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New Iberia Oct. 25th /63 Dear Carrie I have addressed this letter to you, because my only Postage Stamp is on an Envelop already directed to your address. I would write you much oftener than I do, if I could only see your hand writeing in return. And as for Charlie I am going to quit writeing to him entirely, for I never get any answers to my letters. For some cause we have not had any mail in the last ten days, perhaps some has been burnt on some of the boats that [begin vertical writing:] Have just finished supper had a first rate pudding do not think you could exced it under the same circumstances The detail has just come for picket, I have to go with six others from the company [vertical writing end]