No 25.  Rossville, Ill, April 27th /64  Wednesday Morn, 8 O'clock  My own dear Husband;
 Yours of the 23rd of March is before me; I have read it four or five times already, and shant promise how many more times I will read befor I get another; it is just a week ago today since I received it, and would have answered it before this, but we have but one regular mail a week here; and consequently can't send out letters only one day in the week (Thursday) without some one happens to be going to Danville that we can send by but they say in the summer when the roads are good there are more persons going down to D. the P.M. there, often send the mail up between mail days, by any one that he considers responsible.  But I cant complain of Uncle Sam for keeping my mail very long on the way since I have been here, for I got four letters from you in three weeks, and they had to be remailed at Desmoines too; when you begin to address me here, I will get them sooner than at DesMoines, for the reason that they will come nearly here by Rail.  Rossville is a little town of about 1,50 inhabitants, situated near the North Fork of Vermillion river;
