To RH Milroy From Mary Milroy Sept 24 1862

              Rensselaer, Jasper, Ind, 
                                        Sept 24th 1862 
My Dear Robert 
               I have been aiming to 
write to you for some days, but my girl 
has been gone since Saturday, until last 
evening, and I have so unwell that by the 
time I got through home duties, I felt so unable 
to write that I postponed it from day to day. 
I allowed Ben to hire a month to G. McCoy 
our farmers need help so much , and so 
many are wanting him I consented to 
let him go, but when he gets through there I 
will try and keep him so that I can have his 
help mornings and evenings. He wants to keep 
our house his home, and appears to feel very  
greatful that he has so good a home to come 
to, when he got scard out of Ky. he feels consi- 
derable more interest in our affairs than he 
did before he went to war 
Sep 25th. I quit writing yesterday to attend our 
Soldiers Aid Society. I did not feel well enough 
to go but our Society has had a rather sickly 
existence for some time that I thot I better go.