Writing from Columbus, Georgia, on January 15, 1865, Theodore O'Hara wrote Mrs. Richard Wintersmith:

"By a series of contretemps I only [received] on the day before yesterday your esteemed favor of Nov. 1st forwarded from Albany. I am glad to learn that Dick [received] the pakcage &c. It is the last time I shall borrow money, so much trouble I've had about this loan from R.C. Tell him I will forward the other $100 soon. Would have done so long ere this, had I had any assurance that the package sent had reached him, or known that he was still at Mobile. On reaching here some fornight ago, I got the Express agent here to write to Mobile to ascertain if the package had ever been [received], and had ascertained the fact before your letter informed me of it .
Should you be communicating soon with Mrs. Hawkins, please convey her my regards as also [illegible] Hawkins. I have written to her several times in reply to letters from her in regard to a good place for them to take up their abode, but in no occasion ever heard from her or Hawkins any more. I start to Richmond in three or four days to report for duty & probably have a fuss with Jeff Davis and his [concerns] before I get away."

Letter courtesy the Kentucky Historical Society.