Letter to Lulu

              [added later: "To my Grandmother, Martha Louisa Starr, age 16, Nacoochee, Ga."]

                                   Charleston  Nov 6th 1863
My dear Lulu-
          I have no letters from you unanswered, are you too busy to write your poor lone uncle?  I wish I had you here to keep house for me while your aunt Mat is in Georgia-I have a Mr. Wagner in our Buye Street house-She has a little boy 14 years old, who stays with me at the store, and assists in distributing the rations to the poor.  At Hampstead when I sleep, I have two little housekeepers Julia and Mary Murray 13 & 16, none of them can fill the place of my dear wife, & precious children.  I have a very dear friend at Summerville, Mrs Henry King, the author of "Busy Moments of an Idle Woman, Lily etc."  I go up there occasionally on Saturday 5 P.M. and remain until Monday morning-they meet me at the Depot with the carriage.  Mrs. King is as kind to me as an own dear Sister.  Since this war began, she has lost her husband, Father, Father in law, beside several other friends.  She is one of the most brilliant women in America-her daughter, Adel, is at Greenville, with Judge King's family.