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spun for summer & winter & spinning warp & filling.
We are not able to get any bale cotton here now. Her peas
are almost ready to bloom but the other vegetables are
backward. She has a great many flowers & some beautiful
rare ones, blooming now. Frankie is getting right fat & is
a right good sweet pretty child now, she grows very fast
& crows & plays a great deal. I don't know what we would do
without her these war times. Sister Sue has 129 chickens
7 goslings & 9 little ducks & 8 turkeys setting. She says tell
you that she is going to hold you & Aunt Nancy to that bar
gain of coming over next summer says tell Aunt Nancy that
Frankie is just like Uncle Sam was & that she must come
& see her. She says she wants to write to you very much
but can't find time. I would like very much to make you
a visit & bring you back with me & will do it if Ma is well
enough for me to leave her. I was so glad to hear such
good news from Jimmie. If this war should be the
means of [Beverlys?] conversion too. Aunt Nancy will be
thankful for it to all eternity. Mr. Peck preached at
Briery yesterday an excellent sermon. Mr. [...arey?] will
come back next month. I know the troops will be sorry
to give him up they all love him very much. We are [p...?]
ing to have a weekly prayer meeting at M. Pleasant
& the neighbors are going to meet next court & invite
the refugees to come to the country at it will be cheaper
than boarding in Farmville or at the College. Mrs Stone
Wall Jackson is living at Dr. Dabney's. Brother went to
see her & said he liked her very much. Sister Maria
Bet & John [Venable?] were here not long ago to see Ma. John
belongs to Jackson's division. Brother has been up too.
Sister Kate & Brother Will & all well. Brother Will got a
substitute. Cousin Fannie Flournoy is staying at the Co Ho to
be convenient to Dr. Watkins. Her health has given away very
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much since the were taken prisoners at Donaldson. She got a letter from Nat he is at Chicago [See Marginalia on Page 1]
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