Letters of Rev. John W. Alvord

no other such chance for money, & are disposed to save what they have. They look ahead just like other folks.

Mr Warren is quite enthusiastic. He has never seen these things before, negroes—cotton— schools—rebels in their subjugated glory, and he is at this moment stuffing his gaping valise with specimen of whatever a valise will contain—Mr. W. is evidently to have a museum. He & Mr Savage are just in from a tour of a few hours to Davis Bend. Jeff.^s plantation &c &c. Do you want any garlic from his garden, or negroes toe nails—furniture from the gopher holes of the besieged Vicksburg—bullets, flowers, leaves, pebbles, or other curiosities of intrinsic or associated value? You will look for articles now in the Tract Journal of great interest. However Mr. W. does really seem to be waking up to some things which he had not thought of before. This meeting here away is quite providential—I am quite ^very well this morning. The rest in the rain of yesterday has quite refreshed me. My clothes a little tattered, shirts [tender?]—stockings wollen one pair only, & so of flannels—But expect to get on in some way as I have often done in the field before.

Dont expect me now till I come, in—my plans of rapid return are broken up by this avalanch of