Default Metadata, or override by section

  29 June '69 Well walt

we have lived through the heat so far the heat has been bad enoughf but i could have born it but i have had a real bad time with the rheumatism last saturday toward evening i went up on the hill i went by the way of cumberland st and set down several times before i reached the top whether it was that or what i dont know but all that night i couldent sleep my legs pained me so very bad and sunday but tuesday they dident pain me so bad but left me pretty lame but i have kept around slowly made edd doo all i could i suppose it was coming   down the hill strained the nerves so i think i shant go on fort green again i am well otherways but such pain as i had for two or three days) and to mend the matter i had one of mr heyde s complimentory letters over a sheet of foolscap i read part of it and kindled the fire with it) walt if Mrs Oconor and Jenney comes i will make them very welcome and treat them very kindly but i cant doo as if i wasent lame but i shall get along very well it dont hurt me so bad quite to day to walk as it did yesterday) george hasent been home in a long while i havent heard a word from him he said if i got out of money i must write to him but i aint out yet i have felt sometimes quite uneasy about him as he is liable to be affected with the sun and he had to go to florence to inspect the new york pipe) matty is not or wasent the last i heard so well she and the children talked of going to minnesota the children has had the whooping coughf and they dont seem to get over it

 

Walt you must keep a good heart that teedious thumb will come all right i hope