Editors Note: The letters of this period often had little or no punctuation except for a few capitals. Some writers capitalized the first letter of the first word in the manuscript and put one period at the end. The spelling was often done by sound ­ engerd for injured, phew for few, and new money for pneumonia. We have left the spelling as we found it. We have inserted extra spaces between sentences instead of the conventional period. If a proper noun coming at the beginning of the sentence is not capitalized, we have capitalized it.