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Friday

                        Richmond 6 Feb . 1863

            I received your letter my beloved

wife and was more comforted by it

than by any thing which has oc-

curred to me since my arrival here.

            It did make me feel a fresh

regret that I was not enjoying your

society and that of all the dear

ones with you - especially  my darling

little L. Page;  I think of her all

the time especially when I see a

little child.  Separation from

those whose presence is necessary

to my enjoyment of life was

never so hard.  I do not know why.

But I suppose I shall get gra-

-ually accustomed -hardened - to it,

especially as I have the repu-

-tation of being rather a hard man.

I should have written to you before

this, again, but that I have for a

day or two been occupied during

the morning at my office, and in

the afternoon in looking for quarters

& in removing.  This I did yesterday

aftn .  I have a room in a very

quiet part of the town on 3d.  Street

between Clay and Leigh Streets, and

board across the street where Jno  Henley

and Chas . Hansford & Wm. Waller &

Sydney Smith live; both houses belong

to widow ladies.  I have old acquaint-

-ance therefore and a good long walk

to my business which gives me exer-

-cise.   I took my seat in my

office on the day before yesterday

and am in a small comfortable room.

(in the old Washington Hotel opposite

St. Paul's) with two other gentlemen

one of whom is an old acquaintance;

both are kind & courteous, as are all

with whom I have immediate business,

and call me Professor!  I cannot

yet tell any thing as to promotion;  

there is a prodigious pulling for officers,

  It feels strange to me to work six

hours a day, but I feel none the

 worse for it.  They have a very

churlish regulation prohibiting of-

-ficers to have their letters put in

the department box-(this however

exists only in the Treasury Dept.

Mr .Memminger being crusty)  so

continue to address your letters to the

Ballard House where they will be

kind enough to take care of them

for me until I can make some

other arrangement. There was

no letter for me there yesterday

late in the aftn .  but I hope I shall

find one there tomorrow afternoon.

  I have not been able to go down

there this evening.  I hope you

recd. my letter written last Saturday;

the little package which Mr.  Joynes

was kind enough to take I suppose

you have of course recd.   and I hope

the calico was acceptable.  By the

way I did not conceive that I had

any right to ask Mr.  Joynes  to assist

me to obtain an office - he is always

kind and polite & I have no doubt

would have done it with pleasure, but

I had asked none but very old acquaint-

-ance & intimate friends to trouble them-

-selves in my behalf.  Your request

about the spool of cotton came too late;

after Mr.  Vest's departure.  I now send

them wound on cards, & I hope you will

get them & this of course.  Present my kind regards to

Mr.  Wilmer & tell him that it will give

me great pleasure if he will at any

spare moment  write to me.  Give my

affectionate love to the girls & kiss

the darling children.  Tell darling Page not to

forget me.  Best wishes to Mrs.  S. &  Bessy.  I

have not seen Major Semple, we have

missed each other.  Farewell my dearest

wife for the moment.  Ever your  R. S.

Mrs .   Saunders }  Kind respect to friends - Gilmers.  Coles &c.