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  1867 my dear Walt

i will try once more to write A line to say we are all about the same only the hot weather is disappeard in some measure it was bad enoughf here we had awfull bad smells mr hambler said it came from the privy s in pacific st the yards in that street backs up to ours but they are very or quite respectable houses he said he had complained to the board of health but whither they have done any thing or not we dont smell it to day) the sewer i believe is not in that street there is a water closet in this yard when we came here it was all out of order dident work at all I told the man I wished he would have it fixed but he dident doo it then i told the landlady it made me sick every time i went in so after a while he went to work and fixed it they are so fraid of laying out one cent and want such A high rent I paid him the rent last night that makes fifty doll since we have been) here we pay in advance i told george 300 dolrs A year would help on a house its too much rent but we couldent doo no better then if we only had one more room or the bedrooms were any size but they are so small the rooms is very deep but not very wide they are 40 feet deep i got so many envelopes i shall have to write whether im lame or not they all come safe Walt and i was glad   to have them it is so handy to have in the hand the money and the package all come yesterday i think this letter carrier is very correct i dont know whats the matter with matt i havent had a letter from her in quite a long time i expected one yesterday to be shure i got one from mary it was for matty but it was directed mrs Whitman city hall care of mr lane so they sent it here she was to portsmouth when she wrote but was coming home and wrote for matt to come to greenport but i gess mat wont go this summer) Edd went down and found where nancy lived yesterday she moved in the same st they are all fat edd says and dirty but grow any how he said the house looked better than formerly i was glad to hear from them i have thought about them often this hot weather i feel to sympathise with mr Oconor in his getting a house i think its about the worst and most disagreable fix any one can be in Walt doo you know i like his writings the good gray poet better than i doo borroughs book Oconers shows the spirit its wrote in i should form an idea of the man if i had never seen him by reading his writing i suppose you see that peice in the sunday times as you dident say any thing about it i will send it i wish september would hurry up so you could come we will make out for room so come as soon as you can) george is pretty well now

good bie walter