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Ann Larimer letters to husband John, February-July 1865

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Quincy, Adams Co., Iowa July 13th My Dear Husband,
I write to you last week. I then thought that perhaps the next letter that I would get from you would contain the news of your being disscharged. - No such good news for us. I see your letter to day written July 3rd & that picture that you sent to scare the birds out of the garden with. If you have no objections, my dear, I will keep it in a safer place than that. I think it is as near life like as possible, for that allbum when you come home to put my photographs in, Johny. the eyes, the mouth look so natural. I certainly think you must have been thinking of what those lips would recieve when I got the picture. I did not tell Eddie whoes it was. he looked at it a few moments, "why, it lookes like my pa, don't it, ma?" You say for me to sell the cattle if I have a chance, why, John, if there is any prospect of your comeing home this fall? why not wait untill you come? I suppose you have not made up your mind as to what you will do if you live to come home. If I have a chance to sell them for a good price, I will do so, & if not, why, I will keep the untill fall & see if you are not home to attend to them. I hope so, at least, & as you say, if there was a show at all for your comeing out this fall, I would not say for you to come home this summer. The parting, how I should dread it! Then when I think of your comeing probably in the course of a month, how my spirits revive up & how my heart beats to think of it.... Will the time ever come that we will meet to part no more on earth? G. Smith & your friend Mr. Carpender got to Quincy last friday. Smith is at his brother's down at the

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Quincy, Adams Co., Iowa July 13th My Dear Husband, I write to you last week. I then thought that perhaps the next letter that I would get from you would contain the news of your being disscharged. - No such good news for us. I see your letter to day written July 3rd & that picture that you sent to scare the birds out of the garden with. If you have no objections, my dear, I will keep it in a safer place than that. I think it is as near life like as possible, for that allbum when you come home to put my photographs in, Johny. the eyes, the mouth look so natural. I certainly think you must have been thinking of what those lips would recieve when I got the picture. I did not tell Eddie whoes it was. he looked at it a few moments, "why, it lookes like my pa, don't it, ma?" You say for me to sell the cattle if I have a chance, why, John, if there is any prospect of your comeing home this fall? why not wait untill you come? I suppose you have not made up your mind as to what you will do if you live to come home. If I have a chance to sell them for a good price, I will do so, & if not, why, I will keep the untill fall & see if you are not home to attend to them. I hope so, at least, & as you say, if there was a show at all for your comeing out this fall, I would not say for you to come home this summer. The parting, how I should dread it! Then when I think of your comeing probably in the course of a month, how my spirits revive up & how my heart beats to think of it.... Will the time ever come that we will meet to part no more on earth? G. Smith & your friend Mr. Carpender got to Quincy last friday. Smith is at his brother's down at the