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Ann Larimer letters to husband John, February-July 1865
01_1865-07-02-Page 01
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Quincy Adams Co., Iowa July 2nd, 1865 Dear Husband, This week has been a very busy week with me & then you don't know how dissappointed I was when I see H. [Millaner], he stoped in fry day morning, the buckboard came in about 9 o'clock, it was late oweing to the bridges being from all the stream & the roads being very bad. Hysam came in to the front door & through the kitchen into the shed where I was washing. I did not know him for a moment & then I thought you must be along with him. where is John I said. Then he told me that he promised to call to see me. he did not stop but a few moments as he had to go to Red Oak. his Father lives in Red Oak. They looked pretty nice. He said if there was no prospect of your being disscharged this fall, that you would be home in a couple of months. As mutch as I want you to come home & want to see you, if there was a prospect of your comeing home for good this fall, I would wrather not have you come home untill you come home to stay. How I would like to see you to day & talk with you just a little while, you seem to be so discontented & dissatisfied, how I wish you could be home by [sic] [sic]. I recieved your letter the same day that [sic] came, the 30th of June, written the 19th. I wrote last week to you & the week before at Queen City. I think the letters that I wrote at Queen City was wrote the same day that you o
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Quincy Adams Co., Iowa July 2nd, 1865 Dear Husband, This week has been a very busy week with me & then you don't know how dissappointed I was when I see H. [Millaner], he stoped in fry day morning, the buckboard came in about 9 o'clock, it was late oweing to the bridges being from all the stream & the roads being very bad. Hysam came in to the front door & through the kitchen into the shed where I was washing. I did not know him for a moment & then I thought you must be along with him. where is John I said. Then he told me that he promised to call to see me. he did not stop but a few moments as he had to go to Red Oak. his Father lives in Red Oak. They looked pretty nice. He said if there was no prospect of your being disscharged this fall, that you would be home in a couple of months. As mutch as I want you to come home & want to see you, if there was a prospect of your comeing home for good this fall, I would wrather not have you come home untill you come home to stay. How I would like to see you to day & talk with you just a little while, you seem to be so discontented & dissatisfied, how I wish you could be home by [sic] [sic]. I recieved your letter the same day that [sic] came, the 30th of June, written the 19th. I wrote last week to you & the week before at Queen City. I think the letters that I wrote at Queen City was wrote the same day that you o
Iowa Women’s Lives: Letters and Diaries
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