Augusta County: Mary Anna Sibert to David H. Evans,
October 19, 1868
Summary:
Sibert writes to Evans and discusses her adjustment to her new home in Buffalo
and her love for him. She also gives family news.
October 19, 1868
Buffalo Va,
My Dear David
My heart & soul both thank you for your dear precious letter of to day by Ada it came to me like a bright ray from
Heaven, cheering my lonely heart as nothing else could in all the world but your
own dear self. I was so glad so truly glad to hear from you whom I love with all
my Soul. You & your precious love are all the world to me I could not
live if you did not love me. it is the dearest & sweetest blessing of my
life to have
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your love. The world would be desolate to me without it.
The one cry of my heart to you is Oh love me love me only I know you do my love
& that fact is the most precious joy of my life. I have been trying
to day for dear papa's sake to be cheerful
& contented with our Mountain Palace but I do not feel as I can ever be
pleased to stay here you & dear Ella are right in saying a mountain life
does not suit my taste it does not & never can unless I could be with
you. perhaps if I had never known & loved you I might have been more
satisfied but you
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my love fill all my heart & thoughts now.
before I loved you I was contented at home with my dear pa & Ma but now
I am happiest with you any where for you are more to
me then all on Earth father Mother sisters &
brother I love but not with the deep absorbing devotion of heart & soul
I have for you. You are my all of Earthly happiness & you only. I
beleive my heart would break if you would cease to love me Oh how I did want to
go back with you Sunday eve. I felt as if I could not give you up & that
my very life had gone when you left me. To day when the
cars passed by I cried to think
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they were going where you are
& I could not go too I did wish to be in them & go to Staunton.
Three trains went down & two came up. Capt Walton stoped the cars just above us & let Ada off we were standing
on the porch [illeg.]
[illeg.] Capt Walton Mr. Dunlop & another gentleman waved their
hands at us until the cars passed out of sight. Capt Walton says he will stop
for us when ever we want to go or come. Dear pa
leaves on the morning train for Baltimore we will be made lonely [illeg.]
[illeg.]
[illeg.], without him & [unclear: may] God bless dear
papa & let him come back to us soon is my Earnest prayer. I am so
anxious to go with you to Staunton Sunday if we live but pa is not willing for
me to leave home until after his return from Baltimore. what must I do duty
calls for me at [unclear: home] & love calls me at Staunton. To
my heart it would be sweetest to obey the call of love & go with you. I
cannot leave Ada only with the children they would be so lonely pa & ma
both gone
