october the 24 1863

 

i want you to send me a box i want a pair of boots a pair of nines i doant want a very havy pair | i want a litl pair of gloves | 2 pounds of that smoking tobacco | 2 pounds of good plug tobacco | 1 pound of tea | about as much butter as you sent before | 4 pounds of chees | some drid apple | 4 pounds of maple shugar | 2 bottles of pain killer | a few good apples to eat | a few sassages | a good big lofe of rye and ingen bread that other sweet bake tasted so good i want a nother | send some biskets | git a doesen of eggs and boil them put them in something so they wont git al jamd up | send me 2 quarts of chesnuts i cant git eny such things here to eat | some gum 

 

Send a few nut cakes | if you send eny pyes put them in something by them selves so they wont git jamd up and git al over the other stuf | a few bookes | send a half a pound of pepermint drops | Send me 2 quarts of good alchohall i want it good to then i can reduce it my self send  a 2 quart jar full let it hold what it will Make a good stout box so it wont git broke open on the way put the jar in a bag and put the dride apple in with it and put it in the bottom of the box and put some other stuf over it so they cant see it for they open al the boxes here to see if there is clothing in them there has a lot had their clos come in boxes then they put them on and run away that is al the open them for 

 

send me about twenty of catain webs big onions | send a lof of wheat bred | send a pound of brown shugar to sweten my rum with | send a swetend johney cake | send a cotton hankichef | a stick of lickrish | i want a box of Clows columbian pills | if hos redish is good grate up a little bottle ful and put that in | put the butter in such a little pail as you did before that will hold enough | i want about twenty good apples i haint had but three little narley things this fal then i had to pay five cents apees for them Send a smal codfish if Mis nap has got eny pickels git a few and send them | I ges you can git the maple shugar to the duchmans i want a 2 quart cag of oysters and a box of good / black peper I want you to send the box as soon as you can git it redy doant put eny thing in it that is warm it is giting to be cold and mudy and i want my boots we have got dun marching send it as soon as you can

 

So Good B from

            George Camp

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