Washington D C

                                                                         Feb 19^th 1865   

 

My Dear Agnes

 

            this beautiful sabbath afternoon I take the pleasure to answer your very welcome letter which I received on friday I am always anxious to hear from you but of late I have become much more so and can hardly content my self from the time I write until I receive an answer from you. and your last I have read with much interest and I am very happy to learn that your mother intends making her home with us the first year of our marriage and I hope after that one year is spent with us that she will find our home a pleasant one and will make it her home as long as she lives. you are very kind Dear Agnes in/offering your aid to help me out of trouble this comeing spring. I hardly know how to overcome the difficulty but I will not meet trouble half way and will patiently await the time of my payment and then meet it if I can. I will have to pay on the 1^st of april or soon after $350 Dollars $150 I have saved during this winter or will by the 1^st of april and $200 I will be obliged to borrow. but I think I will have no trouble to get it. but as this is no day to talk of earthly business I will say no more and patiently wait. I am in good health and what more can I wish for but am very sorry to learn that you were not well when you finished your last to me I hope by the time you receive this you may be well and happy. we will soon meet again Dear Agnes if we are spared and I trust our meeting will be a pleasant one to each of us. there is not a day passes but I think of you and long for the/time of our union.

 

you wished to know if I would object to you writing to Mr. Winters your friend. you are truly welcome to correspond with him. I think it is a privilage which evry person should have and as he is in the army I know how much more he will appreciate your kindness in writing to him. Dear Agnes as I have no news of any importance I will not write much more if your mother does sell let me know as soon as you can so I can make arrangement to suit our future I close by sending my love to one and all from your true and affectionate lover

 

                                                F. C. Miller

                                                            to Agnes

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