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Ann Larimer letters to husband John, February-July 1865
01_1865-04-02-Page 01
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Quincy Adams Co Iowa April 2nd 1865 Dear husband I recieved a letter from you yesteday dated march 14th & 6 John you do not know how rejoyced I was to hear from you, It was 9 weeks & one day over since I recieved your last letter, you was not well at the time you wrote & my not hearing from you i was certain that you were dead - John 'ere this you have got the sorowfull news of your dear mother's death. I have made you all the particulars concerning her sicknessess & death & if you do not get these letters I will write it to you again, your letter to me was written just one week from the day your Mother died, she died the 7th and your letter was wrote the 14th one week ago last Thursday. Wills and Ellis was over said they was agoing to leave the first of next week but said they would some over Saturday or sunday & bring the girls over - they did not come & I did not hear from these untill yesterday. The boys left last Moday or Tuesday. And left as they came with out bidding me or the children good bye. Ellis is young & will be guided by will but what a pity it is that a good hearted, kind affectionate boy like Ellis should go off, with a man that has no affection for brothers or sisters or any relative in the world for Wills is entirely weeaned from his brothers & sisters. John I cannot understand how any one can loose all love and interest in a brother and sister that they have been raised with. I think Wills did not like it because you did not write to him. I told Ellis that you did not write to me often & that you
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Quincy Adams Co Iowa April 2nd 1865 Dear husband I recieved a letter from you yesteday dated march 14th & 6 John you do not know how rejoyced I was to hear from you, It was 9 weeks & one day over since I recieved your last letter, you was not well at the time you wrote & my not hearing from you i was certain that you were dead - John 'ere this you have got the sorowfull news of your dear mother's death. I have made you all the particulars concerning her sicknessess & death & if you do not get these letters I will write it to you again, your letter to me was written just one week from the day your Mother died, she died the 7th and your letter was wrote the 14th one week ago last Thursday. Wills and Ellis was over said they was agoing to leave the first of next week but said they would some over Saturday or sunday & bring the girls over - they did not come & I did not hear from these untill yesterday. The boys left last Moday or Tuesday. And left as they came with out bidding me or the children good bye. Ellis is young & will be guided by will but what a pity it is that a good hearted, kind affectionate boy like Ellis should go off, with a man that has no affection for brothers or sisters or any relative in the world for Wills is entirely weeaned from his brothers & sisters. John I cannot understand how any one can loose all love and interest in a brother and sister that they have been raised with. I think Wills did not like it because you did not write to him. I told Ellis that you did not write to me often & that you
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