
i received your letter yesterday it is the first i believe that i have got on tuesday but i am very thankfull to get them wensday i should have written immediately and told you the letter and 2 dollr came safe but i was fixing georges things a little as he has gone to camden to the foundry he and mr Lane went last night in the 6 oclock train georgy dident want to go much i dont think it was on my account but georgy is very much carried away by somebody who it is is best known to himself he gets 5 dollar per day and his expences paid to the city once a month if he comes oftener he pays his own way he said he should come 2 weeks from next saturday i think sometimes its a pity such a good man as george would be) he is good to me but he seems to be so close with his moneey maybee he has uses for it that i little know he pays the rent and when i ask him for ten cts he gives it to me but he used to be so different well walt we all change some for better and some for worse

i was so glad to get your letter walt yesterday i have not got any hous yet matts got a letter from jeff monday and a check for 50 dollars and yesterday she got one from Worthen for 200 dollars for Jeffs servises in the board of health and there is one hundred more to come to Jeff george brought the check up for the 200 hundred and said there was another hundred to come i said to george when i give matt this check she will say when will she get the other sure enoughf i gave her the 200 doller check and she said she wished they would hurry up and pay the other hundred i said i told george you would want the other and you dident know you was going to have any so walt you see folks changes) but walt i think you and your old mother is about as reliable and good as you can find) mat is waiting to take the letter i have got a very bad cold and am pretty lame but i must bear it
good bie walter deartake good care of yourself the next i will write about domestic affairs