Letter from Charles N. Tenney to Adelaide E. Case, 1862 Jan 18 | ||
Letter from Charles N. Tenney to Adelaide E. Case, 1862 Jan 18
1862
Your favor of the
12th inst. is at hand,
and
I have made it a rule to answer
promptly all letters from my
Addie
consequently I now apply myself
to the very pleasant task of
addressing
a few lines to you.
As all is known, now, dear Addie
need we have any secrets? I mean
as
regards the feelings predominant
in our hearts. Addie, I cannot
refrain from telling you all.
Pardon me, I love
you,
Addie,
of feeling, common among boys, but
with a pure. fervent affection, which
comes welling up from my heart, all
unbidden, but irresistable. It may
perhaps be wrong -- you are far above
me, in worth and position -- but
my love is from the heart, and ?
increases in strength daily. Addie is
in my thoughts by night and by
day. But for thy darling letters, and
the impression on my heart when I
saw you -- I might have become
demoralized and lost forever.
Addie, do I love in vain? Do my
feelings meet with no response in
your heart? With you, dear Addie
rests my future. Will it be a
happy one, happy in your love
or must I be doomed to live
a wretched miserable life.
me? I shall wait anxiously for
an answer, dear Addie, will it be
a favorable one?
My position in life, it is true,
is not an elevated one, but I know
and feel that I shall make a
mark in life. God has given me
talents
and I shall improve them
I love you, Addie, and nothing else
Dare I
hope that I am loved in return
Do not censure me, Addie, but
remember that I have none to
love or
care for me.
But I must, however reluc-
tantly, turn to other subjects.
My mind is
so tumultuous that
I can think of nothing interesting
to write. You
asked me if Seth
Coon got married. No, I
believe
not. He says that engagement
formed in another direction! We
must possess queer sentiments in
regard to such affairs, dont you think
so? A person so unstable in character
as that, I have but little sympathy
for. The Seventh is in the third
brigade, (Tyler's) of the Shenandoah (Landing)
department. It consists of the
7th Ohio, 7th Indiana, 1st Virginia
and the 110th Pennsylvania Regts.
the "Bloody Seventh," (ours) on the right.
nearly well, and encloses a line.
Hoping to soon recieve an
answer confirming my hopes.
forever
To. dear Addie.
Letter from Charles N. Tenney to Adelaide E. Case, 1862 Jan 18 | ||