CHESTER COVELL'S LETTER TO HIS COUSINS,
LIBBIE & JERUSHA COVELL, IN INDIANA.,
LETTER # 12-.C Vienna Dec the 18,/ 1864

Dear Cousin:-
It is with pleasure that I again take ay pen in hand to write
a few lines to you, I am well at present hoping that these few lines may
find you all the same, I have just returned from N.Y. City,, I have been
away from home seven weeks, I have found my Brother and he has been at
home a few. days he was wounded and taken prisoner he is now on parole.
Lib, I never saw that man you spoke of to know him- ( I would like to see
that pretty sister of his that you spoke of) .but I hardly know what to
say to you in regard to my coming out there this, winter, I have consider-
able work to do for Mother and a good many to visit with here if I can
get around so as to come by the 15th of next month I will come, but if I
do not I shall not come at all Uncle William's'boys has just returned
from the war, have served their time well. Lib you must excuse this short
letter for I have company this evening and I cannot'spend too much time
in writing, ( always something to bother me you see) tell Jerusha that I
read her letter without any trouble and if she had wrote more I could of
read it. I have been trying to buy Uncle a cutter, but such as I could
use to get for $25.00 would now cost $60.00 here, Well I must stop writ-
ing;. Give my love to all and write as often as you can.
Good bye for the present. From your cousin, Chester Covell.