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Ann Larimer letters to husband John, February-July 1865

03_1864-05-28-Page 03

John, I don't know what you will think when you come to read the last letter I wrote to you before this, I thought if you were comeing home this summer, you could get a shawl a great deal cheaper in some of those cities than you could farther west. I will have to have one this winter, as I could not go out last winter without borrowing Mother's, but do as you think best about getting any thing that I have mentioned.
Monday 29th. Grathes is going up to the office to day. I will close my letter & send it up by him. It is very warm to day. Grathes thinks I better not write untill I get a letter from you. he sayes, "John may be on his way home." well, I only hope it is so. still, I do not expect to see you for some time yet. I don't know how to direct my letters. I have been directing them to Sherman's army. I suppose that you get them, so I will direct this the same way. John, we talk every day about your comeing home. Eddie don't know whitch he would like to see best- pa or unckle G. Crow, as he has wrote that he will bring him a pony. Clara sayes, "I want to see pa like every thing." and so do I. good bye for this time, dear husband, your wife, Ann Larimer

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John, I don't know what you will think when you come to read the last letter I wrote to you before this, I thought if you were comeing home this summer, you could get a shawl a great deal cheaper in some of those cities than you could farther west. I will have to have one this winter, as I could not go out last winter without borrowing Mother's, but do as you think best about getting any thing that I have mentioned. Monday 29th. Grathes is going up to the office to day. I will close my letter & send it up by him. It is very warm to day. Grathes thinks I better not write untill I get a letter from you. he sayes, "John may be on his way home." well, I only hope it is so. still, I do not expect to see you for some time yet. I don't know how to direct my letters. I have been directing them to Sherman's army. I suppose that you get them, so I will direct this the same way. John, we talk every day about your comeing home. Eddie don't know whitch he would like to see best- pa or unckle G. Crow, as he has wrote that he will bring him a pony. Clara sayes, "I want to see pa like every thing." and so do I. good bye for this time, dear husband, your wife, Ann Larimer