
i received your letter yesterday with the 5 dl and it was very acceptable well walt there is so much to write about really i dont know how to begin well to commence george is getting along pretty well but very little upsets him he has the headach and is not very strong but he goes down town almost every day but gets tired toward night but i think he will get along very well) now i must tell you walt how we are getting along with our troubles matty has sold nearly all her things except her carpets and beds and spent the money as fast as it came in for clothes to go in the country for many things she got more than she gave for her chickins she got 18 dls and all she sold yery well mr bullard owes her 100) hundred which mrs Beecher is responcible for and the house is all in confusion and a dresmaker here till saturday and they are here cleaning and to morrow mat and the children and dresmakere moves up with me george says i must try to

have patience but I dont know how i can stand it very long never was any thing managed so before her going off to masons to stay is so absurd and we must move O walt if they was away i should get a place and move but i dont know how to get a place for them all she sold all her things and boxed up all her beds and matt has had so much money to spend but then i wont say any more the bullards is coming next tuesday davis has got back from worster mat says he wants me to get out and not be hanging on) they want to hire the piano he is having the house all put in thourough order at the park expence)
well Walt i am done with
that part now i must tell you
the other side George is not
going to put a house on the putman
aven lot but will sell it for
what it will fetch back of
the blacksmiths shop they have put
a carpenters shop so he and smith
went to look at it the other day
and decided not to build
on it at all
he and smith went to look
at some lots yesterday
they liked
very much on the corner of
tomkins
avenu and lafaette st
george says it is very fine
but it is a plot and the price
is 3000 dollar cash the turners
has the selling of it he has gone
again to day to see what they
can doo george says he knows
you would like it it is within
one block of the decalb ave cars
if they could get it they would
build a number of smalish houses
he says the neigberhood is
very good but he is afraid they
cant manage to get it
so when i next write
i dont know what the progress
will be but Walt you must
not be alarmed if you hear
we have bough the
lickfield
property or maybee some of
the shantys on the park i often
think if i had a shanty i could
be contented where i could be
at peace and not have to move
i will try to take things coolly as you advise

i will write when we get a place i thought we would get a second story there seems to be quite a number to rent