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  My dear Walt

my letter is rather late this week i waited thinking i should have some word either from matty or hanna but i have no word from either george had a letter from jeff the other day he said matty was writing to mother but i have not received any as to han i dont expect any i thought when the box went maybee she would write a few lines i requested her particularly to write if only a few lines and that we would expect her to come this spring but i have not heard nothing since heyde wrote they got the box) sometimes i get so worried about her that it makes me quite unhappy

 

i was sorry walter you have them bad spells with your head it must be very bad indeed) there is a kind of linement called cloroform linement it dont affect one in the least that is to stupefy but it is thought to be good for the neuralghy and rheumatism i got a 50 cent bottle and am rubbing my knee and hand with it whether it will doo me any good or not i cant tell yet i am pretty well now full as well as usual) george has got a bad cold which has made him almost sick but he has gone out to day he is not at work just now but has been) it is snowing at present like winter it thundered and lightened last night and rained so we must take it as it comes we have just got   a ton of coal so we shant freese O walt how many mornings i think of you when we have buckwheat cakes how i wish you had some) the folks here goes on just the same dont seem to mind the loss of their father much

my love to mr and mrs oconor

  4 Feb. 1869 Brooklyn