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Fuller completes letter 1 by telling his wife that he believes that Mr. Brooks is actually her Uncle Abijah. Fuller goes on to tell her that if she ever receives the dictionary and never sees him again, she should communicate his thanks to Mr.…

Fuller continues letter 1 writing about being sick for a week with a fever and describes what he was given at the Custom House by Mrs. Brooks, Presidentess of the Ladies Society for the relief of needy Confederate prisoners of war: a bed, bed…

Fuller opens letter 1 describing to his wife, Mary, how he got captured by the Union upon the explosion of his ship, the Queen of the West, on April 15th, 1863. Fuller also describes what it was like being a patient at a hospital that was formerly…