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Springville Feb
Dear B I guess you
wonder why you don’t get a letter from home. Well Sylvia came home about
the same time that we received your letter and staid apart of two weeks and
then I went home with her and staid over two weeks had a good visit- came
home and found things all right. Will managed to take care of himself- we
get along verry well get our bread and meat to Guilds-Campbell let me have
thirty five cents that he collected that is all. Mr. Allens sawmill brought
me five dollars and I ear a little money every week you know so we get along
first rate we have all been well and that has been a great blessing we have
had a verry mild winter so far. Tho is it snowing now like a big storm it
comes from the northeast like a hurrycane. We had a letter last week from
Chauncey he was well then he is in Alexandria- haven’t you received a letter
from him yet- lest you have not I will write you his address Company A 64
Regt NY 86 Alexandria Virginia Care of Captain Washburn
I suppose you have heard of the
great victory in Kentucky. I do hope the war will soon come to a close so
the poor souldiers can go home. Chauncey seems in tolerable good spirits I
hope you are well and enjoying yourself in trying to make yourself and
others happy around you- don’t worry about us at home we are getting along
verry well. Will keeps a horse yet he manages to get his own horse feed yet
and he has got him some new cloths. Sylvia wonders you don’t write to her-
Her woodhouse in Listern remain the same as you left them. She has got her
lime and means to have her listern made in the spring- I now expect Mr.
Holmans folks to stay here another year if they do that will help us to
live- I mean a part of the rent will go to pay interest money. I do wish
Will could get something to do. Can’t he come and work with you if he would
uncle’s folks are well so far as I know Will and I are going down there
when the storm is over to get some buttermilk and do you have a little milk
once in a while we don’t have any now. Yet we have no reason to complain it
is better with us than we deserve a great deal. I think I can truly say-
Surely goodness and mercy has followed us all the days of our lives
notwithstanding all the ills that have seemed to befall us. Whom the lord
loveth he chasteneth- and we know that we have gone astray and if he takes
such mild means to bring us to acknowledge him haven’t we great reason to
rejoice in him and be thankful for the mercies we do enjoy
Deacon Miner is married to Janus
Perpams widow it seemed he had been looking around sometime for a wife
finally old Albro took to helping him. She is some years older than he is I
don’t think of eny more news worth mentioning.
Please give my good wishes to
Lucian and wife hoping that they are enjoying life as they are passing along
yours affectionately Selissa P.
Joslyn
I hope you will be prosperous in
all your undertakings and when you think best to come home we shall all be
glad to see you- I hope you wont wait so long as I have before you write
again and I shall be there to answer it. Yours for life
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