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  dear Walt

i will resume my corresspondence again haint you missed my letters very much i am quite glad to resume again well maty is gone she started monday at 5 oclock i suppose if she has met with no delays she is home to night we miss her very much although we have had company every day this week helen price was here on monday and mrs Black yesterday and a lady to day has just gone after staying to tea and i got it with such pain that i could hardly keep from groaning the matter is i have been on my feet so much lately that i have suffered very much and to day i thought i would keep still and try to get rested but i shall go to bed soon and try to rest we have had quite a number of people to see matt but   only called mrs Lane and mrs kirkwood they only called) but we had anna vanwyk 2 days last week and altogether i got kind of worked down but i shall get rested now i think it was much better for matt to not go to washington this winter but she made such preperations for it that she could hardly give it up say to mrs Oconor that marthe thanked her for her kind letter and will write to her as soon as she gets a little rested from he journy remember me also to mr and mrs Oconor and Jennie also martha was very much better when she left than when she came you cant think how she improvee before she went away she had a good appetite when she came she could not eat but very litle the doctor sounded her lungs with rather favorable result her left lung is good and three fourths of the right one) it had not made such progress as he anticipated) she slept up stairs but had no fire except the very cold nights as it made her coughf) she wants to come out there without fail) davis has been here on his way to lowel he said he never was in a place he liked so well as st louis

 

matt has a beautifull gold watch Jeff got that before he left and a large plated ice picker and lots of things and left her 40 dollars well matt like she see so many things she wanted that she got through with all the money george was to let her have what money she wanted by Jeffs wish and George went away before the 1 of the month and dident get his salary he told me to give matty the rent but as we have a new comer down stairs a girl baby they were a little behind in paying the rent   so she wrote to Jeff and he sent her a draft for 50 dollars and i let her have 5 dol she had none too much to go such a journey i hope she is safe home

matt is as kind to me as she can be she said she would she would send the 5 back when she got home i wished her to take it s now walter dear i must close as i want eddy to put it in the box to night we had a terrible storm here this morng but cleared off the afterno) your letter and contents came all safe walte dear

good be this tim