1862 June 10 Fort Albany

                          Fort Albany,  June 10th /62
                                              4 o'clk PM
         Dear Wife
                 I have just now received
a letter from you, and I like it very
much, I think you were in pretty good
spiritis when you wrote it,  It is just the
kind. We are now having a jollification over
a box of goodies sent to Richard Alley
from Lynn, he being the Capt's servant, and
not being in any "Mess" and being better acqu-
ainted in the mess, and with me, than in
any other, he brought his box right into
my tent, it is a splendid box of goodies,
and the prospect is that now we shall have
a glorious supper, It was got up by a dozen
or more of Lynn, Yesterday, Sylvester Perkins
received a box from home, and in it I
had a Vest, Handk's, Medicine, and a Note
from you, Perkins's box had some very
nice fixings in it, so you see, that for
the last two days, we have had plenty of goodies
I hope they wo'nt  make any of us sick.  We shall risk it, at
any rate-----------

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One souvenir you have sent me in your
dear letter, which, you may be sure, I shall
preserve with the greatest care, and that
is the specimen of writing from Ernie
to Papa, I guess I have read it over about
a half dozen times allready. The idea of
a "four year old" writing a letter, I should
rather have had that, than anything you could
have sent me, except the originators of
it.  You speak about rainy weather, I guess
we have had rainy weather, and plenty of it
lately, it is raining now, and has been, all
day, but we, "within here snug and warm" do'nt
care a darn, if it does rain, so long as we
have got, plenty of goodies for supper.  It
is now about supper time.  I will try and write
again after that has come off.

[Letter from Robert, from Lynn, Mass., and unidentified soldier in the 14th Massacusetts Heavy Artillery, will continue on the 11th.]

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