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Cashier and Auditor's Office Cincinnati, Peru and Chicago Rail Road La Porte, Ind., June 26= 1864 My own good sweet Wife

                                                 Your letter of the 22 came to me last night & talked lovingly of m hearts treasures far away towards the sunrise. Right glad was I to hear from my sweet wife & from our dear children. But how my hearts ached to hear that dear little Eddie is not well. That he has taken cold & has a bad cough. He is so frail that I have ever felt anxious about him lest disease should settle upon his lungs & take him from us. It seems to me I never saw a child with such tiny arms & limbs & then his chest is not full. He is & always was very active. I have always had misgivings about sending him to school & unless he immediately recovers I must insist that you take him out of school. Unless he is quite well when you get this. I want you should take him out of school & do all in your power to make him well. You know how dearly I love our children & you certainly will heed my wishes in this respect. Dear little boy how much happiness I have had from his presence. His innumerable tokens of love for me. I am very anxious to have him live & grow up to be a good noble man. I want him educated of course, but I do not want him confined one moment in a crowded school room to develop lung disease. Write me immediately about him, Winnie & George I think are not as predisposed to lung disease as Eddie. They are not so frail in their physical organizations. Winnie's great trouble seems to be a predisposition to bowell complaints- but I hope to trust he will outgrown it. I am very glad to hear that he & George are so well & I hope when I hear from you again I shall hear that Eddie is well too, Watch him with a great deal of care & let him do nothing to develop lung disease & you shall have the 

[left-hand side] I shall send the clothing in this small black trunk and mark them Rev Geo. S. Nes? Let me know if this money I enclose reaches you in safety. We have had no rain yet. You can hardly conceive how dry it is.