Cousin Laura tucker for she is
a hospitable person & her house is a
pleasanat one to stay at. I have never
gotten any letter from Custis Lee ac-
knowledging the receipt of her gloves.
should not have known he had rece-
ved them but for your letter, do you
think he has ever written? I finished
last week the prettiest pair I have knit
yet, I don't know who to send them to, who
would you & Ma suggest. I think if I
knew Col Carter Braxton's direction
I would send them to him, just with
out any name. I finished yesterday a
[net?] of blackcotton which I made for
Mrs. Willie Hobson and just a quilling
of black [bridge?] across the front, and the
elastic you sent me in it (half the elastic
was for Mag) which tho' not very good
answered as I could not get any better.
then I made two beautiful bows, one
trimmed with blk bugles which I am
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going to put on a net I want to crotchet
for Sister between now & Xmas & the other
trimmed with [steel?] beads to wear my
self with my steel net. Then I cut out
and half made for myself a pair of
these wide linen cuffs, & by the way
I want you to get me a doz pearl but-
tons to put on them & send them to me
in a letter as I want them to waer
Xmas, I will send you $10 in this
letter to get them wtih. I don't know
where I shall spend my Xmas, wtih
Fannie if she sends for me, but if she
does not, I shall have to way of getting
down there, and I have heard nothing
from her on the subject, and poor things
they aer in such distress that she may
not think of it. It is well you did not
make any arrangement to come
up there as of course you could not
have come since Sallie's death.
How much holiday will you give Xmas?
I think I shall only take a week, none
of the children seem to care for more
I take two weeks in the spring if it is
only that I may have that time to
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fix my summer dresses, as I shall have
a good deal of fixing to do then. I don't
think darling you ought to feel so about
changing your dress, in these times one
has to wear what they have,a nd the
mourning does not consist in the
dress, we can never forget, or cease
to mourn for our loved ones, while we
remain in this world, and you feel
as much like taking off the dress
now as you ever will. Sister & I will
take ours off in the spring. I hope dear
Father will get down to see you all Xmas.
I feel so glad to think three of you will
be together at any rate and especially
that you will be wtih darling Mother.
Have you ever made your cloth [gloves?] & did
you get the to fit. I have never seen
the [feather?] flowers dipped in wax but
I should think it would be a great im-
provement. Have you made many since
you went to Dr. P? I have made very
few, only what I wanted to wear at Min-
na's wedding. I am very glad Mildred
gave you a comb, it was very kind in
her. How are you fixing your hair
this winter? And so you think Maj W.
[sideways on page 1]
is a beau of Mary Stewart's. I don't know anything about
it, having never seen them together, but Mrs. Hobson insists
that he is not. Many persons thought him a beau of Bells
when they were up here but I did not, and I did not
think he seemed to be a great admirer of any of the
family except Mr. T, but Mary was not here she may be
an exception too. How did you like him upon further ac-
quaintance? I sent him a pair of gloves the other day as he
was a refugee soldier. I am sorry indeed to hear Edwin
Lee's health is so bad. Will this be his his first child, and you
all never will tell me whether Mrs. Beard ever had that
baby she thought she was expecting when we left. I have
never gotten my watch yet, I gave Mr. W. H. an order
this evening to give to a gentleman who is going to Richmond
[sideways across pages 3 and 4)
this week & promises to call at Mrs. Lions & get it for me. I
miss it so very much. Where did you get bright silk to
trim your dress with and silver buttons, I am afraid
you are getting extravagant. I wrote to Madge as soon
as I received you letter, I think her P.O. is [Kennedy?]
P.O. Brunswick, Co, but I am not quite certain. I am
sorry to hear our Winchester friends are suffering [much?]
but hope the vile yankee dogs will leave the valley [very?]
soon, I see they have been suffering terribly in Loudon &
Fauquier too. Well I think I have written quite a long
letter considering I had nothing to say, and it is cold enough
tonight to freeze a body so I must get warm before I go to
bed, and so will bid you good night. Give much love
to darling Mother and to Aunt Bec & Minnie & all at
Franks. How is Minnie since she went to Richmond? Ask
her if she is not well enough to write to me yet, and is
she doing anything? Give my love too to the family at Gen
Lees, & Cousin Emily. Write soon darling to your loving
Sister Hattie.