Fort Reynolds

Fort Reynolds

Fort Reynolds, VA

Dec 11th/63

Dear Mother

I have been waiting ever since Thanksgiving to hear from you but nary a letter do I get from you, but James and myself recd a box from home two weeks ago tomorrow and we found every thing in good condition and I will assure you that we enjoyed the contents and I only hope that you did not send any thing that you needed. To day another batch of Recruits has reached us and Albert Gardiner was one of the No.

    Enclosed you will find Twenty Dollars. I should have sent it much sooner but I knew that James had sent you the same amount and I was waiting to hear from you but now I have waited a little over three weeks since pay day and I think that it is best to send it along for in three or four weeks more we ought to receive our next pay. The time wears slowly away and the end approaches plainer to view. Tell Sis that I think she is rather slow about replying to my last. I did not commence to write this letter untill the middle of the evening and I shall not have time to fill this sheet.

    I was over to see James last evening and he has some of those Chesnuts left and he gave me some. Tell Sis to tell Jane Roe that I have just got some photographs taken and they are good ones and I am ready to fulfill my promise now by exchanging with her. I should have done so before but these are the first pictures which I have had taken since I saw her. I did not forget my promise to her that I would exchange with her. I am still at work on the barracks. I must close hoping the money in this letter will reach you all safe and before you are pressed for the need of it. I remain your Affectionate Son

George F. Elliott