
i
have got the tuesday
letter
and two dollars all right the
messenger did his duty this time if he
never does it again
if you get the chicago news
i would like to have it i am alone
so much evenings i like to have something
to read i have been lying down a little
while i dident sleep very well last night
and i feel awfull stupid so i think
i shall make out a stupid letter this time
i feel pretty well) mrs Black
brought
me something to take for the rheumatism
yesterday doctor bakers) prescription
i took
a little this morning but i dont think i shall
take it he gave it to her for that complaint
she is not very well part of the time she is quite
miserable but goes around as usual
she often wishes to be remembered to you
she got my dress for me i spoke about it
suits me very well plain black delaine
fine and better than i could have got
myself at present) i suppose jeffy
is home
by this time i got a few lines from him
from Pittsburgh saying his affairs there
was better than he expected as the foundry
was going on with the engines i believe
they had refused to make any more but
have concluded to go on they took the contract
too low i believe was the trouble) he said
he might have staid here till monday
as he had to stay there untill friday
likewise
i have had a letter from matty
she is
much better she says she had not been well
since she left brooklyn untill now she feels
reall smart but poor sis
she has or had
when she wrote the chils and fever
she dont shake when the chill is on matty
says but looks so deathly she wishes she
would have grandma s rocking chair when
any thing ailed her here she always wanted
the new rocking chair as she called it
well walter your extra pay aint decided
yet in to days paper but i feel anxious
about it too i expect it worries you less
than the most of the clerks but at any rate
it would come good) george
is pretty
well he is to work at his inspectorship
jeff says as long as lane is in the water works
georgey will be) matt said i must tell you
she had an envelope all ready directed
to you and she would try sometime to
put a letter in it and she would write
to hanna
i beleive smith has commenced making window frames for the house) french does the mason work his bill was 300 dollars less than the other masons his was 1000 and 50 dollar the other was much more