Letter from Charles Cook to William Barteau: Byrne and Asimov Genealogy and Family Histories

Title	Letter from Charles Cook to William Barteau
Date	6 Mar 1866
Locality	Personal collection of Hugh Byrne
Source Type	Letter
Source ID	S525
Text	Galveston March 6th/66 Dear Brother William I will now write you a few lines to let you know how we are getting along out here in this part of the world. I am doing about the same as usual. I am still in the Custom House and am stationed down at the west end of Galveston Island. William, I feel to sympathize with you in your very great bereavement. I know that you will miss her greatly, especially in the care of the poor little children. They will miss their poor mother very much. William the last month of her life she was a great sufferer, she would not show it any more than she could when awake, but as soon as she fell asleep she would show it by groaning nearly all of the time. Her trunk I have sent on the steamer Saragossa with Frederick Mills, he is a cousin of mine. There will be no freight on it, only expressing from the steamer to Yaphank. I have sent it in the care of Osborne Overton. Sarah has written to you the particulars about everything concerning her things and it is with the trunk. William I send in this a bill of her expenses which I should not have done yet but I am very much in need of it for I have had a great deal of sickness in my own family since I arrived here and I am behind hand(?) over one hundred dollars and the people are pushing me every day for it. So I am compelled to ask it of you. Her bills have not all been paid yet but the amounts have all been sent in so I have got the amount of them all and as soon as I pay them I will send you the receipts. I have sent on a draft to Capt Smith Dayton on you for seventy five dollars which I would like for you to pay him if you possibly can for he needs the money very bad once I promised to send him on the money but I could not get it for him. If you have the whole to spare you may send the rest out by him to me if he comes which expect he will. But if you have not got it all I would rather for him to get his draft and I wait for the balance myself. I expect to take Sarah & Charley down to the west end with me tomorrow and have Cecilla in Galveston to go to school. I suppose that we shall all stay down there this coming summer if nothing happens more than I know of at present. Sarah is quite complaining and Charlie has just got about from an attack of pneumonia and the day Capt. Dayton left here he took a swallow of Iodine and came very near going for it and Cecilla has been troubled with her throat and I was sick over a month so take it all around we have had our share of sickness. Give my love to all of the children and tell them that I would like to see them all once more. I must close my letter for this time hoping that it finds you all in good health and prospering(?). I remain Yours Fraternally, Your Brother Charles
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Letter from Charles Cook to William Barteau, March 6 1866

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