Augusta County: Mary Anna Sibert to David H. Evans,
May 13, 1868
Summary:
Sibert discusses family news and her longing for a visit from Evans.
May 13, 1868.
Mt. Solon Va
My Dear David,
I will now answer your dear & welcome letter of Tuesday & have it
mailed if the rain is falling but I hope not enough to raise the rivers. I wish
as usual for the first & last wish of every day that I could see you.
Ella & her dear children arrived safely Monday Evening & found
us all gald to see them again. Ella says she knows you will take care of her
dear Magnus & stay with him at night & keep the robbers from
killing him, but don't you let them kill you. Ella talks so often & so
much about you all that
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is good. I love to hear her speak of you. she
knows it. dear Ella is a true, & faithful firend of yours from the very
sincerity of her heart. so is Magnus. I will tell you something Ella told me he
said to his sister Bettsey about you when you come then you will know that he
does certainly esteem you very highly. it makes me love Magnus more than I ever did. I wish you were only here this gloomy
evening I would then forget the sun was not shining & the rain was
falling it would be so bright within the house that I would not feel the want of
sunshine outdoors. but you are not & cannot
be here now. I can love you, think of you, & write to you, pleasures I
thank God for giving me
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when you are absent. I have been thinking so
much about you that I love to think of nothing else all the day long. Ella is
anxious for me to spend some time with her this Summer if we should live I told
her the same I wrote to you last week, but if Ada returns I can go &
stay a long time & be near you who I love to be with always &
never get tired of seeing your dear face. I do get very tired now of waiting
until I can see you two long dreary weeks Oh how long & slow the days
are to me before you come I often think I can't wait there is nothing in this
life harder to bear than to wait patiently for what our
hearts wants to be now, to have
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now, but can't & must wait
longer than now for what we so fondly desire to make the
heart happy & satisfied I try to wait, & not complain for I know
it cannot be helped. It seems that I would give anything in this world if I could only see you every day. I am sorry you
can't get here earlier, so we could be with each other as long as possible your short visits seem like dreams to me
[illeg.] they are dear & sweet to me if short just so I can
be with you I am happy & contented & now to think you will soon
be here makes my heart very light & glad. I can scarcely wait for the
two days to pass so anxious am I to see you again. come if you live my love I
hope God will safely guide you to me as in days past. I love to have you with me
always I love you with the same unchanging devotion of heart & soul.
nothing can ever take my love from you & to love you is a very dear
pleasure to my heart. I ask only for you to love me, & only for me to
love you of all the living on Earth. Yes I love you & God knows how
deeply, & how devotedly. All send love. I send love & a loving
kiss to you. Come Saturday my heart says come. God bless you
Yours
Mollie Sibert
