Handwritten letter (page 2), heavily stained — Mama to her daughter

A handwritten letter, page 2 of multiple, in dark ink on paper. The page is extensively stained and spotted with red, obscuring portions of the middle text. Same hand as the preceding page. A pencilled “113” appears at the lower right.

Tom does not, as I find, like his earliest tooth yet. He was a vacancy & there were several applicants for it. He said to me yesterday, he thought he would go on one of our Gun Boats. But there was no decision — only to talk the matter —. I wrote a few lines on Friday to Clara & your Father to-day to Judge Glover — Hope & patience are what we live on — & so we seem callous to the fearful danger our brave Men are day & Night exposed to — your Father has the promise of a [illegible] but [illegible] [illegible] — Mr Lawton is the agent to sell or let him be kept as long as he is fed. Your Father is much as when I last wrote. Mrs Theodore Jervey is sick of days of Typhoid fever some say — NB heard she had come from Cordesville to the city & her illness of only three days. Frank Campbell is on parole — Mitchel King told me — & of course could not leave the C[ity] or attempt to escape. Mary Crafts[?] was here last week — always ask how Sue is & what does she say — Mr Guie[?] left us last Night — very grave & troubled looking, at the last. Joe came on Friday to take charge of the Crescent[?]. Tom was not well yesterday — had sprained his ankle & was otherwise indisposed [illegible] [illegible] — After your Father had read your last letter he said — write Sis not to bother herself with teaching Grace — just Make her serve[?] herself — I think he felt happy at this relief he was Sending you. Kiss the boys for me — Love to Sis & Self & Kind words to all. Mama your aff[ectionate]

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