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New Orleans July 3d 64 Dear Sister Sallie It is Sunday evening, and nearly all of the company have gone to bed, so that it is now quiet enough for me to write. I got my portfolio but with the intention of writing in the fore part of the evening, but the boys were so full of fun and frolic had to desist, until matters quieted a bit. Last night about eleven Oclock, I was arroused from my slumbers by the announcement of a mail, and found that I was one of the lucky ones, as there was two letters for me. One from Johnny Beck, mailed at Alton June 24th it covered two sheets of letter paper written in small hand, giving me a detailed account of his experience in the last three months. He writes a splendid letter, there is so much ease in his composition.