Providence May 8^th 1864

 

Dear Farther I know you are anxiously waiting to hear from home I received your letter last week and have been so busy I could not answer it. you will want to know what I have been so busy about well I will tell you. four days last week I had work and you know I had one dollar a day. dont you think that is pretty good for a begining. I have been home six weeks and have been busy all the time with things home. why Farther there is a nough for lizzie and me to do home without going out such children for wearing clothes you never saw. Farther I must tell you some thing Mr Blodget has done some time after I came home liny and I went out to the bank and Mr Blodget he commenced talking about sewing machines and what do you think he done he had one sent up that very day and told me in the bank if I did not consent to take it he should feel vary much displeased. he wanted me to take it and if we two found we could not pay for it he would sell it we are going to pay for it all together. Farther do you think we done right in consenting to take it tell me plainly what you think I well can bare to take any such thing untill I can pay all. Farther how I wish this horrid war was over and you and erny was home again to me it is vary lonesome here I can not tell any thing to others as I could to you and some times I want to talk to you so bad I dont know what to do. When you come home then I shall feel better and have some thing to make feel happy all I want is you and erny I will work all the to make you pleased. hurry up and come Farther you do not know how uncles death has affected me I long for something higher. I want some body to tell my feelings to and cannot tell them to nobody as well as you. I hope when you come back you will find me a noble and better girl. I want to be so and am are trying. how is erny tell him I do wish he would think some times of me and answer my letters three or four letters now he has not answered one Farther you must not think I thought you had forgotten me when I wrote that letter but I felt so bad for I had / written five letters and had not heard one word from you. what do you think of Mother's picture, good I think. Mother has grown thin I think well farther you wanted to know who how I got along that dress Mother has on is some of my making and so is liny dress and cloak. lizzie cloak I made also but her machine done almost of that look at them carefuly and tell me what you think is wrong about them. What do you think of my writting on such paper. think I might get a smaller sheet if you do just say so and you know thoes little sheets dont hold as much. I got this out of one of your books and think it had better be used. Farther I think I am writting you a long letter and am fraid it will not be vary interesting do not let me take you away from the others letters for they will please you better for they can write letters better than I it take you so long to make mine out that I should leave it for the last one. I am writting first so I should be last. first last and last first you know is the old saying Farther tell me all about erny how he looks and if he is is any taller for if he is I shall have no beau when he comes home, he will be so tall I shall have to delly. does erny smoke just like his farther I suppose he does just to keep company I dont care how much he smokes if he will only let drink alone if I only had wings how I could fly and peep in at you when you read this and wonder how I look well I will tell you I am the same short fatty I all ways was and I am glad of it I dont care if I am short I got a Farther that thinks I am just about right ant that so. say farther do I look any thing like that short ful cousin of yours in germany your uncle wanted you to marry, if so you would have made a handsome couple. O Farther del is coming in and I had almost forgot it please write to her when she comes for you know she will be one of the famly then. Aunty has got five boarders and I am glad of it well I must stop and write to erny. I will write next sunday if not before

                                               

And now good by untill next Sunday

God watch over you and bring

you home to your daughter that love you

Dearly Maggie

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