Augusta County: Mary Anna Sibert to David H. Evans,
December 1, 1868
Summary:
Sibert responds to Evans and discusses family news, the fire in Staunton, her
disappointment on the postponement of his visit, and Evans's opinion on her
fashion choices.
December 1st
Buffalo, Va,
My Dear David
I have your welcome & dear letter of to day. I
was thankful to hear of your safe arrival home. how much I did miss you my love
& I wished with all My heart that you could have staid longer with me but while you were riding home I was here
thinking of you & loving you. I was disappointed to read in your dear
letter that you cannot come Saturday but I know you would
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enjoy
your self much more to be here when we can be
with each other & not so much company to divide our time with. I know I
should, my thoughts will be with you my love. I shall miss you sadly it will be
the first Sabbath for me to spend at Mountain Palace without your dear society I
shall not know what to do with myself without you my love it will seem lonely
here in my new home next Sabbath not to see you, but I must wait & if we
both live you will come next week the time will be very long to me in passing
away. I will love you & think of you every hour & wish I was
with you who I love so devotedly. Hamie was
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delighted when I told
him that you had commanded pay from Mr. Stanley for the loss of his whip. he
said "you were the business gentleman to please him." I was very sorry to hear
of Mr Johnson's & Hoge's loss by fire but glad it did not extend further
& others made to suffer. fire is a dangerous element one cannot be too
careful with it. My dear papa has been trying to improve the beauty of Mountain Palace since his return. I do not
know what you will say about it when you come Have you seen my discarded King
Louis the fifteenth just to think that I should discard a King for your sake. I
love you more
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then all the crowned heads in the world or their
fashions I will not wear any thing you do not
admire. I love you & love to look well in your dear eyes if I please you
I do not care what others think or say of me I wish always to be just as you
want me to be to you in dress as well as in disposition. I love to please you
& I want you always to give [illeg.]
[illeg.]
[illeg.] if I wear what you see is not becoming I thank you for it
because I know that your taste is fine & artistic & I love you
the more for being so. I wish I could see you my love & how I wish you
were coming Saturday I long to be with you more then I
can tell. I love you with all the deep devotion of my heart & soul,
& ever shall while I live You are more to me then all on Earth, one
look, one word from you is dearer to me then the praise
of all others living. I will write to you it is a sweet pleasure my love to
answer your dear letters. All send love. Write soon to me I love you with all my
heart & soul. God bless you my love & grant that you may soon
come to one who loves & thinks only of you I send you a loving kiss.
Goodby my only love. Write soon
Yours Lovingly
Mollie Sibert
