Letter from Pinopolis, September 9, 1862 — continued (page 2)

Continuation of the multi-page handwritten letter, in the same blue/grey ink and hand as the previous scan.

enjoying herself — I have not written to you since I got your note at Walhalla — I hope you will not have to come to Charleston unless Peace is declared for you would be very uncomfortable — I dread to think of another move, far from yours, but it seems inevitable from present appearances — Mother writes me that Father still refuses to see the danger of an attack on Charleston — Tell Seaman that Lewis says he must come down here, he wants to play with him — Tell him I am so glad every time I hear he is a good boy — Tell the boys I saw Daddy Essex at Whitehall & that all the negros ask how they are & want to see them — I long to see them all — I can imagine how Huger must have been looking this summer. I got home just in time to attend Uncle Theodore Porcher’s funeral — It was a most distressing illness. His Mother is well but it is a terrible loss to her. She is going up to Pineville to spend a few weeks. Nina Ravenel is in miserable health, she & Hennie are to go to Aiken this week, it always benefits Nina very much. I got a letter from Cous Rembert dated Charlottesville Va. She seems in excellent spirits & very comfortably fixed. Dr. Rembert has charge of three Hospitals — I hear that they have since been moved to Richmond — I have not heard from the Kings for some time — poor Ellen, her probation seems a weary one — so often disappointed — My letter is very uninteresting but there is really nothing to write of except the war news & that you hear more of than we do — I am afraid you did not get all the letters we wrote you this summer for I hear you were often a long time without letters — Thursday was the day we got to Walhalla & I wrote you that day, & then every Wednesday one or other wrote, generally to send you Tody’s letter with ours — Kiss the boys for me & [continues]