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Letter from Adelaide E. Case to Charles N. Tenney, Feb. 25th, 1862

Again has my heart been
gladdened by one of your "angel visits"
how very interesting my letters
must be. "Angel visits"! indeed, if
mine are such to you, wonder what
yours are to me. Well dear one, I am
gratified if they interest you for I
had thought myself incompetent.

You seem quite anxious as regards my
health, Do not be alarmed about me
dearest if I were not enjoying perfect health
I should inform you. It is quite natural
for me to wish to know the particulars

about yours, for you ar not situated as
I am with kind friends around you, but
you are exposed to cold and hunger
as well as to the poisonous atmosphere
that must necessarily be when thous-
ands are breathing the same air. Therefore
please inform me in every letter about
your health. I trust you have recovered from
your cold that you spoke of.

Dearest "Yes" was the word you wished me to
say, and I have written it. If the tallented
and the gifted Charles Tenney can love and
accept of Adelaide's love welcome you are to it
and as regards my miniature, I presume
you have recd it ere this as I sent it
by Capt. Aspen. Preserve it my dearling, as
a sacred gift. There is nothing that I could
give you which could express my love for
you as fully as does that; and if you
prize it has as hightly as I do yours I wll
be more than repaid.

I am willing dear one to accept of you
just as you are a soldier and could not

wish you other than you are. How happy I
am, loved one. If ever a woman enjoys perfect
happiness it is when[1] she loves and knows she
is loved in return. It seems as if it was
too much happiness to last and that I must
yet find it all a dream. Darling Adeline will
strive in her poor way to make your life
happy. Oh, how I love so to dwell on these
dear thoughts, but I must turn to other
subjects

Darling, you did not intend to do me an
injustice di you when you asked me if I
was jealous of you? Surely you did not.
No, I am perfectly willing that you should
write to her when and what you please, and
should love to have you. She enjoys your
letters very very much, I thnk I know
the reason of that question. It was about
my "wry faces" was it not. When Laurie wrote
that little note of hers she told me she was
going to commence it with "Sister Charlie"
I laughingly told her if she did I would
not send it with mine hence her on "my faces"
which she wrote about. Thank Fortune that
ugly "green eyed monster" has no influence over
me. How unhappy I should be if I had
not confidence enough in one I love to allow
him to correspond with my sister. The idea

is perfectly ridiculous so please dearest never
again allow such a thought to mar your happiness
for it certainly must make you unhappy.

Charlie, dearest, try to suppress your
ill will towards Col. will you not
at least while you are under his
authority. Please do. Perhaps Hallie was
in the wrong in writing these letters
although that seems almost impossible
but he ought to have been more careful
what he wrote. You will not seek revenge
for Hal's insults will you? He can not
wish you to. In the letter you wrote to
Laurie you said "the pen is mightier than
the sword" Dearest do not strive to prove it
for I fear if you do you will meet with
powerful opponents. Even if you do write under
a fictitous names are you not fearful of
your letters being intercepted?

Perhaps you will think me writing about that
which I ought not or which I have no interest
in. If so forgive me and I will do so
no more. But I have not time to write
. Write often dearest your letters
are so welcome