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                                                                                                                                         Mrs. Root
                                                                                                                                          Du Quoin Ill.
                                                                                                                                          DuQuoin Dec. 8th 1863

My dear Mrs. Metcalf

                   I thank you for your very kind letter. I thank you for your remembrance & sympathy. I am always so glad to see Mr. Metcalf - it reminds me of happier days - when my children were around about me. Oh how much grace I need to say "Thy will be done,, - sometimes I think my heart says it. I know that God means all this for my good, tho' He takes all, it will be but a few days before I shall follow, & then oh, & then shall we meet on that land where the weary are at rest.
       This pleasant weather Anna seems so much better. Our home for this winter is at our old place - we are boarding with a pleasant family - the care of keeping house was too much for me. It is rather lonely, tho our DuQuoin friends call often - dear one they are

[top left] You cant think how much good your kind letter did me, I am so ready to despond, to distrust, have mercy Oh God on my unbelief. farewell dear friend & forget not to pray for your ever friend S. Root