No 26  Rossville Vermillion Co., Ill.  Wednesday Morning May 4th /64  My Dear Husband  Yours of March 29th was recd last week, remailed from Des Moines, I am getting impatient to hear that you know where you wife has taken up her abode; tomorrow is mail day and think I will surely get a letter direct from the army; You had not got a letter from me for a good while when you wrote, I assure you that I can sympathize in such disappointments; and in the other matter of failing to get all your money but perhaps the latter is more of selfishness, than true sympathy. I am very much obliged to you for the 'V, ou sent me and although I have already supplied myself with a pen and holder I shall nevertheless consider it a present from my husband, but about sending for the Phenological Journal I hardly know what to do, not that I don't appreciate your kind offer, but I will not be here all summer, and the address would have to be changed, but as you so much wished to have me send for it, I guess I will and risk getting it; and I'll endeavor not to disappoint you in improving by its lessons on the various "ology"s. I am real sorry that you could not get a suit of clothes if you could get along without till you come North, which I hope will be soon, you could probably get them a good deal cheaper, and get a better fit too; but do as seems best but mind you, do you take good care of them, for when you come home I want you to look very nice My
