Oct The 25 . 63
Rome GA [T????] p kin hosp
Dear Nancy & Darlin Babes I
a gain take my pen in hand
to rite you a few lines at leaves
me verry well at present i am prety
mutch like i was wen i got home last
Dont bee oneasey a bout me i am
A fareing verry well considern evry
thing i can walk out in the yard
Some times i am tollerable well treated
hir i have my vitels cook & fetch
To my Bunk i get to eat for brescus
Chicken & coffee & Bread for Diner
Chicken Bread & Soop Super Bread
Coffee & Sirp but quite as small
[?????] off eney But men at is able
to Nock round gits beef & bread
I git a nuff to eat my Self or i dont
want mutch & i git Some licker ever
Day nearley i dont noe how long i wil
Stay hir but i think at i will Stay
Some time yet as i eant able for duety
nor eant inproveing eney this is a
verry [????] [?????] plase but how ever
I will try to endure it this plase is
a [Soled?] hospitle & the Sick is comeing
hir dayley i git noe very mutch hir i
Saw [????] Hall the other day
he [??????] [???????????] he
said at he wood yet see [????]
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At he wanted hir to take [some?]
Off his [pearoew?] to work next [1]
year ever thing is hye hir pork
is one dollar & a half a pound & iff my
horse was fat & i had him hire could
git a thousand or twelve hundred dollar
or him & i want him Made fat iff [???]
[??] I am verry Sorry at the oald man
Dident git your plase but i hope at
he will Soon tell him to doe the
best he can & i will put oup with it
and if you Sell your corn you had
Beter bye Som [??] a gin & doo the Best you
can & bee Saveing as posable trye to git
Bill [??] Some Shues iff you can git leather
I dont expect to have ever thing dun
[?????] hir for it wood cost me thir
ty dollars & Shues is forty dollars a pare iff
you get a plase i wood adiise you to move
son as posable for Several resen i have
and iff you came to Sea me rite a wee
k or too bee fore when you will come
& iff you come a toll come on the bote
And [then?] come out the left hand st
[???????] in three or four hous off whare
you turn off to goe to the Bridg & in yure
for the [????] offis off the Tournpke
hospitle & i am in that house but i
ant in noe hurey for you to come
[Soot?] your Self i hant the time be[fore] you mov
first let Mother read this i got ar box [??]
[rec?] [????] & a pint off Whiskey Safe i was glad
to git it larents is hir with me i will
like to gow & giv a few days S good bye
an i will I receve your letters & and [money?]