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�Relay House Baltimore Jan 8th 1862 Dear Wife I sit down this morning to write [inserted] you a few lines in answer to your kind letter that I received day before yesterday I should have answered it yesterday but I wanted to here from George Parker I went to Baltimore to see him and to see how he was geting along I found him very sick and going in consupption as fast as time can cary him I want you to go right over to Jacobs and tell him he is tell him [inserted] he has the best of care his evry thing that a man can ask for to make him comfortable as far as that is concerned but he is amoungst all strangers tell him we are going to try to get him home as soon as he is able if he is ever able and for him to write to me as soon as he can wether he wants him to come to Lewiston or to Westbrook and if he should be taken away we shall send him home if his friends requests it and I think they will and where they want him sent to Lewiston Durham or Westbrook and if there is anything he wants to communicate to George to not be afraid to write to me and I will attend to it with pleasure be as expeditious as possible wont you I have not any news of any account to write to you at this time we are all well and when these few lines reaches you I hope they will find you all the same Lyman is as hearty as ever he is writing to you to day tell the