Dear Mary,-

I have an opportunity to send a letter to you by Mr.John Cleveland, so will improve it. When you see him he will tell you how I am, how I look and how I am cared for. You ask me about your brother Alex H. Wells. I did not know where he was until yesterday he came to see me. He has been in a Hospital Tent. He has trouble with his lungs and is looking badly but I hope nothing serious. He had taken cold on Maryland Heights when building a fort I think I have written you about. There are several men of our Company here but I do not see them as they are in other wards or in tents. This building is four stories high and each story holds two hundred beds.