John A. F. Martin, Richmond City, to Louisa Martin, 1854 January 21

Pleased that she is weaving a blanket, but be careful of her health because it is toilsome labor and when going between buildings in the cold. Gragg has gone to school and must work hard. Baldwin sent his carpet sack to Piedmont by passenger train but he went on a different one. Recent hog butchered must have provided many tasty cuts of meat.