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Springville September 23rd
1862
My Dear Nephew,
You can’t think how glad I was to
resieve a letter from you. But sorry to hear you are not well, and I do
hope that you will soon get well or be permitted to come home.. The latter
would be so grand. Is there a great many sick there? It’s very pleasant here
now though pretty sickly the dyptheria is raging pretty extencively. Our
fair is to come off on the first and second of Oct. Wish you could be here
to go through. I don’t expect it’ll be much though.. Do you expect it
would be safe to send a box there if you are going to stay there we will
send you a box of fruit sugars cheese and other eatables- Write what you
think about it. I think that your mother is blessed with exilent
neighbors. Mrs. Heath is according to my taste an exilent woman. Well one
of “our folks” As to your living with me a month Oh! I should be so glad- We
would live on chicken pies until we all crowed or cackled. Your mother
seemed the most cheerful after she got your letter last Sunday that I’ve
seen her in some time. Though she keep up her spirits pretty well, be shure
and write if you think you will have to stay there and let us send you a
box. Goodbye now. Maria thinks she can fill the rest of the sheet
Write soon to your affectionate Aunt Susan
Camp Woodshead
Flat on the floor Sept/23
1862
Dear Cousin- I don’t know as I
can think of news enough to fill this paper But I’m bound to make markes all
over it It’s so wastful to send blank paper These heard times- No Sall
aint married yet and I guess Peters is sick of the bargain when he gets
sober. I know I ought to write to Dick Harrison but then I have so man to
write to that I don’t write to “noone” Harry Rogers has enlisted (good)
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