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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-

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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?