From Jerome to Lulu, June 22, 1863
Dublin Core
Title
From Jerome to Lulu, June 22, 1863
Subject
Peirce, Jerome
Lulu
Vicksburg, MS.
Description
From Jerome to Lulu
Creator
Jerome Peirce
Source
Jerome Peirce Collection, National Park Service
Publisher
HIST 428 (Spring 2020), University of Mary Washington
Date
1863-06-22
Contributor
NPS, Civil War Group, Jim Bois (Transcriber)
Rights
For educational purposes with no commercial use. Courtesy of National Park Service, Fredericksburg and Spotsylvania NMP, FRSP 16095-16102 (FRSP-00904).
Format
5.9 X 8.65
5.9 X 8.65
Jpg
5.9 X 8.65
Jpg
Language
English
Type
Text
Identifier
Letter #133
Coverage
Near Vicksburg, MS.
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Text
LETTER TRANSCRIPTION
Lulu’s Letter
Near Vicksburg Missi[ssippi] 22nd June 1863
My dear little daughter
I wrote you a nice long letter a few days ago. Would you like a word now? Have written to Mama and thought I must tell you what happened while Uncle Ben, the same one I spoke of in my last [letter], was sitting under the trees in the shade the other day. As we were talking, we noticed a little bird fluttering in the grass and pretty soon we saw another bird coming. First it came and lit in a tree stopping a moment to see all [was] safe and then down it went to the little bird and gave it something to eat. So pretty. The little one opened its bill! Several times while we sat there it came. Was not its Mama kind to see it fed so pretty? So you see our good Father in heaven learns the little birds how to feed and take care of their little ones. I wish you could see and hear the birds here. Some are very bright in color and many sing different from the Northern birds altho we love them at home. I suppose you have seen them in the big trees at Grandpa’s.
Papa has had lots of plums and blackberries lately, and delicious fruit will soon be ripe but little Lulu must take kisses instead of these things now. Is Grandpa and Ma [Grandma] and Uncle Frank well? Will write them by and by.
I sent you a butterfly and some wings of another color as a specimen of what we see here and some “hanging moss” that grows on trees here and looks very beautiful.
You must make a little cabinet to keep the little things I send you in. Are you making your little scrap book yet of pictures and pretty pieces?
Love to all and a kiss from
Papie
Write me soon.
Lulu’s Letter
Near Vicksburg Missi[ssippi] 22nd June 1863
My dear little daughter
I wrote you a nice long letter a few days ago. Would you like a word now? Have written to Mama and thought I must tell you what happened while Uncle Ben, the same one I spoke of in my last [letter], was sitting under the trees in the shade the other day. As we were talking, we noticed a little bird fluttering in the grass and pretty soon we saw another bird coming. First it came and lit in a tree stopping a moment to see all [was] safe and then down it went to the little bird and gave it something to eat. So pretty. The little one opened its bill! Several times while we sat there it came. Was not its Mama kind to see it fed so pretty? So you see our good Father in heaven learns the little birds how to feed and take care of their little ones. I wish you could see and hear the birds here. Some are very bright in color and many sing different from the Northern birds altho we love them at home. I suppose you have seen them in the big trees at Grandpa’s.
Papa has had lots of plums and blackberries lately, and delicious fruit will soon be ripe but little Lulu must take kisses instead of these things now. Is Grandpa and Ma [Grandma] and Uncle Frank well? Will write them by and by.
I sent you a butterfly and some wings of another color as a specimen of what we see here and some “hanging moss” that grows on trees here and looks very beautiful.
You must make a little cabinet to keep the little things I send you in. Are you making your little scrap book yet of pictures and pretty pieces?
Love to all and a kiss from
Papie
Write me soon.
TRANSCRIBER’S NOTE (Josef Rokus)
After Jerome enlisted, Allie and Lulu moved in with her parents (Grandpa and Grandma). Frank (Franklin) Jaquith was Allie’s younger brother. He was born in 1839 and died in 1922, and he also served in the Civil War.
After Jerome enlisted, Allie and Lulu moved in with her parents (Grandpa and Grandma). Frank (Franklin) Jaquith was Allie’s younger brother. He was born in 1839 and died in 1922, and he also served in the Civil War.
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Reference
Jerome Peirce 1863, From Jerome to Lulu, June 22, 1863, HIST 428 (Spring 2020), University of Mary Washington
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