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—1868   My dear Walt

i got your letter yesterday and the money order and magazine and two papers all very good it will last me some time to read i like to have something on hand to read although i cant read as i once could i get sleepy and tired when i read of an evening but i like very much to have something to read)

i am pretty well now as well if not better than i was last summer i dont take any kind of medicine now only bath my limbs with cold water) i had a letter from martha monday it was longer coming than it ought to have been but i got it the 29th it was about 4 days coming they are pretty well sis has got well of the chills and matty is well all but her coughf hasent quite left her yet but they seem to be taking their comfort in having company and going round matt says jeff is very busy has hardly any time to himself she said she had wrote a long letter to hann telling her everything that would interest her so han gets letter from all quarter s

 

well walter dear as every body asks every body how are you going to spend the 4th one year ago this fourth i was here with the boxes and barrels all piled up around me it dont seem like a year since we moved here but time comes round and every year makes us one year older)

last sunday i went down stairs and something i scarcely ever doo i opened the front door and stood looking out a few minutes and i saw an old man with three children crossing over from hamilton aveand they looked kind of nice so i waited till they crossed over the man kept looking at me i thought he wanted to inquire the way somewhe but lo and behold it was Bartlett and his family i dident know him at first he said his wife said the other day how bad it was they had lost the run of mrs Whitman well i m in for it now he took down the number they were going up to prospect park he has as much as he can doo he says in survaying he made 50 doller saturday so if jeff ever comes back he could get prenty of work george had to apply to several before he could get his lot survayed their is so much property bought and sold george has his cellar dug and the foundation began sometimes he gets quite fretty about his building thinks he wont have money enoughf to finish it but i will tell you all about it when you come home which will be before long