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  My Dear Friend

I was thinking to day whether I had answered your last letter or not but I am going to write you anyhow[no handwritten text supplied here]The most news at present is about the high water of which we have plenty & to spare even to the big folks at Washington if they need any[no handwritten text supplied here] The weather is warm and spring is fairly advanced people are plowing & wheat looks first although I am not interested in agriculture I am glad to see things   thriving. I have been engaged in the oil business the past year but I find it a losing game and now I am out of employment and floating around & its hard to tell when I shall turn up & whether it will be up side down or right side up If I had known in time I might possibly have got the nomination for Governor of this state but ex Gov. Helm has beat me. That you know would have been better than lying around idle now I must look for something else for a living. I might steal if I knew enough but I have not even the first   rudiments of the profession and then it leads to unpleasant things when one gets caught at it I think of going to Nashville this week and can see if I can get work there something from blacking boots down to sweeping crossings I think if Gov Brownlow knew me he would not hesitate to give me a good berth in Tennessee but being of a modest disposition of course I cannot call his attention to my many merits

Now you must not think I am egotistical at all for I am not I am only telling you what most every one knows as true anything about me   It's Sunday evening I'm sitting alone sad & lonely, no dog to love no one to talk with Time hangs heavily and yet they say time flies fleetly, Ah it may be I have seen the time when minutes were hours & hours days but that is gone yes its​ it's​ near two years since those scenes were past And May God in his mercy deliver us from the curse of war where so many meet their death or are thrown back upon the world a poor miserable cripple a invalid to themselves and of no benefit to country or friends

I remain affectionately your friend Anson Rider Junr

If you direct to this place I shall get your answer even if I am not here

Anson   Anson Rider Bowling Green Ky​ Feb. 24, '67 Ans​ March 15, '67