Nashville   Apr. 28th /64 
My Dear Sister Oliva 
as I have a 
few leasure moments I think perhaps 
it will do no harm if I write a few 
lines in reply to your kind and acceptable 
litter which I rec'd in due time I was 
very glad to hear from you to learn that 
you are well and also that you think of 
me and that you Stay with my girl a 
part of the time I want you to Stay 
     much 
with her as ^ of the time that your 
folks can spare you for surely she must 
be lonesome when there is no one to stay 
with her you said that your folks have 
not heard from Pa and you suppose  
that he has forgot the wright folks 
or perhaps he has been charmed by 
one of those wenches well I guess he 
has not [crossed out] [been] forgotten the folks at 
home for he said that he had wrote
[Written upside down on top of page] 
 
   excuse all mistakes write soon 
Direct to box 512 
 
two letters but he had not heard 
from home.. there are lots of wenches 
here in this city but their Charming 
thos who have come from the north is 
an erroneous idea for the charms of beauty 
and love are left at home but perhaps 
some may have a kind of a contraband love 
but as for me I like those darkeys at a 
distance better than near by we are all 
well and I hope this may find you 
the same there was a few of us 
went out to the burrying ground 
we Saw Some very nice monuments 
out there Albert carver and I 
went to the reservor with the rest 
of the Co but while we were 
looking at the engine the rest 
of them went away and left 
us, tell hattie to have a good 
[illegible] laid up and dried for me 
this time write soon and as 
often this is from your Brother 
William [illegible in original]