Mangum34
June 14th 1864 
 Dear sister Caroline 
 I will write  
 to you     I received your kind note  
 I was glad to hear from you  I  
 am well and hope those lines will  
 find you all well  I havent much  
 write to you  I commenced writing  
 to sister Mary C some days a go  
 and kept wating for some impor[u?]  
 niws I untell now  I will send  
 it  I gave all the news that I had  
 in that only I can tell you that  
 the wheet crop is shorter than when  
 I first wrote  the people say that  
 the sead wont be made and nothing  
 looks well but the gardens they  
 look well  write to me as soon as  
 you can  tele Sister Vina Catlett  
 that I send her my best love and  
 respects and I will write to her befare  
 long  I would like to hear from her  
 and the little baby  tell her to write  
 to me  
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 gave my respect to all of my  
 friends  I cant name all out seperate  
 but I think as much of them all  
 as if I was to name them evry one  
 I have been laying off to write  
 To sister Sunter and family for  
 I loved them every one but I have  
 never wrote to them yet but  
 I ask you to gave them my love  
 and respects the first chance  
 I must close  write soon  
 I remain yoar sister untele  
 Mollie Catlett  
 to Caroline Mangram


