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William Elmer Thorp correspondence, 1846-1868
1862-02-07 William E. Thorpe to Alfred Thorpe Page 3
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You wished to know how I got along for socks and I am very happy to say that I have great plenty of everything to wear and when we wear anything out all we have to do is to go to the Quarter Master and draw new ones About those mittens I think as you do on one point that is that it showed warm friendship but yet think you carried that point a little to far and as for making an appropriation of part of my wages but as I did not enlist for the purpose of making money and am in camp where every thing we get costs money I am of the opinion that it is better to spend it for comforts and enjoyments of the right kind than to hoard it up and go uncomfortable for instance we want
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You wished to know how I got along for socks and I am very happy to say that I have great plenty of everything to wear and when we wear anything out all we have to do is to go to the Quarter Master and draw new ones About those mittens I think as you do on one point that is that it showed warm friendship but yet think you carried that point a little to far and as for making an appropriation of part of my wages but as I did not enlist for the purpose of making money and am in camp where every thing we get costs money I am of the opinion that it is better to spend it for comforts and enjoyments of the right kind than to hoard it up and go uncomfortable for instance we want
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