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  19 Oct 1869 my dear Walter

i receeved your letter to day with the money and harpers magsine i was glad to have the number and letter too i scarce ever see the magazine now adays but like to read it particularly at present for i have had such a sore thumb on my right hand i couldent hardly sew a stich i got a splenter in it before the folks went away and then slopping about in cold water it got so bad i put slipery elm on it but it dident doo much good but it has got so i can use it to day i was so disappointed last saturday in Georges not coming home i wanted him to come very much to fix the stove for one thing but Edd and i got it up yesterday i thought we could hardly get it out but we did and its much better it has been quite cold here i got a bushel of coal this morning and it works much better than wood) i havent heard from st louis since i last wrote to you walter i dont know whether matty is coming on here this fall or not i dont think it would be good for her i think its too late in the season but if they come we will doo the best we can) not one of the prices has been here since you went away you know helen was here just before you left and i said i thought she hadent a very good time   i sent a letter to hanna last week a good long letter urging her as much as i thought would doo to come and mak us a good vesit that i particularly wanted her to come and that she must write to me as soon as she received my letter without fail and i suppose that will be the last of it i put one dollar in the letter and said i send a little change but will send more next time whether she ever gets any of the letters i dont know) i have had thoughts of sending a line to Dr thayer what doo you think of it walter doo you think it would be best or not) mary wanted me very much to go to Burlng and she would stay and keep edd i told her i dident feel able to undergo the journey) you know mary wrote that Ansel they thought failed the business was while they were down in virginia he got a drinking and John Louisa s husband got very much put out with him and throwed his liquor overboard and they came home ansel come near dying with the deliru tremes he was master mason in his lodge but is broke and gone down to a common man mary and louisa belongs to the presbeteran church but the change of heart we wont say any thing about she says she is as good as the rest and have a 20 dol pew and with

Love to all of the Oconors LW

sorry to hear her sister is ill