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  —1869 Dear Walt

i have receeved your letter to day all safe with the envelopes and all right i had Mr Burroughs and his friend to see me yesterday tuesday they got in yesterday morning and was going to leave at 4 ocl in the afternoon they were here about an hour i think i should like burrouhs very much and the man with him too was very friendly it dident put me aback in the least things were in order and i happened to have on a clean cap they thought the house very good and your portrait attracted theer special attention i asked them to stay and have dinner but they declined said they could not as they had to go somewher i beleive & i was glad to hear you had been there last sunday and took breakfast) it has been very hot here and so much cloudy unwholsome weather i have felt quite bad some part of the time worst i would feel would be in the morning when i first got up i would feel so exausted as if i never could doo any thing but when i got some coffee i would feel better but these two or three mornings back i have felt better) george has not been home since i wrote last to you he dident know but they would send for him to inspect here but i suppose they haveent he says he has to work real hard out there so many pipe to handle but he feels pretty well has a good appetite he says he has the rheumatis in his legs and hip i dont think its the rheumatis at all i think its the affects of his fever when he was a prisoner in the war   well walt i have had a letter from matty the other day they seem to be all getting along finely matty sent me two 25 cent bills quite a lift wasent it walt well walt i dont want to complain of any body but i doo think sometimes they might send me a few dollars but to send 50 cents i thought it rather small when i think of what i have done for them i dont think i would be indebted if they was to send me considerable) Jeff sent a letter to George after he left for camden wanted an immediate answer) now walt i will tell you all about the affairs between george and jeff i think you will understand it in the first place jeff let george have 500 dollars george gave him a note forit and then he let him have 500 hund more he gave him a note for that that made 1000 dollars one was given last august and the other last september and when matt was on here george lent her 50 dollars she told jeff to pay george but he dident so george thought it could go to pay the interest of the notes or toward it) when jeff was on i said to him couldent he let george have what money he would want to build with and take a mortgage on this house i thought it would be an advantage to jeff as well as george so he asked george how much he would want and george told him three thousand dollars jeff said he would let him know when he went back and george said when the other house was sold he would pay off the two notes and only have the three thousand stand well jeff sent drafts at different times till he had sent it all but 600 dollars that was to make out the mortgage you see walt and then he stopped dident send any more finally the mortgage was made out and executed and left at the recorders office and six hundred wasent received so when george was home he said that six hundred he should keep to pay you and when the house was sold he should have some coming and would make up enoughf to pay off the notes to jeff) well this letter to george was to see if george couldent pay the notes off as jeffy wanted to go into some speclulation in an iron furnace manufactory but he said for george to not sell the house by any means so i wrote a letter to him that george was away   and would be home in 2 weeks and that he had transfered the 1000 dollar mortgage on the steers property to the mason that done the work) jeff wrote to know if george held that mortgage yet so i dont know how it go) if you cant understand walter dear you must read it over two or three times) when matt wrote to me she generally asks how walt is and they would like to have you come on there well i dare say they would well i said in my letter to matt walt seems quite well now and the same good old standby sends edd and me our daily substance i thought afterwards maybe they would think it was a hint to them but i thought i dident care good bie Walter it will bring it near september if you dont come till two months well   come when you will we will be glad to see you and you will be welcome walter dear