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to do last winter for unclear even a tailor for cutting & a woman for sewing & this winter the same - But to return to T-n when I got his note & message by unclear I thought it impossible for me to get anything - But by a fortunate accident, a kind old man who lives with me had just bought a unclear & I induced him to take my home-made & let me have his - I had written to WL? for some linsey for [?Tol's?] nurse unclear for I had to fit her out too) & he sent me several yds over what I needed. & this used for a lining he wrote? for. for overcoat (he had cloth for that) - These things were put where he got them with an urgent message from me to hurry back- I had had great anxiety about him both last summer & now because then & now they wanted to connect his name with horse-stealing as much to injure me as him & I have paid the penalty since - But I wrote Judge B-L all the circumstances - He was my sister's child & of course. I did what I could for him - Had he been a Union soldier I would have done the same - But so far from being a guerilla, he has no taste for that kind of life - His misfortune is to be too find of home society