Camp Beaver Nov 11^th 1862

            Dear Sarah

                        I take my pen at this leasure hour to inform you that I am still engoying good health and I do hope that you and all the rest of the friends are engoying the same when I wrote to you last I forgot to tell you about the 25 cents postage you had to pay for the 10 dollars which I expresed to you when I mailed that letter here I paid the postage at the telegraph office here which was twenty five cents and I took a receipt for the postage After I received your letter stating that Thompson charged you I coled at the office here the Post Master here said that it was Rong for you to pay their and wrote a letter to Thompson to refund the mony back to you please take the enclosed receipt and call on Thompson and if he dose not pay you back let me know and send me back this recept and I will make the express agent pay me here if I send any more letters by express I I will pay the postage here and take a recept and if thy charge you their take a recept for paying the postage and then if thy charge two much we can recover it back The sertifficate you wished me to send to you I have/Also enclose in this letter It will entitle you to draw [    ] mony monthly from the County if thy still pay any and you may as well have your share as not the wether here are now warm and fine for the time a year The snow we had a few days ago has all disapered It still remains sickly here the hospitel is now crouded full with the sick the disease princeply fever Gust Haugh is in the sevet Cr gard house very often he was put in yesterday for getting drunk and has to stay their for a week Jacob Haugh and most of the Brookville boys are all well Capt Marlin has got well again his wife is still here I saw hir to day she told me that you had give hir a bucket of fine peaches when thy ware ripe I think you sold your peaches very low if I had had them here I could have sold every one of them in camp for a cent a piece which would have brought them to about three dollars per bushel frute was plenty here and both apels & peaches sels for a cent a peace write to me scoon and let me know how you and Mary and all the rest are getting along my love to you and all the rest good by for the present

WRodgers to Sarah Rodgers

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