April the 10 1861 Dear brother and Sisters i take this present opertunity to wright you a fiew lines to let you no we are all well at the present time hopeing when those fiew lines come to hand they may find you all well . well girls it has bin a long time sins i saw you i hav saw a grate many ups andouns since i saw you last well Julia i hav bin at paps a week since you have bin go i was there to weeks befor grandfather Dide and i haven been there since i was redy to go last s Saturday and it rained all day and we was all mad because we dident get to go to paps i donte no when i will go now for oure family has increased so fast that i dont know when i will get to leave home we had to babys come to our house last Saturday night but one is ded but they was not my babys they was kid mules well Julia you ought to be here to helpe Jane and me laught at lis act she can act fool th she is a fool of the for she can act the fool as big as ever you oght to bin here last night to a tor tormented lis like we did you for / she has got the fatest bough you ever saw hen ses his fase looks like a fat babys ass well i must tell you a litle about Jane and her [?] he com a Saturday eavning and slepte all night and went to Sunday school with her well girls i must bring my scribblins to a close and let lis finish well girls if you cant read this leter fetch it back and i will read it for you farewell wrigh as soon as you get this leter and tell me whithe you can read it or not  william            W. F. S. A. F.

                                                P. A. H. duck

From Elizabeth Naugle                       Naugle

 

Dear Julie do you know what you told Marton to tell me I would like to see you a gain well we hav got got the best sabath school there was in our neigber-hood well now as duck told you a bout my fat bough he is the seetest man ever i saye his name is poley-boss well Julie I wish you was here to go with me to singing next Sunday and i know you could get the prettys bough you ever had in your life my love was sick with the feaver and i though he never get well but he got well a gain I saw your bill cobble last week and he look like he would like to see Julie he was on high Parker house at work like a pretty boy well Julie I want you to wright to me as soon as you get these scribbalings no more at the present time Lis Naugle            Mis Julie A Hubeard

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