I rec your kind letter of the .14th of march and was glad to here that you are all well for that is the best nuse that i can hear. well I got the two dollars and the six stamps and was glad to get them for we have not been paid yet but i hear that they are agoing to pay next week but that has been told to us for a long time. well i don't care whether we get paid till our time is out or not then i shall get it all in a pile and shant spend it. you dont tell me anything about the hay. i have asked you about it every letter for a month tell me about it if you please and sell it for all you can get before it falls for it is most spring now and folks will tern out there cattle

as soon as the snow gets off on the acount of hay being so high get all you can for we shall need all we can get. for i want the place paid for the first thing when you get the money for that troubles me the most of any thing for i like it to well to lose it. I think we will get red of Mrs Pratt when i get home for I will buy them out i want that land and barn i can buy it for .100. dollars and that cheep for he cant pay for it and it will bee sold to pay the morgage. Well you say that jim bolton [i.e., Pvt. James H. Bolton, Co. F, 14th New Hampshire Infantry] has got home on a ferlough again i am glad of that i guess he never will come to the reg again i hope not well i must close for the mail is going out in too minits so good-bye for this time

this from your husband i am well

William Combs