Tamworth Sept the 22 1861

 

Sister Amanda

We received your letter &c. and was very glad to hear from you That you was not home sick &c. We are all well & hearty hear in the house. Grandsire is up and around. 4 or 5 dayes ago he said he could not get up to save his life, but Father went in and got him up and out in the kitchen, and he has got up every day since and been out doores two or three times. you wanted to know how Sarah & Emily was geting a long the former is not quight so well as she was when you went away. the latter is some better have some hopes of her. I was up to Isiah H. Wiggins to a Party / last Thursday night had a first rate time Harrison Bickford has enlisted in the 5^th NH Regiment of Varlenteers. There is a fellow up in Tamworth that wants to enlist by the name of R. F. Twombly Esq. but his father will not let him so there now. Bill Gardner has Posted you in the County Paper the Granite State news. he states that you left his bed & board Ah! indeed Mr. Gardner Esq. You dont say so now realy. do you tell that as a fact. Well if that dont beat the Marster. Who would of thought Mr. Gardner that a gentleman of your cloth could tell such a whoper I will send you a true copy of the advertisement dont cry if you do Ill—

 

I am a watching the cattle / now adays I have got to go up in the parsture now gor blast it to blastation how the steers ran down my cheeks. I cant write any more now. yes I will you dont get rid of me so easy now; I want you to kiss little Fredy & Flora & the baby for me, as for Miss Emma I can kiss her for my self when I see her.

 

Wall I have got to go up on the pasture now how mad I am, no I wont either. (I laid speachless 40 days & 40 nights a crying for cold water cold water, I did not expect to live from one end to the other. I expected that every minute would be the next amen). I have got to go up in the pasture now thats a fact 

 

Amanda get me a place to work and I will come done to Boston imeadeatly if not sooner I cant stop to write any more now so good bye for the present give my love to all the folks down to Boston

                                               

Yours &c

R. F. Twombly Esq

Tamworth N.H.

 

Mis Rosamond A. Gardner

            Boston

                        Mass

 

P.S. Pleas give this note with my best respects to Miss Emma Wiggin

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