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  Dear Walt

being its Cristmas i thought i woud write just A very few lines i told mat you would have enoughf letter reading for to day in her letter it has been long time coming but has come at last Jeffy got home last night but will go away again on monday next to be absent all the week i am always sorry when he s gone it has such an affect on matty she gets fretted with things but we all have our spels of good and spels of bad) i must tell you before i forget it i have been quite sick for A day or two only so i took a dose of medicing what i have not done befor in years i dont think it done me any good one or two nights i thought my throat was all filled up conceited a little i gess   then in the morning it would be much better it is nearly well now) well we have had our dinner not turkeys nor geese but pot pie made of mutton matty and hattie and all took dinner down here and supper last night so you see i donteat up stairs very often but i feel just as well satisfied) you know they wont have Jess up stairs now so we have the benefit of the children down stairs i dont mind the baby but i really think hattie is the worst child i ever had any thing to doo with so very ugly with her mischieving i think under all circumstances if i can pay a little more rent and can get a place i shall move in the spring this place is cheap but it is too much for me to go so far up stairs   i thought some nights when i felt so bad i never could get to the top) but if we live we ll see what spring will bring forth nancy and the children is well Jimmy has got well she goes it yet in the street matty told you i suppose about going there and her being out of things she probably was out of some things i had given her that week 1 dol 60 cnts she said she got medicine with the most of it but walt if she d work as i doo she might live very comfortable with her rent paid and so much given to her but she dont appear to think she ought to doo any thing but run around and gossip poor Andrew he s out the troubles of this world how he did to live as long as he did is a mistery   she has got or had 30 dollar and the man that got the chest says he will set it up again and give her the proceeds they are going to get her a sewing mashine but i think it will doobut little good) i got your letter walt about Jesse Jeffy must have wrote very strong about him Dr ruggles is very much interested in him wel walt jessy is a very great trouble to me to be sure and dont appreceate what i doo for him but he is no more deranged than he has been for the last 3 years i think it would be very bad for him to be put in the lunatic assiliym if he had some light employment but that seems hard to get i could not find it in my heart to put him there without i see something that would make it usafe for me too have him   he is very passionate almost to frenzy and always was but of course his brain is very weak but at the time of his last blow out we had every thing to confuse and irritate we had nanc s children here 2 days and hatty and his going there and seeing Andrew lie dead he cried very much every time he heard them speak of him where or at the funeral i fixed him all up and he kept georgee down stairs untill nancy got in the carriage and then he brougth him out to her and got in the carriage i went in the carriage with her and Jeff and matty and Eddy in the next) i think Walt what a poor unfortunate creature he has been   what a life he has lived that as long as i can get any thing for him to eat i would rather work and take care of him that is as long as i see no danger of him)

Mrs Cobb Charlee sister was to see me the other day she was very clever indeed said charlee wrote to her i had lost a son and she thought she must come to see me our little california is splendid she s fatter than ever i hope these lines will find you well

good bie my dear walt