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—1867   Dear walt

i got your letter yesterday with the money all safe i feel quite rich when i get it and dislike to change it but i have too for our georgy has been so hard for money lately that i dont ask for it if i did and he had any i make no doubt but he would give it to me) Jeffy let him have 150 dolr a few days ago O ive got a letter from han i have read it and will send it to you walt i was so glad to hear from her once more i thought when hattie brought it up it was from you i was a little frightened at first seeing your writing dident look at first at the burlington my not being in the habit of getting any only wensdays then i wach for the messenger O dear walt aint we having it here in storms and gales of wind it is awful what times we have i have just got warm since morning i have put a blanket up to the window to keep the wind out when its northeast its almost impossible to keep warm i have had a pretty hard winter so far but am in hopes it will be over after a while it has been almost as much as your life was worth to get to the privy it is so decending and slippery i doo hope i shant have to live here another winter i know i migh be much worse off but it is so bad for me to live up stairs such crooked ones as these   they have company yet down stairs they go out almost every night last week i hardly went to bed till twelve or after they go to new york and come up in the last car last night they come about 12 jeff had a cup of tea here which made it almost 1 before i got to bed davis s cousin is here nearly half of his time Mr Rice and masons sister is here mat and she is going to philadelphe to morrow i hope when she comes back she will settle down and be a little like herself i hardly see her she s so engaged in company and dress you know i wrote about sis swallowing the peny the next day morning matty and her friend went out so i kept sis and wached her and the penny passed through her when her mother came home she never asked any thing about it so i wouldent tell her i told jeff he was very much worried but but she s all well she says she calafornia when uncle comes home well walt i cant write much more my arm gets so weak and lame it is quite troublsome i am in hopes when the weather becomes warmer it will get better George has just been up and tells me they have sold one of the houses to the captain he was captain of the contest taken by the alabamans in the war times) this peice was cut out of the williamsburg times

good bie walter dear