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1863-05-11 Page 1
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Floating Hospital "Nashville" May 11th 1863 Dear Wife I recd yours in due time and had my mind set to rest about the money. I suppozed it would reach you all right. I will send more and answer your letters first. I saw Jo Schott the other day he is well now, is pitted a little, but not so as to disfigure his face much. So old Weis cant have his wife yet. I did care the things you sent and enjoyed myself eating them hugely, as to the tobacco, it was a Luxury, was good and I thank you for it much. Kisses will be just as good for all that, & if you dont let me hug & kiss you just as much as I please when I get home, I'll get after some other mans wife, or a gal, for I tell you I'll want to kiss somebody. I wish you would send me Edies, & your own liknesses. I want to see you once more badly. Don't try to work too much in the garden yourself, & yet try & have [a good?] & kept as clean as possible. Mrs. Busdett must have taken a second thought, and concluded to "let Er rip." She is in a hurry to sleep with him now. Well I dont blame her, if I could see a decent white woman, should feel like it myself. Did Mr Clark have the small Pox? I'll try & convert Miss Steveson when I get home. What has become of Mrs Gates. She was my Milliner, you know. You spelt "heifer"
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Floating Hospital "Nashville" May 11th 1863 Dear Wife I recd yours in due time and had my mind set to rest about the money. I suppozed it would reach you all right. I will send more and answer your letters first. I saw Jo Schott the other day he is well now, is pitted a little, but not so as to disfigure his face much. So old Weis cant have his wife yet. I did care the things you sent and enjoyed myself eating them hugely, as to the tobacco, it was a Luxury, was good and I thank you for it much. Kisses will be just as good for all that, & if you dont let me hug & kiss you just as much as I please when I get home, I'll get after some other mans wife, or a gal, for I tell you I'll want to kiss somebody. I wish you would send me Edies, & your own liknesses. I want to see you once more badly. Don't try to work too much in the garden yourself, & yet try & have [a good?] & kept as clean as possible. Mrs. Busdett must have taken a second thought, and concluded to "let Er rip." She is in a hurry to sleep with him now. Well I dont blame her, if I could see a decent white woman, should feel like it myself. Did Mr Clark have the small Pox? I'll try & convert Miss Steveson when I get home. What has become of Mrs Gates. She was my Milliner, you know. You spelt "heifer"
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