Marine Hospital New Orleans L'a Jun 21^st

 

            Dear Wife

                        Although it was but yesterday that I mailed you a letter yet I will write a little again to night although I have not much to write so it will not take long to write it. I was glad to get your letter yesterday for I felt very lonesome and the hearing that you were all well cheered me up and I felt better after reading it. Yet when I read of the ten dollars tax that you had to pay it grieved me think that I had no money to send you to help you out and cannot tell when I shall get for there does not seem to be any more prospect of pay now than there was two weeks ago. I managed to get one dollar and send to you in my letter yesterday and if it is possible to get any more I will get it and send it to you as soon as possible Even though I get but a little at a time to send you yet it will help you some

 

            I commenced this about sun down and wrote a little and then left it for to take a walk with Mr White around the city we started of it began to get dark and have walked some four or five miles around the city and got back before nine Oclock. I went with him to a jewelry shop and from there to the St Marys Marys Market where he bought each of us a good cup of coffee and a half of a custard pie a piece and after eating them started around the city again to see what we could that was interesting we were both armed with loaded revolver to be ready in case of immergency but occasion occurred to use them. I am getting you a breast / pin made which I shall send you probably in my next letter it will be a cheap one (that is cheap to me) but I should not want to sell it for double what it is worth I shall not try to tell you what kind of one it will be, but will leave you to guess I had the material given to me for two and when I showed it to Mr White he said that he would get them both made if I would give him one so I have done it but I am to have my choice of them although they are both alike when you get it if you do not like to wear it you can lay it by until I come home and then I will wear it myself. I shall tell you anything more about it until I send it to you.

 

            Mr Whites wife send me quite a compliment at the time I got his photograph I gave him one of mine and he sent it to his wife and she writes back to him that I look like a man that would be a brother to him in time of need and urges him to bring me home with him and says that I may make it my home with them as long as I want to. I have taken care of mr white some five months while he was sick and it seems as though he was the only real friend that I have here yet I do not know as I have an enemy here anything he can do for me he does cheerfully and willingly

 

            did frank write that on that piece of paper that had the penny in that he sent me if he did he is learning quite fast I will write him a few lines on an Express receipt that I got for that first box that I sent you and try to encourage him to learn      

 

from yours as ever

                       L. V. Tucker

 

but I must stop for                           

                                       

I have scribled this full           write often

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