[undecipherable] [Received from State Dept. Nov. 24, 1896. R.P.O. 40181[undecipherable].] [368] Camperthoma near Natchez Mississippi Territory Oct 6^th [undecipherable] [Received from State Dep't. Nov. 24, 1894, R.P.O. 401310.] Dear [undecipherable] In the very first moments [undecipherable] possible for a [undecipherable] [undecipherable] your two favours of the 15^th [undecipherable] [undecipherable] my only the pleasure to acknowledge the affectionate remembrance and the [undecipherable] [undecipherable: friendship?] mother of [undecipherable] and I hope it was [undecipherable] [undecipherable: gratifying?] to my [undecipherable: soul?] — the [undecipherable: reasons?] for which they were intended I [undecipherable] now to these the [undecipherable] and [undecipherable] are better — than common health though the Ohio river and afterwards at this place my situation had more of peace than at Cincinnati as the death of D^r Hodge I mourn for his [undecipherable] [undecipherable] his numerous admiring acquaintances, my [undecipherable] [undecipherable] community as [undecipherable] — It is not [undecipherable] my [undecipherable: friends?] any [undecipherable] the my best [undecipherable] 'en militaire' — have every those [undecipherable] with [undecipherable] dispatch and [undecipherable] but express a wish for the old regimental [undecipherable] life were gone and when you were good enough to let me you would send to London to be resupplied [undecipherable] I have troublesome to you, I can't be [undecipherable], without [undecipherable] some Friend in Philadelphia I must want many of the necessaries as well as conveniences of life — mention this country, or Orleans offered them — they they have [undecipherable] been had and dear, I have been a good two years — Their money for some few degrees of [undecipherable] [undecipherable] living is beyond [undecipherable] comprehension Extravagant [undecipherable] experience I apprehend [undecipherable] [undecipherable] constrained to quit the [undecipherable] from [undecipherable] [undecipherable] Considerations — many of the Inhabitants of this country are wealthy [undecipherable], and the Style of [undecipherable] they of [undecipherable] [undecipherable] week very expensive I scarcely believe mine would Exceeded [undecipherable] Dollar a year with the [undecipherable: practice?] of [undecipherable] the Economy I [undecipherable: have?] [undecipherable: adopted?] — [undecipherable] my friend you would make me a State[undecipherable: ment?] [undecipherable] of my affairs before I am too far gone — [undecipherable] since I heard from you upon this and [undecipherable] accompan[undecipherable] one by the [undecipherable: Bill?] [undecipherable] very [undecipherable: extraordinary?] but [undecipherable] informs me that [undecipherable] Dollars [undecipherable] omitted your [undecipherable] in his Accounts have been appropriated for my [undecipherable: use?] I am glad of it and believe you more [undecipherable] than [undecipherable: myself?] — I have written you my [undecipherable: friend?] for [undecipherable] all [undecipherable] to be ^rising and Clothing for myself and Servants I hope you [undecipherable: will?] be good enough [undecipherable] me Linnen and Woolen, and [undecipherable] [undecipherable] there are monstrously high — a [undecipherable] [undecipherable] might be put of [undecipherable] For us — I want very much [undecipherable] of good Linnen — The [undecipherable] [undecipherable: Glasses?] are [undecipherable] [undecipherable] — who ever packed them [undecipherable] [undecipherable] they [undecipherable: could?] bear only transportation [undecipherable] [undecipherable] — the Plates were very [undecipherable: thin?] the backs (which I have never before [undecipherable] in our own [undecipherable: Mirror?] of Paper and the [undecipherable] or air against them [undecipherable: suspended?] in an open room I think would have been their Destruction — I was in hopes they would have been packed [undecipherable] there is [undecipherable] [undecipherable] I am apprehension is too far I hear no-thing of it — For the Lord [undecipherable] send me some good things or I shall suffer — very, very much do I want good [undecipherable] — affectionately your Friend [undecipherable signature] be good enough to send me a [undecipherable: pair?] of [undecipherable] hundred [undecipherable] [undecipherable] up and [undecipherable] behind so as to prevent [undecipherable: Tearing?] the [undecipherable: Petticoats?] &c of my Female Friends here —