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  1870 My dear Walter

i did feel so ansious to hear from you and i cant help but feel quite down hearted to hear your thumb is so bad yet i am so sorry for you to have such a tedious long time but i hope you will have it all come right in time but it seemes a long time it seemes sometimes as if a sore never will get well and then at other times it will heal very quick it is too bad) how doo you do to write at the office or dont you i wish you could write what the doctor thinks of it and what you put on it but i dont want to have you write any extras because i know by the writing it must be difficult for you i long for a letter so bad thinking you will be better the next one

 

but i hope you will not get discouraged my dear walter for it certainly will get well) i had a letter from Jeff he said they had the radical and was much pleased with the peece in it we had a gread day here on monday as likewise you had in washington decorating the soldiers graves)

i suppose walter you saw the death of richard hunt in the papers he was buried on monday at 2 oclock at his residence at stanton st i saw it was about 11 in the forenoon and i thought i must go i went up to mytle av and got me a pair of gloves and when i got back i was so lame i had to give it up as i would have to walk several bloks i was afraid to undertake it what ailed him i dont know i belive his children are all married) i expect george home on saturday

good bie walter dear dont get discoured  

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