Browse All Letters (392 total)

1 Dayton O. June 21st 1863 Dear Luther, I am still out of bed and feel rather disappointed that it is so. Your letter came yesterday, and I was glad that you did not give up to your want of inclination for writing a short letter (not a poor one, as you said) is better than none. Robby has not seemed quite well and I feared chills, but having…

Dayton O. June 16th. 1863 Dear Luther, It is excessively warm but a letter shall, at least, be begun. Father, *Jere* and Lib, went to Columbus this morning; Mother staid with the children (Lib's) all day, but Mary went to spend the night with them, on my account. We went tonight to see if my nurse was ready, and found her waiting for me. I saw the…

1 Dayton O. June 14th 1863 Dear Husband, It is again a sweet Sabbath morning, and I am sitting by the window in my room; the one shaded by the pear tree. The children have gone with Father to the office, hoping to get a letter from Howard, from whom we have not heard for nearly quite two weeks (a mistake, it was last Sunday). The children have all…

Dayton O. June 10th 1863 Dear Husband, Sella brought me your letter just as a good rain set in. Both letter and rain refreshed me. Day before yesterday Lib took me in her carriage with some of her children, and Father took Mother and our children in the spring wagon, out to Stillwater. We were after ferns and moss with which to ornament the little…

Dayton O. June 7th 1863 You are so constantly in my thoughts this morning, my dear One, that I feel like writing. I aroused earlier than the rest of the family, and lay thinking of you; of our early love, which had increased as years had passed; so sweet were the thoughts that I felt almost as if you were with me indeed, and my heart overflowed…

Dayton O. June 3rd 1863 Dear Luther, Which is it that is to blame for no letter this evening, a mail or a male? Certain it is there is no letter from you dearest, and I came very near having the 'Blues'; but having had an attack last evening I thought it wouldn't do, besides there may be one tomorrow. I am very helpless now, and Mother thinks I…

No. 8. 1. Dayton O. May 31st/63 Dear Luther, Not disappointed again, for your letter came yesterday afternoon. I fear my last was not very satisfactory, as Nannie was going away in the morning, and I felt hurried and confused with that, and the visit at Lib's. The children are all on the upper porch, as it is too wet in the yard to allow them to…

Dayton O. May 27th 1863 Dear Husband, Father brought your dear letter out to *Jere's*, where Nan and I were spending the day with the children. All day long I had been hoping I should not be disappointed but got a little anxious before it came. The children have had a good time generally, with the exception of poor Bessie who has chills. After…

Dear Husband, Two letters came to me last evening, yours of the 20th, and one from Nannie, who is in Cincinnati; she will pass through here her on her way home and wished me to tell her is she should stay a day with us. Mother is quite unable to exert herself and I am unfit for much, still we think we can make her short visit pleasant for her, so I…

Dayton O. May 20th. 1863 Dear Luther, Although I sent off a letter this morning, it seems as if your letter of this evening ought to be answered tonight. You ask me about the bills; I left these all either in your *business* drawer or in the drawer of your trunk. - Anderson was paid up to within a few weeks of my departure His last bill which…