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very near dieing in Mississippi, but thank God I am still permitted to live and am enjoying pretty good health this winter. Our people are planting their corn now. I saw a man yesterday that said he was planting over one thousand acres. Cotton has played out, only for our own use. I bought some the other day at 60 cents per lb. by the bale. I wish I had some of your postage stamps. I will send you half Doz. which will take the place of enclosing a dime in a letter. You can put one of them on the envelope that is directed to me and it will come to me from Richmond. I must go to work now will fill this sheet if I can, if not, I say good bye and that God will bless you all, and if consistant spare our lives and permit us to meet again in this world, but if not, that we may all meet those who have gone on before, in that bright world above. That we may there meet an unbroken family circle around the throne of our Heavenly Father. Good bye one and all. Remember me to all old friends and believe me your devotedly attached son and brother. Mary unites with me in prayers for you all. L.C. & M. F. W.

As my man has not left yet and will not before tomorrow, I take my pen in my hand and my pipe in my mouth once more with my wife at my side reading a sabbath school book. We are both teachers in the Sunday School and a fine school we have -- some over one hundred scholars. We attend the Presbyterian church, and a very fine and good man our preacher is: he is a Connecticut man by birth, and has been here several years. I know you would like him if you were to see him. I wrote you in one of my letters that I had connected myself with that church. I should have done so at first had it not been that I was so