September the 18

 

dear Sister i seat my self to drop you a few lins to let you no that we are all a living an well an i hop these lins will find you all well an doing well i received a leter from you som time ago an thought i wod hav rot long a go but i was loking for isaac but i hav looked in vane he hasent com yet an if all reports is tru he will not com the wur is that he has got a wife an child an som say that she is a negro i dont no how it is i got a leter 2 weaks a go he sed he had not bin well sinc last spring he sed he mit come home to stay a week or two if his health got beter he sed him an ben Smith had set up grocre grocery then he sed he wod comenc work to marow at 40 dolars a month So you can see tha is something rong but i dont no how it is i hant got but two leters sinc july in the two last he sed for me to mak up my mind to mov down thare my mind is mad up to stay a way from thare til i no more a bout som things i never will kiss eny body foot for ther frenship if he cant com home lik a man an treat me lik i was a human he can stay i hav got as meny frends as eny body tha sa just let him go i shant sufer that is james Batys advice So i will close i i will do beter next time rit soon i will do the sam when my mind gets beter satesfid

 

Syntha minick to rity an Sanders

 

            tel me all a bout the boys /

 

September the aight hent

 

My der aunt i tak my pen in hand to let you no that i am well and i hop that those lins may find you well and doing well i dont want you to think hard of me for fornot riting to you i neglected riting to you but icnd tel you nor the you wod like to her pap has bin discharg 12 munts and has not com home yet and all come home but him and ben smith mason baty is ded and [?] and milton [?] is on and he is at indioples [?] soo great to me you sedth you wantd me to tel you whether i rot to eney solger i rot to my pap that soll the solger that i rit i want you to rit me along lter letr rite me a long leter i hav noth of eney thing of eney importenc

 

            and sgoo by

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