[Letter to] Miss Deborah Weston
Contributors: Weston, Deborah, b.1814 recipient
Series: Deborah Weston Correspondence (1830-1879)
Published: 1863
Place of publication: McClellan U.S. Hospital, Nicetown, Pa
Language: eng
Format: [manuscript]
Subjects: Correspondence; Women abolitionists; Antislavery movements; History
Notes: Holograph, signed.

In this letter, Augustus Hesse explains that "on account of Almira and Anna being here [and] in spending the time with me in glory & joyfulness I do all what I can to remain" in the hospital. He requests that his wife Almira be met upon her arrival in North Braintree by "our old true Horse I use[d] to drive." Hesse received 4 months of pay by accident, instead of the 6 months of pay owed to him.

In the postscript, Augustus Hesse promises to write his next letter to the doctor [Hervey Weston]. Hesse says: "I shall give him the knowle[d]ge of my comfort here in Philadelphia the splendid old good Wine I drink now to make me strong to be ready to fight the Rebels."