Florance Mass

Oct 17 1863

 

Friends at homb having timb and a postag stamp I thinck that I would wright a few lines to lett you no that i am well and so is the rest of the boys this present timb one of the boeds giv me 5 sents to go and lock up the searaphim when a fellow was playing the fellow is a dam shit ass that was playing he could play as much as Char[?] Worcks and I toock the 5 cents and went to the store and bot a stamp and a envelope and so icann wright I hav not heard from homb for along timb I guess you hav for gott that you hav got any boys haint you up there I sopose that billie holder caim homb to day benn that knife that you hav got from / John bellknapp you may send in aletter dont you send it by billie for he would kep it I no his gaim you cann send it by mail as well as any way that shirt that you sent me mother I did not no that Ira sent for them if i had i should told him not to sent for me one i haint tried it on yet I will keep it till i comb homb that in strament that you hav got you can do as you are amind if you kep it i will pay part for it and make Ira pay some I haint bin payed yet and gues that ishant never git any money I am pretty nasty and raged in the shop but kep my best clothes my boots leak but I will have a new pair some / timb when the sign is wright I thin that i never shall stop in vermont a grait while to a timb if I hav my health I shall stay hear till the 4orth of July and then I will comb homb and see you them red shirts you may kep I dont want them I gues I guess that I shall git me some I am out in the field laying besid of the corneticut river it is very hot to day it is hoter than it is in the midal of the sumer

 

I do not but you will think that will left of prety short he began to write it up wher he bords but did not finish it an wee was out in the fields an he gave it to mee to finish 

            Mrs

I do not know hardly what to write I have not ben payed of yet but pay day comes in two weaks wee have to work two months befor wee get any pay I shal not have much the first time I did not get but a dollar a day for the first month an a dollar an a half the 2th month an a dollar and 75 after that that is the way I let my self to him so you see that I can do better hear than I can up thair give my respecks to all

Rob an Jason send thair respecks to all          Ira

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