To RH Milroy from Mary Milroy April 20 1862

              (upside down) 
Cicero and Mattie saw your picture in Ind.  
a much larger size than I have, how  
does it come that one has not been sent  
to me? I am anxious to get one of a larger size. 
 
                       Rensselaer, Ind 
                        Sabbath Evening  April 20th 1862 
My Dear Robert, 
	I received your  
letter of Apr 4th on last tuesday  
evening, and am ashamed to  
acknowledge that I have been so  
much engaged and exhausted,  
performing in door and out door  
work, for Ben cannot do much  
in the yard and garden unless  
I am with him to direct and  
teach him, that I did not see  
when I could write. In the  
evening after the children  
have gone to bed is my best time  
for writing, but then I was  
so tired that I would tumble  
into bed to rest. After I got the  
children washed and put to  
bed last evening I thought I would