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1863-01-06 Page 01
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Sheffield Jan [5th?] 1863 Dear Doctor We recieved your letter last saturday am glad that you are better but sorry you are not entirely well. we cannot move yet be cause the roads are so bad and have been all the time for a good while. I am glad you had a good time on Christmas. The aid society got up an Oyster supper for the benifit of the soldiers, made fifteen dollars clear had a very plesant time considering it rained all the time as hard as it could. I thought you wuld have enjoyed it. Patton moved away before his bill was presented; we only got fifty cents of him. John had a letter from Sarah Gates, stateing that Sarah Edmunds had been very sick: but was better. The children are at Hesper going to school. She says that their uncle Henry has been suffering from dropsy for the last six months, will not live long Calvin went out there to see him and before he got home, his brother George died, he was her husband's father. Jonny Bliss that came from the west with his wife has been quite with lung fever; they got disgusted with Webster because he did not come often enough and employed Hubbard he is better I believe now. Life has its ups and downs and people are pretty well off if the downs do not come the oftenest. Respecting your affairs I think you missed it in not reporting by letter to the Gov. as soon as you got their. But I would not trouble about it; it will all
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Sheffield Jan [5th?] 1863 Dear Doctor We recieved your letter last saturday am glad that you are better but sorry you are not entirely well. we cannot move yet be cause the roads are so bad and have been all the time for a good while. I am glad you had a good time on Christmas. The aid society got up an Oyster supper for the benifit of the soldiers, made fifteen dollars clear had a very plesant time considering it rained all the time as hard as it could. I thought you wuld have enjoyed it. Patton moved away before his bill was presented; we only got fifty cents of him. John had a letter from Sarah Gates, stateing that Sarah Edmunds had been very sick: but was better. The children are at Hesper going to school. She says that their uncle Henry has been suffering from dropsy for the last six months, will not live long Calvin went out there to see him and before he got home, his brother George died, he was her husband's father. Jonny Bliss that came from the west with his wife has been quite with lung fever; they got disgusted with Webster because he did not come often enough and employed Hubbard he is better I believe now. Life has its ups and downs and people are pretty well off if the downs do not come the oftenest. Respecting your affairs I think you missed it in not reporting by letter to the Gov. as soon as you got their. But I would not trouble about it; it will all
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