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Chicago. They were splendid it is needless to mention them [over?] I received all which you mention in the letters accompanying them.

  Among the articles which I have the impudence to ask in my next package , are my old vest which [Mrs?] Irving made, 2 [illegible], 2 undershirts, and 2 good overshirts and make the [tails?] a little longer than army shirts usually are.  
  Send also a sleeping cap, like Mrs[ Nouase?] send to her boys, and a memorandum book exactly like they sent Johnny Hall.  When I got my stack of goods, I think that is all I need and certainly more than I deserve, nut mother told me to write for everything I needed, and I am going to do so.  I suppose the next opportunity will will be by Mr Stevens, 214 S. Water St.   I am going to write