...with out any coat or else an old raged one of dirty gray or nasty snuff colour but their dres is beyond description I will not try any farther to describe it I got the 9 stamps and the 2 that you sent me but the letter that Mr Reynolds sent I have not yet got the papers the sent I have got I will send you some wild peas that have grown and got ripe this spring already I shall if I can get a lot of seeds this summer and put them in a box and send them home to you and Reynolds

 

In regard to that matter with Old Jesse Owen I want you to let Mr Reynolds take it and sue him just as soon as as possible and also get that that is due yet from Jacob Taylor do not give either of them one cent to save them from the poor house or from starving I shall write a letter to some one there tell who ever I write to tell / Jesse of it before a whole housefull and expose him all that they can

 

I shall send Father a paper at the same time that I do this letter the papers that I am sending some has the account of the battles in where our boys were although the 160^th is not spoken of seperately

 

            I send you a confederate bill and frank a 10 cent shin plaster that I had

 

            the amount of Bill Rushes note was $2.50 cents and the interest make him pay it all every cent he promised me that he would not charge any thing for collecting

 

            Send Reynolds to Bill Cookingham and get that wheat he owes me or else sue him Rube Hartman saw him sign the note

                                                                       

but I must stop for this time

                                                                       

write soon and often

L. V. Tucker

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