No 34  
At Austins, April 10th /63 Friday afternoon  
Dear Husband  
It is a week ago today since I wrote you from Desmoines, I have been so busy all the time that I could not even begin a letter to you, but let whatever may happen I will write to you one a week if I am well; I believe that I mentioned in my last that Father had sent me word that there was letters out home for me, they were both from you Nos 25 & 26 written one at Memphis & the other a few days afterwards at Helena about 16 days ago, I feel very anxious to hear from you again, I expect I will not get my letters as soon, or as regularly as I have done.  This is a very warm day & the windiest I have seen for a long time, it is blowing furiously from the south & there is quite a heavy cloud rising in that direction, we are wishing very much for rain, it is over three weeks since it has rained any at all & a great deal of that time has been windy & the ground is very dry & the farmers fear if we don't have rain soon that their wheat crop will be a failure; the up-lands are much dryer than our farms in the bottom, where the wheat has been sown in many places up on the prairie the soil was so loose & dry that it is blowing away & leaving the wheat bare & the birds are taking it.  Stuart finished putting his in, at noon today; just in time if it should rain tonight & I think it surely will, but we have thought thata great many times this spring, the wind goes round the right way for fair weather. 
O' how I wish you were at home farming, or rather I wish there was no cause to call you away, but I do hope this miserable war will end this spring & summer, if it should close that soon & my husband be returned to me, the past will be to me as a dream
