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I write to ask another favour in addition to the numerous ones performed for the late Captain Cooke of the so called C. S. Army. I have "nothing to wear" this sweltering weather but a tremendously hot suit of Confed. cloth, and want you to get from Mammy's and send me by Express, my broadcloth coat and pantaloons. I am obliged to ask you to pay the dollar more or less, it will require, which I will repay, the
Care Garland Butler P. M.
Kerneysville
Jefferson Co. Va".
It will then come straight. Please do this for me, as early as may be, as I want to go over to the Vineyard [his brother Philip's home] soon, and really require the clothes. Tell Mammy I am well, and send my love: and that I don't want anything else.
[overleaf] Now for a "few remarks" as to matters and things in general. I am like thousands of others, afloat, and my plans are rather unsettled; but I do not take a blue view of affairs by any means. I believe that a "better time is coming" and that the professions will soon begin to be more lucrative than ever. My resource for the present, will be literature—for the New York market, not the Richmond, where I can see nothing but a cowardly sett [sic] of time servers, whom I for one don't intend to harbour with. I have already sent to N. Y.—to the News,—sketches of Jackson and Stuart which will bring me, I think, about $50—and I have little doubt of finding a market there for all my wares. For the present I am following my ordinary programme of spending the summer with the clan hereabouts—only I came up a little earlier than usual.
[Five paragraphs pertaining to family matters follow.]
Send along the clothes, and tell me what they cost. Please do this at once
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