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                                                                                                        Wmsburg Oct 31st/61

 

[This is written upside down, across the  front page:

I dont know the price of the articles

sent for, but will send the money

when the bill comes]        

 

My Dear Cousin,

            Will you if per-

fectly convenient, get me four

yards of the carpeting called [Bocken?],

a mould from the [tinners?] for

moulding candles, & $1 worth of

Potash for making soap, as soap

& candles are very hard to get

down here. I am going to make

both. I think the mould for candles

& the Potash might be packed

up in the carpet, & let the mer-

chant send it, if he will I will

enclose the [direction.]

            With the enclosed $1 you would

dear Cousin, do me a great fa-

vour, if you would buy a

 

 

bottle of cologne & accept it as a

present from me. I wish to be

held in sweet remembrance by

you all, but my letters must

be very alarming, & unwelcome

for they are always to ask

some favor of some of you.

    How did Cousin Eliza know

that I wanted [Mignionette?] [?]

I send every fall to Godey's

"Lady's Book" for them & was la-

menting that I could not get

them this year, when the

little package of seed arrived.

            Tell Sally Gary gave me the

welcome information that she

(Sally) was thinking of spending

Xmas with me, tell her, to be sure

& come & bring some of you with

her. I wish Davy would pay us

a visit. We think with great plea

sure of his sojourn with us.

            The churches are all oc

 

 

cupied as hospitals so our ministers

Methodist, Baptist & Episcopalian

have to preach in the Chapel at

the Asylum. There are seven

hundred & fifty sick soldiers in

town so that we are kept very

busy sending articles of food [remit?]

able for the sick to them. [Arena]

takes them something every day.

[Lettie?] Semple, Mr. Tyler's daughter

lives in the College hospital,

& has charge of all the churches

& makes an excellent nurse &

superintendant.

            The Zouave & Louisaanna [sic]

Regiment gave a brilliant

ball at their camp. One mile

from town, & it being damp

with no floor, the next one they

gave was at Colonel Munford's

(Tazewell Hall). They adorned the house

with flags, evergreens &c & speak

of having a series of them during

 

 

the winter.

            You would be surprised

to see how strangely Williams

burg looks now, the streets are

so much crowded. So many hundreds

being added to the population.

            We have lately had a charming

visit from our Friends Mrs Mil-

lington from Tennessee. They have

lost all their property it being

in [Phila?] & confiscated.

            We have had since the war

commenced, 17 sick soldiers

staying with us, & 4 had typhoid

fever, & all got well, for which

we feel thankful. One from Georgia

staid with us six weeks & I did not

see him, until the morning he left. They

had an excellent nurse from the

camp so I did not have any trouble.

            It is so dark I can write no more.

            Best love to Aunt [S?] & Cousin E.

            Yr loving Cousin

                                    Sally Maria Galt