p.

How does thee get along, this very hot
weather? It is most too much for me,
with no work to do & I suppose thee is
making cheese. Do not work too hard,
for I had rather come home and help,
than have thee do that, though I should
be rather poor help, for a while, I fear.
I am now in very good lodgings & grow
no [underline]worse[/underline], I think. Charley, too, is here,
still & we are both comfortable. Though
I would like to visit home, I have no
reason to complain, here. There are a
good many, now here, who are suffering
from wounds, & those, who are not like-
ly to be fit for duty again, are being
discharged, as fast as they get well [enuf?]
to travel. The surgeon who attends in this
ward is from [Vt?] & seems a fine man, too.
I suppose you are all aware that I am glad to
hear from home, as often as possible. Give
my love to all the folks. With much to thee

I am as ever,

Thy son W. B. Stevens

To R. B. Stevens