No 13 Cottage Home, Iowa Sabbath Feb. 19th, 1865 Dear Husband We have spent this day quietly at home, it has been quite warm, melting the snow, which feel last Tuesday night, considerably:  A few more days like this will take it all off.  Yesterday evening when -- Stuart came home and said no letter, I felt sadly disappointed as I had thought and said as I often do, that I knew I should get one.  But hope never dims, and I think I'll get one next time. If you were to step in today you would hardly know the place we have moved into the two front rooms; Mary Jane moved her things down to Aunt -- Sarahs yesterday, and I took mine to Ann Deans; and we sent
