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—1868 Brooklyn   dear Walt

i received your letter to day thursday with the money all right i thought it was a goner as i dident get it yesterday i couldent hardley give it up yesterday as you wrote in your fridays letter i would get your letter on wensday but it come to day very welcome

mr Burrous has not been to see me i was exspecting him every day after you wrote but he dident come) i have not heard from jeff nor matty since i wrote last to you) edd said the letter man asked him to day why his mother dident get any more letters i used to get so many matty used to write quite often and Jeffy once in a while but they have all seemed to fall off) but the good old standby if he should fail me i should have nothing to look for but i gess there is no danger is there walter dear as long as you have your old mamma i often think how loth many is to have children and what would become of me if i had none   Janey mc clure that is nanc s brothers wife was here the other day she came to see if cornell had been to see me about the children she sends them the most saucy letters they think if they should doo any think she would not be any too good to kill her brother Edd thats the one in the new court house) i have come to the conclusion there is but one way to doo and that is to send them to the nursery to flatbush there is no institution in the city that they would be taken as they are janey thinks that is the only place that she couldent get them out i cant begin to tell and i dont want too half the worse that wreched woman does i dont know walter how you feel about their being taken there but i know that i should feel much better than to have them sent out begging it would be no disgrace as there is many there that is of good parentage there they would be clothed and fed if they ever can be cleaned janey says the are so dirty that you would not know they were ever clean

good bie walter dear your mother

i am about the same as usual feel quite smart at times

 

they are digging the cellar at georges lot he had it survayed yesterday