Dec 20th 1864
Dear mary Catharine
I recvd your kind
welsome? letter 3 days ago
and was glad to hear
from you I say to you
now i am well and
in good health at present
and hope you all are the same
I have send 4 letters home 
in the last 3 days and
I will try to write often 
and you must do the
same you must go
to school all you can
and be a good girl and
help you ma I hope again
 to see you all but I
Cannot tell when so no
more at present I bid
you farewell

I send you five
Dollars in this letter
tell jennette I will
write to her soon
Adieu for awhile

	Jesse Taft