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  27 Feb '67 my dear walt

i feel as if i must write a few lines every time i get a letter i cant feel satisfied untill i write sometimes i think its real foolish to write every week but if i dont it seems as if i had something to doo that i had neglected my wrist hurts me so bad i have got Jeffs gold pen i dident know but it would help me along but iam so afraid of injuring it that i dont know as it will doo me much good) i got your letter Walt and money to day all right it is very warm here now for the time of year but very muddy i never go out any where except around the door i am midling well sometimes i think im real sick but it goes over i have been troubled with a pain in my side i have had a mustard plaister on part of the time i thought it helpt me some but i feel my age more this winter than i ever did before of course im older but i seem to be so tired every day the children annoy me very much there is no time to read nor any quiet they almost   live up stairs i like them of course but i get very tired of them they are very wild and noisy matty has no help at present but is to have a colored girl on monday they expect the masons here next week to make a visit) george was up to day as usual he seldom misses he comes up in the lumber waggon he has put his houses in an agents hands to sell he says he feels real poor they owe considerable but if they sell i suppose they will come out square and not much more every thing is so costly the plumbing and painting and they pay the most of the men 3 ½ dollars per day walt you may laughf at this figure three it looks a little like a comic picture i cant help but laughf myself O walt i got the almanacks i have been trying to get one ever since new year s i sent by Jeff and matt and george so many times i told them at last i was going to send to washington i wanted to see about the moon and the sun rising and all) i am going to try to write a letter to mary i expect she thinks we have all forgotten her as to han i dont know as i shall ever get a letter from her i will try to write to her before long) write walt how you like your new boarding house and O the poor soldiers i doo so hope that poor fellow will live it is so sad to suffer so much) i think walt Jeffs visit yes it has done him good

good bie Walt till i write again