
how are you this morning
i would very much like
to come in and see you and
get your breakfast for you
but as i cant i must
content myself with
writing these few lines
we have had later news
from poor dear matty jeffie
wrote the 7th
she was more
comfortable and her spells
of coughfing was somewhat
esier i think we shall get
a letter to day from Jeffy
if i doo i will write to you
again walter dear
i got your letter yesterd
i am glad to you are
gaining some if but slowly
if we had a home walt
you might loaf as long
you wanted to
but i gess you will
be glad to get out
in the open air once
more
i shouldent
wonder if staying
in the house so much
made your head
worse its bad enough
to have any thing the
matter with the head
its bad enoughf to be
disabled any where
but we cant run away
from sickness so we have
to be thankfull its no wors
i have felt very sad
walter dear thinking of
dear matty Jeffy writes she
wants to see you and me
poor poor matt good bie
dear walt keep up your
spirits and hope for the best
what a good fellow pete is
i have had quite a lot of correspondence from new york concerning your condition our relations