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Waynesboro
Ga 22nd Aug 1872
My Dear Wife:
Yours from Washington, rec’d yesterday, & was glad to hear
from you & know you had arrived safely and all
well. Tell little Frank it is an old saying‘that it takes a wise man to know
his daddy.’but he ought to have more sense
than not to know the one he has been taught
to know as his daddy. I reckon the little fellow felt like he had been from home &
was returning to it, & expected to meet me
& would not be
disappointed in seeing his
papa. Well, kiss him and the other two for me. I answered Palmer’s letter, & sent him a
$1= as requested. Hope he has rec’d it. Tell him to write again make him write two letters a week;
it will improve him in writing &
composition. I think he has improved some, though
his letter to me was not as to spelling
very credi-table – And yet it was passable for
his age – I gave your love to Mrs. W&H,
& they returned theirs of course. They are all well [ ] Doc’t says he is busy, going every
day, &
that a good deal of sickness of a
mild from[form] prevails. – Nothing new at all – Politics getting hot – Hydrophobia in the form of politics is abroad –
I never saw so many aspirants for office,
both for state, federal, &
county. I see Gen DuBose is a candidate for reelection. Tell him if you meet with him, that though I
am a foreigner now, being in another
district, if he knows of any way I can help, or be of service to
him, to write me & I will not fail
him – Give love to all – I want to come
up a day, or so, before you leave if
possible My fish pond is about half done – Accept my whole love – Aff husband Fes
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