Brooklin Center            Feb 25, 1862

 

Dear husband

                                    I received your letter that was writen on the boat to day I have anxiously looked evry mail since you left Camp denison

 

I will now hasten to answer for it takes letters so long to go we are well and get a long as well as I can But it is auful lonesome. poor litle Son says so much about you it make me feel worse But I do all I can to make it pleasant for him I must take new courage now for if wives are true the war will soon have an end and you will be home I shant care how soon for I have to run in the cold all the time for somting Paul dont fech any feed half the time. it wory me all the time. I have had great times cleaning the sellar/again to day the watter come in clear up to the second stare and run in to the potatoes I had to fech them up and dry them wich made a nice job of it But I got them up where they wot trouble me again. I wrote to you all the Particulars last week and sent to Paducah Ky with a paper and a letter in mine from doc stating that his Mother was dead I suppose it was from him. I have wrote to him. I think you will have those by this time you do not say whether Capt Richardson gave you eny letters ane by him with yeors in. I think you must have it very hard by the way you write. I wish Cap would tend to his own business a litle more his litle Beauty has gone home I have not seen Mrs Rich since Mrs Poe and Pert was here yesterday they send theys love to you I told you in the other letter that Ann/to Pauls and Mrs Allen sister was with me she is enough to physick a snipe But I think I can make her smell a stink so she wont run her tounge out so much. I shall look for a letter from you in a day or so telling me more Particulars. tell me how you male the money matter I fear not verry good the war a man here this morning said you ode him for som brick over ten dollars he said he would let you had them if he hand none you would not paid him before this tell me what to do for him. I ask Poe what you wrote he said not much I have let him take that book and got one load of wood on it. I have to hury to write while Bub is a sleep so I do not no how I get it But I mean to get it all in some way. I have not got the things you sent home yet Poe has ben for them But they have/(?) not come how did you send in a Box or bundle I hope they are not lost I shall go and see when I go down I got an order from Gates to day twenty eight dollars But I dont care whether I have a sopha or not the war great times in town saturdy celabreting Washington birth day great luminatin in the eve I went to see Mrs Penhale took old black Poes sleigh Pert and I of we went it was all watter in the road we drove to this sid of the canal bridge hiched old black walked up in to town see the eluppant and started home trying to feel Prety well when we got to the top of the hill by the youngstown road the horse fell flatt broke the fill we hollard and a man come cut the harness lose and got him up ficked evry thing rite and we got home safe But Mrs Penhale and Pert was scart enough so they did not stop to count hairs I guess you wont nevr read this aufulness I wish you would open the door and come in to knight as you did before some times I think as much of you as ever I hope you wont be a way long

 

your affectionate wife CR Browning             good by           kiss            continude

 

I will write soon take good care of yourself write often I have got five dollars yet

I hope you will get that paper it had that good peace in

tell me all when you get thiss and what to do with that waggon

when I get a letter from you I tell Bub it is from Pa he says Pa kiss baby mmmPa

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