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I received your letter [?] my dear
Selina and am truly grieved to learn that
you have been so ill. I fear Mr. [?] has so
[?] I did not see him when he was here
or I could have asked him to call for a
reply to your note. I hope you will get well
now but at our age one does not recover [?]
so rapidly as when they are younger. My own
health is good, tho I do not get any better
of the rheumatism and I am [?] hopeful
now that I shall ever be on my feet again.
But God's will be done - We have determined
now to remain in town till the first of
July. We did not want to go quite so far
into the country as New Market or to give
our kind friends the trouble and expense of
furnishing a house We shall probably be
able to get the Cottage at Bremo, which will
suit us very well. We still feel so unsettled that
we cannot fix upon any permanent abiding place.
I know not what a day may bring forth.
Of course my thoughts and wishes turn to
my dear old Arlington yet even if it
should be restored to us which is very
doubtful at present we should scarcely
be able to live there - yet I will not
attempt to penetrate into the future. It is
in His hands who doeth all things well
and whom we must [?] [trust?] even when
He crushes all our fondest hopes. When I think
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of the failure of this struggle and of all
that this has cost us my heart sinks within
me. Has all this precious blood been
spent in vain? It is happiness on those
who have poured it out on their country's
soil. Do we wish for your two noble boys.
They are far happier than those who
remain. I am truly [rejoiced?] that you
lot is cast among such kind people. This
war has brought out the fine [?]
feelings of so many and [?] a day
[?] that we do not receive some
testimonial of remembrance and affection
from all parts of the country. Our [?]
anxiety now is for President Davis. If the yan
kee papers speak truth he is most cruelly
treated. I do not see any hope for him. [Some?]
in a [feat] of justice and mercy for the malice
of his enemies will do everything to destroy
and humiliate him - A call has been made
for him in one of the [?] at Fortress
Monroe and iron bars put in the windows.
His family not allowed to remain with him
and refused permission to go North are sent
[South?] where they cannot even hear from
him - as there are no mails South