No 44  Cottage Home, Iowa  Monday Morning, Oct 10th /64  Dear Husband  It is but a few days since I wrote you, and I have not heard from you by letter since the 15th of Sept, yet whenever I have a moment of leisure I feel like giving it to you, Libbie has taken my place at the wash-tub, and I have run into the parlor to write a few lines.  We are all enjoying our usual health, especially myself.  Yesterday Emma and I went to Desmoines in the buggy, I to our own church, I had been in the house but a few minutes when Bro Nash came 'round and shook hands with me in his hearty, friendly way.  He preached from Zach 6.4., the best sermon I have heard since I left last spring, after meeting I saw and spoke to a number of friends, but did not stop to dinner, as there was to be a lecture in the evening at Rising Sun, on the Subject of the Orphans Home, I presume you have seen accounts of the enterprise in the Register.  It looks to the support and education of the orpans of Iowa Soldiers;  We were all so much pleased with the lecture and lecturer, he was very young, did not appear to be older than 22; he went into the army under the first three years call, as a private, was promoted to Adjutant;  His address was so interesting throughout delivered with so much ease, and such plain, good language, Subscriptions were solicited, according to the
