
its quite a spell since i have written at any rate it seemes so to me i should have wrote and said i had received the letter of friday but it was such a dreadful storm saturday then i thought i would wait till to day i have got the one you sent on friday or i got it on friday and one to day both with 5 dollars and the book for mary came friday and the galaxy to day with the ballad of sir ball i had forgotton all about the peice till i see it and then i had to think where i had heard of it and then it came to my mind what piece it was it is signed w i hope nobody will think you wrote it walt)
Mary has gone home to day she has had
a very satisfactory visit but she thought
she must go to day she came last monday
a week ago yesterday) she thinks so much
of her daughter minnie she almost
worships her nothing but what they will
indulge her in)
when martha
was there
she seemed to think they were either
too close or stingy to or hadent the means
but the means they have whether they have
the heart or not to use the means they talk
of selling their place and buying one up
town further and one more stilish
after aunt fanny was buried they had
a division of money that she had laid up
it was equally divided between Ansel
and Noah and george marys son george
mary said she dident know how much
they had but i shouldent wonder if she
did as her son george came down with her
at any rate i gess they will keep what
they have got) poor old woman she s been
saving up i suppose all her life for who
she knows not)
i got a letter from matty
yesterday i havent had one in a long while
they have got nicely fixed matty says and have
laid out 1000 dollars that jeffy
is glad they came
and they get along nicely matti said she was
going to send a box of things to me she said before
she went away she would make me some things
when she got settled and amongst the rest she said she
would send eddy a present too Edd said he thought
matt was the best of all of them)
matty says they was
so glad to get your letter that i must tell you
you must write often and she will write to you
but Jeffy is so busy davis
is with them)
i sent a
small paper of lozenges to the children by davis tied
up with a thread matt said hattie
kised the string
and put it away cause gramma had sent it
no news from hanna yet
i had a letter or package from charley hay three sheets of foolscap paper and a fool wrote on them