Fort Cass Va Feb 29^th/64

 

Farther and Mother Sister and Brother it is with plasure that I wright to you to lett you no that I am well I got a letter from you to night and was very glad to hear from you you said that you had ben to canady and just got homb you said that you had swaped horses with uncal sted I want you to git him well brock by the timb that I git homb for I shell want to wrid som for i hant sean a chanc for a long / to wrid in a wagon for a long timb and now it is 3 years and that aint long mother send me som black thread Mat you send me a acais with your picture in it on one sid and hav one taken from that one that I sent homb of Angies you hav one of yourn and put one of yours in one sid and one of hern in the other hav one of them 50 sent picture fraims send it by mail did you git that drawing of that fort beat is ent you send the bango dont send the box put it in a box / send me a hunck of mapal sugar and send what you ar a mand to I shall send 50.00 dollars homb when we git paid we was mustard to day and shall git paid in a bout a month Ben send a lot of strings awl kinds send the bango as soon as you git this for I want it git Georg Fornams send me a pair of [?] for my britches will fall of send me a bibal and I will wread it through send my bango soon I will wright to franck to morow / fraim that picture well for it is nice aint it how ar awl the folks in St Johnsbury

 

that is awl

send me awl you

ar amind to in

the box

this from

W^m Harvey

old Va

I am fat and

Lazy

 

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hear is a picture of a boy that caim from Johnsbury he speak with me his name is William Crain

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