Jan 19^th/65

Marine U.S.A Gen Hospital N. Orleans L'a

 

            Dear Wife

                                    I will keep on writing to you in hopes that I may get an answer to some of my letters after a while even if I do not write anything of importance. So I will write you a short letter again to night as the mail leaves here for New York on Saturday morning

 

            My health still keeps good and my appetite does not fail much, so I think that the prospect is still fair before me. But my spirits is at or below par for it is a mystery to me that I cannot solve why I do not get any letters from you. I have been gone from home now almost two months and have not heard one word from any of you there. the only explanation that I can give it is that you must be / sick & unable to write or I should have heard from you before this. But then again I think that if you were sick that Mother or some one there would have written before this so the mystery still remains unexplained. My not hearing from you I have written to Mrs Heath & also to Ti Lusk to see if I could find out how you are and to morrow I think that I shall write to Mr Cook and Mr Reynolds being in hopes that among some of them I may hear from you. I cannot help thinking of you nearly all of the time for it seems so strange that I do not hear from you before I went home I got a letter every week & now none in two months But I will still live in hopes that the next mail will bring me the long looked for and ever welcome letter

 

But how are you getting along this winter yet I dare not hardly ask / the question for it must be very hard to get along without anything to do with. Oh if I could only have been paid when I first got back here you might have had some money now so that you could have made yourself comfortable but that was not to be it seems as if every thing was against me to keep me back from prosperity & comfort. No money to send home and no letters from home, and then to know that you must be suffering for the want of what is my due it makes me feel sad and downhearted and as if I was forsaken

 

            But I shall have to stop writing for I cannot keep down my feeling and can hardly see my paper to tell what I am writing

 

Write to me as soon as possible do. I will send you some money as soon as I can get hold of it                                                 

 

Yours as Ever

L. V. Tucker

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