Horton: May 6, 1864
Chittenden, Vermont May 6, 1864
Distant Husban it is with the greatest pleasure I now seat my self to answer youres of the 26th whitch I received to day I have received the box that you sent me I should have answerd it before but hav bin wateing to hav my picture taken to send and to day I hav been down and had it taken I will send it in this letter now Ed when you get this picture I guess you wont say enney more about my getting annother chap for you will see by this that I hav grone so homly that a fellow must be a fool to hav anney thing to say to me when there are so menney better loocking ones around I suppose if I laid out evrey sent of my mans wages on my back and flirted my self around the streetes as some do that I know of I should stand a better rite but that isent my stile and if there is enney that dont like my stile here they can take less of it I hav paid Fay and it done me good to fore I think he needs it as bad as enney one could he hadent a decent shirt to his back I tell you Ed they are pretty shiflas I doant know what they will do when they come to hav an addition to there familey and they will ere the corse of seven month if nothing happenes Tomas Hendry and wife are goin to Washington to liv they will start one weeke from next Monday they are a goin to sell there things of(f) at (auction) oure folkes hav got there chaimbers done of this spring they are plowin oure gardin to day and I hav bin to work in the yard I worked till I blisterd my hands and then I had to stop you had a letter the other knight from a young lady I thought I had got a lov letter but ii wass from miss Bowns nease she rote to the post master to know if there wass a familey here by the name of Brown I shode the letter to Dick and he has answerd it I got a stamp by the meanes and if it had bin enney one but hir I hav let hir had it but I thought I wood not let hir hav it you see that I am getting as mean as the best of them and I mean to play my part with them I guiess you thought I was prety rough to go see Smith about yore bounty but I did not go alone youre father went with me and I dont think that uncle Jo ment to go and so I had him go with me to see about it I shall have to close for the want of paper
please excuse this bad righting and right soon oure folkes send there best wishes to you
