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Thursday night
Richmond 12 March 1863
As Mr. Gilmer proposes to leave
here for home on Saturday and this is
Thursday night, I seat myself to write
to you, my beloved wife; as I shall have
to deliver the letter & whatever Mr. G. can
carry , to him some time tomorrow. I re-
-ceived dear Page's letter with your little note
inside, on yesterday morning & have
written to her. The letter will of course, if
it proceeds with any regularity, reach you
by the time this departs. I have pro-
-vided, my dear wife, 10 lb sugar and 10 lb
rice which I have put in two bundles
enveloped with cotton cloth and which I hope
Mr. Gilmer may be enabled to take with
him. If too bulky I must look for
another opportunity. I send also
other small articles- some paper which
you expressed a wish for-some spools of
cotton which I suppose as always accept-
Marginalia from page 1:
I thought it better to get a little trunk for the things it will be useful
=able- some shoestrings which I have
heard all of the girls lamenting the want
of, & a small paper of candy which I
send merely to please the children for
a while and make them remember me
I would have sent more (altho; there is a
dollar's worth-or at least a dollar's purchase)
but I did not like to increase the size of
the bundle. I saw also something to
make darling baby a spring frock;
I thought the
might be more difficult to
procure something suitable for her than for
any one of the others; I cannot say that I
like the color but it is difficult to find
any thing at all besides it seems
a good article & I will wash as I am told.
I hope it will make the little darling
comfortable and neat. Lastly, I enclose
$25. which with the check for the same
sum that I sent in my last letter hope
will suffice you for present purposes.
Mrs. Semple has not arrived, a cir-
-cumstance which seems to have perplexed
Dr. Miller, of whom I enquired today, &
who said that Mrs. S. had written to him to
meet her at the cars on Tuesday; I do not
wonder that she did not come on that day
as it was an awful one; but she did
not come this evening as I learned at the
hotel when I called about sunset to see
Mr. Semple who was awaiting her arri-
-val as Dr. Miller informed me. I did
not however see Mr. S. and you may by
this time have seen him as Dr. M. told
me that if Mrs. S. did not come today, he
(Mr. S.) would go up tomorrow, I am sorry
I did not see him as I might have
sent some of my bundles by him.
I thought it was better to buy a little cotton
cloth & sew up the sugar & rice, as the cotton
will be of some service. I sewed
them up by myself. Give my best
love to dear Lelia & Page & tell them
that I went to see Lizzie Ewell tonight but
did not find her at home; she had gone
to see her uncle; but I had a very pleaseant
visit altho' neither Lizzie nor Miss Rose was
there; Mrs. Hoge, whom I saw the last time
that I visited Gen. Ewell, was at home
& had several gentlemen visitors together
Dr. Hoge's brother or her own; I could not tell
which as I did not hear the name distinctly,
not expecting to see any such person; but
I believe that it is the Rev. Dr. Hoge formerly
of N. York. Mrs. Hoge is a very kind and
agreeable lady.
The weather is quite cold and clear at the
present time altho' I rather expected a snow
or hail or rain tonight as it has not
done either since Tuesday. I am very
well my dearest wife and only want your
society & that of my children & grand children
to be entirely comfortable. Best love to all of
them and a thousand kisses to my darlings.
Kindest regards to Mr. Wilmer; also to our
friends. It is late & my paper is nearly
exhausted so I bid you good night my
dearest wife until next time. I hope to get a
letter from you this week. Your R.S.
Remember me to the servants.
Mrs. Saunders. I have not heard from Bob; have you?
visit altho' neither Lizzie nor Miss Rose was
there; Mrs. Hoge, whom I saw the last time
that I visited Gen. Ewell, was at home
& had several gentlemen visitors together
Dr. Hoge's brother or her own; I could not tell
which as I did not hear the name distinctly,
not expecting to see any such person; but
I believe that it is the Rev. Dr. Hoge formerly
of N. York. Mrs. Hoge is a very kind and
agreeable lady.
The weather is quite cold and clear at the
present time altho' I rather expected a snow
or hail or rain tonight as it has not
done either since Tuesday. I am very
well my dearest wife and only want your
society & that of my children & grand children
to be entirely comfortable. Best love to all of
them and a thousand kisses to my darlings.
Kindest regards to Mr. Wilmer; also to our
friends. It is late & my paper is nearly
exhausted so I bid you good night my
dearest wife until next time. I hope to get a
letter from you this week. Your R.S.
Remember me to the servants.
Mrs. Saunders. I have not heard from Bob; have you?