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  My dear Walt

all alone

i receives your kind letter this morning i was glad to hear from you glad you had a good visit i was fearful you dident have quite as good a time as i wanted you to have we cant be quite as free to talk when any one is present as if we were alone) but if the visit done peter good it dident doo us any particular harm) well walt as you say sometimes in your letters things goes on about the same with me as usual only i have been rather lamer than usual

 

i beleeve i am worse when i stay in all the time than when i go out i beleive i shall try to go out to morrow if its pleasant i feel the need of going out a little i thought i would not be away if mr Oconor should call but he has not so i think he has returned to washington)

walter dear you needent send me harpers as i procured it the other night

 

hellen price was here and spent the day or it was rather late when she came nearly noon but she staid till nearly evening last saturday Emily is married about two or three weeks ago they board with mrs price but are going to houskeeping mrs price has not been well but has got better except a coughf ellen had a letter from Clapp wishing to know if you was in washington as there was nobody out of his own family that he thought so much   of as you that he had written to you but had got no answer he has been to new york and put up at lessey farlands i believe thats name and she gave him cloths to make him desent and there has been a collection to get him paper and materials to write hellen said he was tipsey nearly all the time he was in new york he wrote to hellen she had the letter here he was never so glad to get back out of new york that all was changed) george will be home next saturday i expect Jeff and all are about the same

good bie walter dear