1862 October 15 Lynchburg, Va.

[on Southern Telegraph Companies forms]

Received at      Oct 15      1862 at ---------------o'clock,---------minutes,
by telegraph from___Lynchburg    to  Mr. P. B. Cabell Esqr _________

   I take the opportunity of your father going down
t thank you for your good, long, letter & but as
I am busy today I cannot return you the same
I have just bought 17 bushels of salt for  [trops?]
& I tell you, it is awful the way they do charge
I wish you would write to the old man that is to
make the boots & ask him to finish them as soon

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as he can as I have on my last pr now
I wish I could come down & see you all once more but
as that cannot be done you & sister must come up
to Lbg & see me for a while. I have had a very easy
time for the last day or two as it was raining & these
old speculators did not want to expose their precious
bodies.   I hope you will get along fast now with your
farming & if were you would pla sow as large a crop of wheat as
possible & leave tobacco alone.  For if the war continues a year longer wheat

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will be the thing. I am sorry the Corinth affair
turned out so badly but did'nt old Stuart steal a
march on them, write soon to me & give my best love
to sister if she is with you
                                         Yours &c
                                                        Tom Bolling, Jr.

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