Nashvill May 19^th/63

 

            For Mrs N. Warren:

 

            Dear wife I love to spend,

            A part of every day,

            In writeing now and then

            To you while far away

 

            I love to call to mind,

            The happy hours thats gone.

            Though rappidly I find

            That every one have flown.

 

            But very dear to me

            Are the moments that are past

            Beneath our family tree

            But they are gone alas!

 

Numbered with the things that were /

I mean when I sparked you

            I Remember how in youth

            how bloomeing was your cheek

            And filled with childish mirth

            You did my friendship seek

dont you remember that you qut out &

            And it was unto you

            I gave my very heart

            Alas! it is too true,

            Its very hard to be apart.

had to say yes. did not you look sweet

            But now I truly say

            I believe its for the better

            It will surely serve

            To attach us to each other

then I know you Did

            And never more will rise

            A single angry passion [pointing hand]

            Or any thing to mar

            In any form or fashion

am I right Nan? /

            We never will forget

            The many hours so long

            When loved ones so sweet

            Were from each other gone

No we never will let the heat of the

            When a few brief days are gone

            And we again do meet

            You and I will have to own

            Its all so much more sweet

moment carry us away any more

            Then Nancy dry your tears

            And neer get melancholly

            For to grieve it surely is

            But the very higth of folly

Dear woman I expect to come home!

            Let your very heart be glad

            While attending to your cares

            And never more be sad

            But banish all your fears

For I am comeing home some of these days. then youll laugh [pointing hand] Sure /

 

4..Nancy I am disposed to believe that Our being absent from each other will be an advantage to both of us for you nor I ever appreciated how much we were under obligations to each other for we never knew how much we loved until we felt as though we were going to be separated. we never knew how to appreciate each other's society until Now. if you Read Round this ine you may think I am writeing a loveletter Well I dont care what you call it, but I do love Jibby & Ritty & Jack & Manda & that Other one you know who and I believe if I had my hands on Jibby I could tear him up and eat his sweet little body I know you think me childish, and I would like to see "Ma" and all her babies. and I would try and bee the Biggest Baby of the whole lot I am getting tired running round this thing and I expect you will be more tired Reading the simple thing. but you must excuse me it  makes my head swim. Now Nan I must soon close this thing for I will soon have it surrounded and then I will have to stop. I want you to take a big sheet of paper and write me a long interesting letter in answer to this. Now I want you to kiss Jibby & Ritty. Tell me all the news &c. Good By Nan, LC. Warren

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