My dear Friend -- I have been hoping for a letter from you daily for some time, but we have nothing of any sort from Gainesville for 2 weeks past. I am glad to say that I am still improving under my wife's unwearied and judicious attention, and am truly & steadily happy. She has also resisted her fevers. The children also are very bright & happy, and altogether my shanty is as full of sunshine as it was a month ago of gloom -- for then all seemed doubt as to how things would turn out.
     I write now however more on business than any thing else. The difficulty about lumber for boxing may possibly be obviated by Mr. [illeg] Neville, who will get or have sawed at the plantation some suitable lumber, cypress if possible, and as transportation partly by Mobile is a hindrance I may have what I want hauled in the direction of Selma. My wife has written to Thompson [illeg] Prest Marion & Selma Rail road to see if he will see after any thing sent that way. As to things to send, you can hardly go amiss, as to any thing useful, I cannot now recall

many items that have occured to me. My wife however begs for the Zire chair if still in existence, send also carpet chair, & all other good chair carpets. If you can find a Murray's grammar, Exercises reader, among the books, please send them & all nice library books generally (omitting Webster's dict as I have a few better.)
     I have determined to sell all the servants at once, & have written to Dinick to inquire his opinion of Gainesville as a Market compared with Montgomery, where they would bring an average no doubt of $1500. Please see what the judge thinks of the matter. I wish Mary to be sold with the rest. & expect soon to sell Alfred, who as you say is radically bad, but will sell well, & do well on a plantation under an overseer.
     But goodbye My love to all your household in which my wife joins. She thoroughly appreciates the great & unremitting kindness that you and yours have shown me for years

Ever faithfully Your friend
L. H. Anderson