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  Brooklyn 10 Dec 1865 Dear Walt

i have got in the habit of writing to you every sunday so i thought i wouldent break through to day) i received your letter yesterday after looking all day for one i was glad to have the letter and glad to have the 2 dollars at noon i hadent one cent and i asked georgee to give me 50 cents and after looking for a considerable time he laid me down 50 cents well Walt i felt so bad and child like i cried because he dident give me more if i had got the 2 dollars a little sooner i should not have asked

 

i have got along very well up to about 2 weeks ago and since that time goerge has been moody and would hardly speak only when i spoke to him well of course you will say mother put the worst constructions on it well Walt i did not the first few days i thought perhaps something had gone wrong in his business affairs but up to to day he has been so different from what he was ever since i have been home but to day he is more like himself Well Walt i thought of every thing sometimes i would think maybee he is tired of having me and Edd and then i would think george is too noble a fellow for that to be the cause and i knew that i had not or he had not been to more expence than if he paid his board Jeffy told me to have a talk with george and ask him what made him so   but i dident like to i would ask him if he wasent well and so on but i doo hope it will go over i acted just the same as if i did not notice any change but i felt awful bad and what has made him act so god only knows but i believe it runs in the Whitman family to have such spells any how i hope they wont come often) Jeff is quite sick to day he was sick nearly all night vomiting and purging he has eaten very heartily lately he eat chicken and stuffing for his supper and cranberry pie before he went to bed and i think that is one great cause of his sickness he looks bad but probably it will doo him good to have a good clearing out the rest is all well mat has had company 4 days this past week and expects the Doctor to day we had quite an alarm not at this house   but the recent parknesses A burglar broke in the basement while the man and his wife lay sleeping in the front basement when she awoke he was lighting the big lamp he had taken the mans wach and 5 dollars and walked into the back basement and came back and kicked the window open and walked out the lady mrs jones came here the next morning very much alarmed indeed there is very much house breaking and robbery going on in this city there is hardly a night but there is a dance over the way and an awful fight the other night) well Walt next sunday when i write maybe it will be more cheerful i wish walt you will send me ten dolls not all at one time but if you can send me 5 at the next writing my shoes is rather bad for cold weather i have some mind to not send this letter now i have wrote it if you write any thing about it put it in a separate peice

  L Whit