Cook, Gustave, 1835-1897 to Eliza Cook
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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC02570.17 Author/Creator: Cook, Gustave, 1835-1897 Place Written: Bowling Green, Kentucky Type: Autograph letter signed Date: 11 February 1862 Pagination: 8 p. Order a Copy
Discusses Eliza's letter to Sam Jones (GLC02570, #15) that he returns with this letter. Compliments her letter writing and encourages her progress in this "art which you so much desire."
Reply's to Eliza's claim that she writes every week with "I do not get a letter from you once a month. I have many complaints about the matter, every one who writes letters to Richmond (Texas) or whose letters are mailed there complain that they never go or get through. We do not know what to think of it." Misses his wife because "There is no one here, like you darling, to rub my head when it aches or talk soft gentle words to me, to lull me to sleep when I am nervous and wakeful." Tells Eliza to stop asking for him to come home. He writes,
"I shall leave so soon after knowing that I can go, that I will not have time to write to you. You need not be uneasy for a moment as I will be certain to come as soon as honor and duty will permit."
Written at Camp Harrison.
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