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Andrew F. Davis papers, 1862
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to write than I have had lately before I answer them. Bill Sering and me have been busy all day making out pay rolls for our other two months pay which is due us, and which we expected to get tomorrow but if we march it will be postponed again and maybe for some time to come I Sent you by Express yesterday $110,00 which is all I could Spare this time but if we get more soon I will be able to Send more and hope to Keep up to my limit of Sending $75 per month, but by Sending So little this time it will Keep me pretty short for a payment or two to make it up but I guess I can make it. I understand by the Bennett women that there is several of the Liberty people expected here tomorrow but I am fearful that we will be gone before they get here and I will be sorry for it for I would like to see them very much. Now Sally I will tell you what I think about Selling our houshold goods I am as ever opposed to Selling them, but if you are not able to Keep house and take care of them and you think you cannot Stay at Liberty, I propose to make a proposition to mother to Keep them for us until I can come home I will pay the rent of Some suitable house which She may Select if she will Stay with them, which I think will be much cheaper in the long run than for you to move them to your fathers and have them tumbled around as they will have to be in moveing them out there and back again and as to selling them that is entirely out of the question for we could not at present get 10 cents on the dollar of what they are worth. One thing I hate worse than all the rest for you to move away and that is it will take the children away from School as you Know by experience that it is impossible to send them to do any good while at your fathers. Therefore if you come to the conclusion that you must go away, that will be my plan but I hope you will Soon be well enough again So that you can Stay with them. I want you to show this letter to mother and See if Such an arrangement can be made with her, and let me Know what she thinks of it
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to write than I have had lately before I answer them. Bill Sering and me have been busy all day making out pay rolls for our other two months pay which is due us, and which we expected to get tomorrow but if we march it will be postponed again and maybe for some time to come I Sent you by Express yesterday $110,00 which is all I could Spare this time but if we get more soon I will be able to Send more and hope to Keep up to my limit of Sending $75 per month, but by Sending So little this time it will Keep me pretty short for a payment or two to make it up but I guess I can make it. I understand by the Bennett women that there is several of the Liberty people expected here tomorrow but I am fearful that we will be gone before they get here and I will be sorry for it for I would like to see them very much. Now Sally I will tell you what I think about Selling our houshold goods I am as ever opposed to Selling them, but if you are not able to Keep house and take care of them and you think you cannot Stay at Liberty, I propose to make a proposition to mother to Keep them for us until I can come home I will pay the rent of Some suitable house which She may Select if she will Stay with them, which I think will be much cheaper in the long run than for you to move them to your fathers and have them tumbled around as they will have to be in moveing them out there and back again and as to selling them that is entirely out of the question for we could not at present get 10 cents on the dollar of what they are worth. One thing I hate worse than all the rest for you to move away and that is it will take the children away from School as you Know by experience that it is impossible to send them to do any good while at your fathers. Therefore if you come to the conclusion that you must go away, that will be my plan but I hope you will Soon be well enough again So that you can Stay with them. I want you to show this letter to mother and See if Such an arrangement can be made with her, and let me Know what she thinks of it
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