April 2, 1865

April 2, 1865

 Letter from Sarah E. Andrews to James A. Andrews, April 2, 1865
Hudson, Wis.

April 2nd, 1865

No. 65

My Dear Brother Jimmie,

Here I am seated again at the writing table, trying to transfer my thoughts upon paper for your private reading.

I have been to church and Sabbath school today, and as usual feel somewhat tired. Mr. K[e]eley preached today for the first time since he was sick. He will not be able to preach again today. The Congregationalist have hired Mr. Jones and Mrs. Partridge to sing for them the coming year. We shall have to depend upon our own choir for singing in the future.

I wish I could step into Charlie and your tents this afternoon and have a good long chat with you. I rather imagine you would both like it. It will be some time before we can have such a talk. Our conversation will have to be carried on in this silent way six months with you and a long year with Charlie unless Uncle Sam should think he did not need you so long. If he should come to that conclusion I should be very much pleased for one.

We have not had a letter from Charlie since Thursday. We feel very anxious indeed about him. He has done very well indeed about writing home. We had three letters from you yesterday. I must answer some of your questions first. Do we get tired reading your letters? No, indeed, you would not ask such a question if you knew how many times every letter was read and reread. 2nd. Is it at all inconvenient for us to send you your weekly allowance? No. I am afraid sometimes we do not send enough and have been going to ask you if we did, but have forgotten to do so. In the place of postage stamps today we will have to send an extra quarter. Mr. Seymour could not spare but a few stamps yesterday. As to it being any trouble for us to send the other things we are very glad to do all we can for you. I wish we could do more. All send love.

Write soon and often to your

Sister Sarah E. Andrews.

I wish you would write to Mell as soon as you know his address; see if he can not find some easy position for Charlie.