Oswego Illinois

Sunday Eve – May 8^th 65

N^o 99

 

Dear Oliver,

I received a letter from you the 5^th but as I sent you one the day before I thought I would not answer it right away. It was dated April 19^th, so the one you wrote the 9^th I have not got which accounts for my not hearing from you in so long. I was afraid you was sick, but I am glad it was not so. It is reported here that most all of Sherman's army is to be mustered out of the service. If it is true I will not have to write you many more letters. I think, I have done pretty well, for one more will make a hundred since I commenced numbering them. I am not going to / send you any more stamps at present for if you are coming home soon, you must have enough to last you, and if you should not get my letters there will not be so many to lose. I have written one letter before to night & it is getting late so I will have to go to bed. Monday morn—

 

            It is not so pleasant this morning as it was yesterday for it is cloudy and looked so much like rain when I first got up, that I put off my washing. It was very pleasant yesterday and last night. Uncle Theodore came down yesterday to see Doc, and Mother & Charly went home with him, so we are alone again this week. Mr Cowan was in here last evening and said Sherman's / army is marching towards Alexandria, to be mustered out. I hope it is true. if it is, you will be home in three or four weeks at the most. If you are paid off, I think you had better send your money home by express than to run the risk of bringing it home yourself. There are so many ways contrived to rob persons now, that it is not safe for any one to carry it. Almost every paper gives account of robberys committed in Chicago, and other places are just as bad. What good times we will have when you get home. The children have grown so, you will hardly know them, but they think they will know you. Clarence knows every body he sees, so of course he will know you. He is just about as busy as ever. Poor Ed I often think how he used to laugh at his pranks /

 

            I have no news to write for there is nothing going on in this town that I know anything about. I have not seen any of the papers last week so I do not know what is in them only what I have been told. The conspiracy at Washington is coming more to light, but I suppose you hear such news sooner than you can hear it from me. I have not seen Hugh lately so I know nothing about Ann at present. Mother's health is about the same. James is in Aurora. He was at work in a bakery & I suppose he is there yet. Last week Chauncey was at work for Jo Failing. Charles works at painting in Aurora. I have nothing more to write this time.

 

So good bye

From Yours,

Mollie C S

To Oliver Shibly                                             

 

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I will put a sprig of forget-me not in this. I set it out 11 or 12 years ago this spring, and think they are pretty

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