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La Porte April 19, 1864

My dear good wife,

      I did not write you yesterday & the mail that left here this morning is the first one that has not taken a letter from me to you for some time.  Do you get all of my letters.  I wish you were here to talk with me to-night for I would enjoy it very much but as you are not here I will write to you as the next best thing to talking to you.  Although I did not write you yesterday I thought of you very often & of our dear children as I do daily.  You asked me in your last letter how the mill matters were getting along.  I cannot well explain the whole matter in a letter.  It is court week this week & I suppose there is no doubt but that the first mortgages on the mill will be foreclosed.  I have done my best to have