
i have received
your good letter to day was glad to hear
you had A holiday wish you could have
come to Brooklyn an let us look at you and
see your new suit i suppose you wear
them every day or doo you keep them
for sunday) i thought i would write a
few lines as i had a chance to day
georgey
dident come home to dinner to day as he
had to go to the hall and get his money
i have had two letters from jeff
since i
wrote to you walt the first was written 26th
saying matty
was quite sick had been very
sick
by his statement had a very bad could
and was taken with cramps in her stomach
but the second letter announced her very
much better he said he thought i would
be worried and so he sent the second
one Jeff is easiy
excited when any thing
is the matter with any of them but i think
very probably Matty was quite bad the
last letter she wrote to me she said
she should never care to see Brooklyn
again if it wasent for me being here so
she seems to like it there very much i am
glad she does jeff spoke of you in his letter
i was glad you had written to him he
seemes to have a good deal of difficulty
in his business affairs the city s ingeneer
dying has appeard to turn things very much
against him) i went down to the post office
to get the order cashed
george would
have got it for me but i wanted to see
the post master i went inside and saw
him simonson his name is he is a very
pleasant man rather elderly he said
the 10 nor the 5 never came to the brooklyn
post office i told him i lost 5 some time ago
perhaps he wasent there at the time he said
he had been there this many years i thought
he came when roberts was removed but he
said he had been there
long time he said it
made them all feel bad to have money
missing that the carrier was very good had
been ther a long time)
Jeff wrote to me in this
letter that he thinks it was taken out before it
started as they arrested some of the post office
officials about that time) that is about all i
have ventured to go out in a long time i
cant seem to get over my lameness my wrist
is very little lame but my knees is so weak)
i expected mrs maguire
here to see something about the
children but she hasent been
george wright is
in the insane assilum very bad
the 2 dollar was all right i look for Ansel here this week as the grand masonic lodge meets in new york mary said he had to come as he is one of the heads of the meeting