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Washington D.C. November 3, 1863
My Dears
Your last letter is just here I have head ache this morning & only reply that you may know how I am.
Perhaps it will be best to take Julia from her studies, but it seems a great pity to do it, if her health will permit her to go on—Give her what outdoor ex-ercise you can during this mild weather.
You have attended to all those money matters I suppose of which I wrote
Dr. Marks has now come & I shall go out w the army to-morrow, D.V., to remain about a
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a week—then to N. York and about the 20th to Boston. This is my plan at present. Perhaps to be varied by circumstances. I have just learned that they are all now at & around Warrenton, and very quiet. I shall stop at Gen'l Caldwells Head Qurs—with cousin Cory
Washington seems to me less inviting than ever—crowded & to be so excessively during the coming winter—and very vicious & wicked—George complains bitterly—but seems quite well—His wife is ex-pected in about a week
Continue to write to me here—Love to all
Yours &c
J. W. A.
