William Wirt Henry to Mary Jane Henry
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I recd. yours of the 17th yesterday. I have not got time to answer it now but
will write you a good long letter Sunday if I can get time. I am kept very
buisey now all the time. have got me a good nice bay horse. have to ride about
fifteen miles a day to visit all my Pickets. we are all getting along very
nicely. Capt Dillingham is getting fat. his boys are all very healthy and they
think every thing of Ed. George does better than I thought he would, but he was
very much disapointed when the last mail came up from the city, to find he had
no letter. he burst out crying, and said he thought Mother might have written him if no one else, tell her
write him often if only a few lines for it will do him good. Tell that good
little girl Katie Parker she may be my sister I do not
know why you do not like her better. I think she is one of the sweetest and best
little girls left since my good sister Katie has gone. I
wish you would send me her long letter she wrote you. It does me good, and makes
me better to know that such good girls love and respect
me and that I have their confidence. I believe she is good. I know Mr and Mrs
Parker will be very good friends and nicer to you. it is good to have such people for friends, I feel when trouble comes. I am
glad all were so kind to you - the mail is about to leave
and I must close.
As ever your loving husbandWilliam
We are in the same place as when I wrote you last.