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  My dear Walt

although i have had a pretty hard day yet i felt as if i wanted to write a line before i went to bed although i am very tired indeed well Walt Jeffy and matty has started to night for st lou is they are to stop to pittsburgh for a day and a night matty was about the same she cant doo much as soon as she does any thing in the way of housework she vomits up all she eats she is far from well but the doctor speaks encouragely of her but O walt haint i had a seige they pretended to live up stairs but the provitions was prepared down well Walter dear i have lived through it) but some things i have thought rather hard of they have never paid a cent of rent nor a cent of gass bill nor give me a dollar when they went away they gave me an allapacca dress when   they first came and Jeff bought me a little mite of a castor that is all about three weeks ago george bought 20lb of butter and they have used out off it ever since and matty borrowed 50 dollars of george but jeffy dident settle it) they had plenty of money as jeffy drawed that out off the bank i did really think they had ought to give me some but let evey thing go but i would ask more than 100 dl to go through the same again)

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well walt i dont hear any more from heyde the letter i sent to you was the last i got poor han i feel very bad about her its hard to know what to doo as heyde seems to be determined none of the family shall come on there i got your letter walter dear with the doctors on tuesday all right

Dr enos is dead i suppose you see in the papers very suddenly

my love to all the Oconors and keep a share for yourself

george has commenced his house they are digging the cellar