Dear Mary,-

Lieutenant George R. Hall has a leave of absence and is going to start for home today so I will send a few lines by him to you. He will call and see you and you can send such things as you wish by him to me.

I am in want of some money and postage stamps. I will send by him to get me a valise which will cost eight or ten dollars. I have twenty dollars now and that will last me about four weeks. My board costs me five dollars to five-fifty a week and my washing six cents a garment. In case we move and I do not get my pay I will have some on hand to use. I do not like to get short of money.

Lieutenant Hall will tell you more than I have time to write.