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the fair Sex, but alas: there was no one to shed tears for me, unless it was the washer woman, whom I owed about a couple of dollars. Debt may have been the cause of most of the grief, for there is hardly a man but owes something, and some a great deal more that they expected to pay Direct your letters as before, for the mail has to go to New Orleans to be distributed, I can find out nothing for certain as to what command we are in Write often With love to all And hopeing that I shall receive some letters soon I remain Your loveing Brother Carl