
i receeved your letter to day
with the money and harpers magsine
i was
glad to have the number and letter too i scarce
ever see the magazine now adays but
like to read it particularly at present
for i have had such a sore thumb on
my right hand i couldent hardly sew
a stich i got a splenter in it before the
folks went away and then slopping about
in cold water it got so bad i put
slipery elm on it but it dident doo much
good but it has got so i can use it to day
i was so disappointed last saturday in
Georges not coming home i wanted him
to come very much to fix the stove for one
thing but Edd and i got it up yesterday
i thought we could hardly get it out
but we did and its much better it has
been quite cold here i got a bushel of
coal this morning and it works much
better than wood) i havent heard from
st louis since i last wrote to you walter
i dont know whether matty is coming
on here this fall or not i dont think
it would be good for her i think its
too late in the season but if they come we
will doo the best we can) not one of the
prices has been here since you went
away you know helen was here just
before you left and i said i thought
she hadent a very good time
i sent a letter to hanna last week a
good long letter urging her as much
as i thought would doo to come and mak
us a good vesit that i particularly
wanted her to come and that she must
write to me as soon as she received
my letter without fail and i suppose
that will be the last of it i put one dollar
in the letter and said i send a little
change but will send more next time
whether she ever gets any of the letters
i dont know) i have had thoughts
of sending a line to Dr thayer what
doo you think of it walter doo you
think it would be best or not) mary
wanted me very much to go to Burlng
and she would stay and keep edd
i told her i dident feel able to
undergo the journey) you know mary
wrote that Ansel
they thought failed
the business was while they were down
in virginia he got a drinking and
John Louisa s husband
got very much
put out with him and throwed his liquor
overboard and they came home ansel
come near dying with the deliru tremes
he was master mason in his lodge
but is broke and gone down to a common man
mary and louisa
belongs to the presbeteran
church but the change of heart we wont
say any thing about she says she is as good
as the rest and have a 20 dol pew and with
sorry to hear her sister is ill