Augusta County: Mary Anna Sibert to David H. Evans,
December 10, 1868
Summary:
Sibert writes Evans and discusses family news, her desire to move from Buffalo,
and her wish that Evans spend Christmas with her family.
Dec 10,/'68
Buffalo Va,
My Dear David
I have your welcome & dear letter of Tuesday which I have read with
thankful happines. I missed you so much last Sabbath my love. I expect Ada
& John Noon thought me unsociable I felt lonely in heart & Soul
& could not talk much to them. The day tho a
holy one seemed long to me without you who I love to be with. Yes my dear pa has
been called away again & left us alone in the Mountains
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for
how long I know not We are doubly lonely when he is absent. he wanted me to go
with him as far as Gordonsville, but I thought of you my love & Ma was
not willing for me to leave home.
Cousin Gordon Beale wrote that he was coming over to spend his Christmas with us
if he comes I have thought of going home with him after the holidays I would
rather be at home Christmas & have you here then
any where on Earth. I want you to come my love
& stay all week then you can hunt with Ham & cousin Gordon. You
must come I am going to remain at home just to have the dear pleasure of being
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with you who I love more then all
others. papa will be at home if he lives & we shall have a happy time.
You will come will you not my love I am so anxious for you to spend your
Christmas with us if you live I shall be very happy with you here & do
all I can to make you happy. My love you do not know how anxious I am for papa
to move from this lonely place. I suppose we shall know where we will locate
when he returns from Baltimore I hope he will go to Staunton. Pa expects to send
Hamie to school very soon it may be to New York. Ada writes that she is not
going to
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wait any longer then Spring before
she is married. Tell her I am surprised to hear it as I did not know she was
really loving any one at this time. I wish I could see
you my love it seems long since you were here last. I am sorry you
[unclear: cannot] come Saturday evening it will be so long until
Sunday Morning & then you will have such a little while to stay cant you stay with us Sunday night? I wish you could my
love & I do hope from my heart that we will soon live near so I can see
you often. I love to be with you who I love with all the deep devotion of my
heart & soul. I love you more & more every day of my life
& ever shall while I live with faithful devotion. You are dearer to my
heart & memory then all on Earth. Yes I do
indeed love you only & love to think of you when absent & read
your dear welcome letters. Come Sunday my heart says come I want to see you more
then I can tell & love you more then I can ever express in words. All send love. I send a
loving kiss to you. God bless you & let you come my only love.
Yours Lovingly
Mollie Sibert
