| | 1 | Author: | Armentrout, Amanda C. | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Amanda C. Armentrout to William F. Brand, June 3, 1866  | | | | Published: | 2002 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Civil War Collection | UVA-LIB-BrandLetterscivilwar | | | | Description: | I received your very dear letter of 24 last Wednesday never was a letter read
with more interest than that; it found me enjoying the best of health one of our
dear Saveirs best blessing (but how unworthy am I
for it) I can say dear brother that I was truly glad to hear from you &
do thank my heavenly Father that he put it in your dear good heart to write
Willie dear boy I have wronged you will you forgive me I believe I have found
forgiveness in the dear Lord but will you forgive for I have been the cause of
all this trouble Oh dear brother it will kill me if you dont forgive; just to think that I am the cause of my dear bosom companions being lost, eternially lost. Oh my dear dear Savier
pitty & forgive for I will give you my life for
the salvation of that dear soul yes dear brother I will spend & be spent
for you though the more abundantly I love you the less I be loved; I deserve
nothing but your hatred & contempt can I ever be happy again not untill I see the dear one changed yes a Christian. Yes my dear brother if you allow me to
call you thus last year you started out with prospects bright & allureing & these were your words Kate I am
going to make or brake & for whome for what for an
unworthy creture as I (me) that did not deserve the
notice of a cat let alone the notice of one so pure so noble so good at heart as
thou all went on well prospect bright & brighning
grain came in on evry side I must surely be the
happiest man living. Oh is this not flattering it is (like) an ideal lover or
will be soon but hark I hear a noise & in come a fine looking old gent
(Ah the serpent coils in eden bows) Well
Mr B dont you want to go in pardnership with me you will make mony at
it; at what why haveing your grain distilled I wont go I must make my money some other way my good heart
& God sais I must not go Ah come dont listen at that you will make enough soon to get
married Ah that is charming well I must wait a while & yes I must go
& see K & see what she sais about it Pa
& K both oppose dont care so much for Pa but K
is the one he lays it all out in flattering terms she said do as you pleas & Mr B sais at
last consented & his word goes as far as mine with with me &
farther too; he goes back but concience &
Pa sais
dont go but I am doing it for K when he gets back serpent enters
what say you well I dont know I believe I will; well
lets draw the article but we must have a dram first no I dont indulge her come going in do such business & dont last & yourself besides you have a cough
& it will help it; well K told me to take somthing for my cough & that is the very thing any thing for K
all done for K. come Mr B there is a party a head tonight lets go no I dont care about it I just got a leter from K &
she is very cold & indifferent she is always writing something about
some nice fellow or her dear friend R that I dont
blieve she thinks as much of me as she ought I will
go & a way he goes come Mr B join in the dance I can't come ah well I
will K is perhaps having her fun I will to drove away
sorrow Mr B you are very lively to night but it is all put on what is the matter
with you well I will tell you I fear my first love is blasted Oh my dear her
then thou only knows the agony of that dear heart. Soon the serpent goes to K he
has done his will with B he tell her that B has got to drinking she writes a
hasty & insulting letter & it insults & wonds B sais I dont care I will go & see her & quit her at once I
have done all this for her & this is the thanks I got he comes but love
& pitty enters that good heart I will tell her
all my bad deeds & she will turn
me off but instead it bound her nearer to him & what next the serpent is
at work he tell K much & she believes &
what is the consecuence God knows she suffers for
it but is she a lone no no Oh she ought to be she diserves it all & more but enough of this. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
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