
i received your letter
Yesterday all right the 26th
i dident expect
to get one so early in the week but i was very
glad hanna
and i went out yesterday
for the first she walked better than i could
i got some flannel and a pair of woolen
stockings the weather gets cold quicker
here than in the city but it is very pleasant
to day i have had one letter from Matty and
one from Jeffy none from mr
george i
suppose he is very busy they appear to
want me to come home i feel a little worried
sometime for fear matty has more to doo
in edds being there she says he is a very
good boy minds every thing she says
i hope it will doo him good my being away
she said davis had been there and stayed
all night slept in georges bed i suppose
george has to pay pretty high for his board
he has the back parler to mrs hagemans
i suppose i shall get away some time or other
i dont think i can stay a very great while longer
han says you must come while i am here
and bring all your shirts and she s fix
them cant you come without going to new
york Walt cant you come to albany and
thence to burlington
i should like for you
to see that place across the lake about the
ground mr wells
the man that his family
lives there says there was ground enoughf
to raise all any one would want too and
very good the house is low ceiling and
consists of hall and parlor dining room
kichen and bedroom and woodshed on
the lower floor with 2 rooms up above
it is without blinds he said provitions is
very cheap milk 4ct quart there is i beleive
a summer boarding house there cheifly
i beleive for invalids it is a mile and half
from keesville
which is all kinds of stores
and things i suppose i shouldent mind
staying there summers it is 3 miles by
stage after you land to port kent
this boat
from in sight of here goes the sherman
and the
new york line stops at the same point just
below here all along the side
of the lake is what
they call pioneers shops
i should think there was
500 they make every thing and they are packed
and sent away off to pheladelphia and i dont know
where in barges i beleive they call them with a steamer
to tow them there is very many men i see going down
to work with souldier cloths on blue trousers) you
must write walt if you think you can
come before i go home han sends her best love
to you i feel midling well sometimes i am
very lame
han says if you cant come while i am here to come afterward