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Richmond  friday 12  June  1863

 

   I wrote you two days ago my dearest wife

but write a line again to supply something which I

forgot then to say.  It is to ask you to request

Mr. Johnson to direct the stage driver to Ringgold

to enquire of Mr. Pollock daily for  any thing for

you or for Mr. Wilmer and carry  it up by the stage.

   I shall, unless I can meet with a private oppor-

-unity (which I do not expect) send by Monday's [crossed out]

Tuesday's cars a bundle to Ringgold con-

-taining the unbleached cotton which you wrote for.

    I wrote to you,  as I have just said,  two days

ago soon after getting your note & Page's letter.

I wrote to Page by same mail.   Mr.  Custis

arrived here yesterday;  he said his daughter had

been to see L. & P.   I shall send their shoes by

Mr. C.   Nothing (except public matters which

you see in the papers) has occurred since I

wrote,  I have not heard from Bob.  I went

to see Miss Judith Carter Nelson yesterday.  She

told me that all [underlined] the servants from Shelly had

gone except the carriage driver & his wife.

    I have not seen Lizzie Ewell since  wrote  to

you- nor indeed any one except Miss J. Cart. and

Mrs. Miles Selden to whom I paid a visit last night.

   Dr. Garrett went home yesterday by permission,

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as I heard, of the Yankee commander at Wmsburg.

He carried Miss Betty Peachy with him.

    I am quite well and hope that you and all the

dear ones with you are so too.

    I am writing in the office and hurried, so I

must say good bye, with love and kisses for every

body & my darling Lucy Page,   Yr.  R.S.

-Mrs. Saunders