Darlington Ind January the 28

 

                                                                                                                        Dear Jimmie

I this beautiful sabbath morning pick up my pen to let you no that we are all well and we umbly trust that those fiew lines ma find you and brother well and a enjoying youre selvs well O Jim I would love to see you so well this morning and I do hope that I will see you before many more monts for I do believe that you will come home this spring on furlow O Jim do come if you can now my dear boy you ma die before youre time is out and then you wont ever get to see youre friends a gan and I never will get to see youre kind face a gan if I new that you would not try to come home I would come to / see you when Mr littamore comes back for I want to see you so bad I think some times that I would give the hole world if it was mine to see you I just no if you wanted to see me half as bad as I want to see you you would come home now if I dident no that you could come I would not beg so hard but I no that you can get a furlow if you will ask for it and I do think you will O I would like for you to come home while you are a solger for I no that you are such a sweet little solger I would be so proud of you I will tell ann and lib that my solger is a comming home and I hope that there boys will come home to but that is there one buisness I hav enough to do to beg for my self but if you dont come I will just think that you hav got some / other woman down ther that you like better than you do Jule now I bet youre nose will stick out when you reede this but you must not get spunky for I was just a jabing but I do want you to come home well I will now tell you a bout the health of youre mother rapers family raper is sick the doctor was to see him a friday and mollie has bin sick for two weeks She was better last thursday when I left ther but I hurd yestardey that she was bed fast a gan and mother was sick two so you see they are a seeing a pritty hard time old raper ant worth a fart he is two lazy to be healthy well Jim I just went out to the gate and asked rapers work hand how the sick folks was this morning and he sed that they was all wors mother isent able / to sit up any Jim wouldent it be funy if she would hav a baby I would not be a bit supprised if that is what the matter if it is I will write and tell you when I find out dar and lil thinks that is what the matter raper is wors this morning he sed that he worried and lifted mother around in bed yestarday and hurt his back O Jim ant it funy the old Jack ant no count is what is the matter mol ant able to sit up much I feel uneasy a bout mol I want you to come home a gan to the first of march if mol livs untill march she is a going to get married and she wants you and brother to come home to her weading well I will close for this time I gues I hav beged you enough to come home pap and I he is her and pap ses for you to come home this spring and by old Joele Urkles farm it is for sail well I will close pray for me & dont for get to come to me write soon Julia to a dear and loving Solger

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