Fair Fax Station Va Jan 11^th 1863

Dear and most beloved wife

I now seat myself to answer your letter of the 3th & 4^th of Jan which I received last Thursday Night and was glad to hear that you are all well with the exception of the boys hard colds and hope those will not prove to be any thing searious it found me well first rate and still remaine the same and hope when this reaches you it will find you all enjoying the same great blessing  there has nothing worthy of note transpired here since I last wrote to you; we had a very rainy afternoon and night yesterday and last night it cleared off in the night was quite pleasant this morning but now it looks as if we should have some more rain before long; enclosed in this letter you will find an order for the sum of ten dollars which is the second ten of my bounty from the State of Connecticut; as you are owing Mr Sisson if he will take it and give you credit for it you may let him have it if not you will have to send it to New Haven get Mr Worthington to send it for you as he will know better how to manage it than you will; wall Lucinda some of the news from home in your last letter or rather in Georgias was what I expected to hear but it took place sooner then I expected  I mean in regard to Bart and Jules getting Married  I think it would have been a god idea if she had waited till her first Husband had got cold before she had married againe but however I supose she knows best about it therefore I presume it is all right if not they probaly will make it right in the morning; when I commenced reading your last letter I thought you had improved very much boath in writing and spelling but before I finished it I found that our and my own darling daughter Ella G had the honor of performing the penmanship of the said article and not my own dear Wife Lucinda;  not that I wish to say any thing against your writing Lucinda; but I want to give Georgia the praise of being a good writer if she is a mine to take a little pains so I hope she will try and improve all of her time writing and studying to get a good education while she has an opportunity  how dose Edgar get along to school this winter  can you write any yet  I should like to have you write me a letter  I think you are old enough to write pretty well by this time and I hope you are trying to learn fast this winter for you must remember that now is the time for you to get an education while you are young for it will be but a few years if you live before you will be to old to go to school then how you would feel and appear to go out into the world for yourself without an education evrybody would laugh at you then and how do you suppose you dear Father would feel to have his oldest son in such a bad predicament, now wont you Edgar try and learn your books to school this winter write and tell me,  Lucinda you may send me my mittens by mail doe them up in a snug bundle in a good piece of paper past on a peice to direct them on direct the same as you do my letters the postage may be somewhare about thirty cents however they will tell you about that to Sissons no more at this time  From Your Husband and Father A.C. Smith

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