Greenfield July the 15 1862

 

My Dear Nan

            It is with much pleasure that I set down to the stand to answer your kind note that I recivd from my kind Nan I was glad to hear from you and to hear that you was well and in good spirets to hear of your many pleasent horseback reids I suppose that you hav got each of you girls a boy to wride along and to keepe you strate I bet you are the best looking girl in the croud I would like to see you on your gray horse if you did not see me I dont hav much time to ride ahorsback or any other way Nan you must train your horse and wride him to the fair I will bet that you can wride do you think that you could wride with out a saddle on I sent aleter up to Aunt Betsy Parker to day [?] I would like to see you and iwould tell you something Nan I would like to go up to Bristol when you would be their but I am sorry to tell you that I cant go for if I would leav evry thing would stop on the farm 

 

Nan I finished sowing my buckwheat to day I sode fifteen achers I soad twelve achers of oats and I planted fourteen achers of corn and I hav got corn that is taller than my head their is a bout three achers of it and I ploud fifteen achers of fallow I am going to sow 36 achers of wheat this fall Nan I hav got anofe work for three hans to do this summer I tell you that it is makeing [?] poor but I can do it if any person can do it dont you think that I can I hav been mowing three days in the hardest place that I ever moad in you wanted to now wheare I spent the fourth well I went down to Sharron there wase to bee a big day their there ware to bee fire works and a balloon to go up but I would not go across the road for to see what there was to see well Nan you ast me if I ware marriad yet well it is hard to tell wheather I am or not The folks says that I am going to be / marriad to a girl that livs in ohio I intend to get marriad when you say yes say wheather you will marry me or not tell me in your next and if you say yes in some futer day we will get not tide you ast me if I looked at them likeness or not I dont no but I think that I look at nancy almost evry day I aint ashamed to let any person look at them Nan if I send you out me bres pin will you get your likeness in it and then send it out to me if you will do it I will weare it evry place that I go and I wont bee a shamed to let any person see it if you will do it I will send you mine in my locket that is if you want it if you will do it write to me as soon as you get this and tell me wheather you will do it if you will I will send it I mean my brespin in the next letter that I write to you Good evning Nan I hav got my buckwheat all in I hav now come in / from work and it is after eight o clock and I hav been harrowing in the rain almost al day and I feal quite tird of it this man says that I am the best han that he ever had there is to bee two weddings in one half of a mile they are coming of next weeke and I think that we will giv them a sernading I took one of the girls up a letter that I got out of the office to day and I think that there wase good nuse in it for she would read and then she would lafe

 

Good morning Nan I commenced to write last evning and my bos came and took the candle from me and told me that he could not keepe me in candles I am going home Satturday nite and then I will get too or three candles of my one this ante half the place that I thought it was I would not of believd that this half the place the folks said that I would not work hear one year I most believ it but I will try and do my part

                                                                                   

Josia Dunlap

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