
i have got all your
letters and life of john brown
and all
the money and comes real good I can
tell you i just about get dreaned
and that feches me quite right again
we thought you would be through
this week and should begin to look for
you home but your letter says you
are not)
we are all pretty well I
am well i had A pery
bad cold
and coughf when
Jeffy wrote and
had been cleaning house and worked
very hard but i am well now Eddy
is some lame yet he cant
doo much
I think its the rheumattis
Andrew
has got quite well he has been here
three days in sucsession he and jim
I ll tell
you walt all about family
affairs and then I ll
touch on not the fight
nor politicks)
well we
scrach along the
same as usual I paid the rent the month
of april the 5 you sent me
and what
Georg vannostrand
paid me but i am in debt
to ammerman
about 10 dollar not lately
but when mary
was here I had to get so
many things if that was paid I would
feel releived but I cant see any
way at present so we ll hope for the
best we like the people that has taken
the house very well A man and wife
and one son 17 and one 9 years all
but the 9 year one belongs to mr beachers
church she is a long island woman and
very clever they have the back bacement
and the next flour through
and one bedroom in the attic for
14 dollars per month we are a little
crampt in the basement we miss
the water but we ll do the best we can
they want gass very much but I did not
promice it when they hired) George vannostrand
paid me one night and left next morning
without any ceremony we expected him again
left his things here but he has not been)
Fred and bob coopper
was here last sunday
staid till toward evening) and Hector
Tindale
was here last week he looks very fat
and well and behaved very friendly indeed
talked much of his mother says she died of
gout in the stomach
[illegible] she was not
at his house but at her daughters he
said he was from home the Doctor
said there was no danger when he went
she died before his return he thought
you had forgotten him or you
would have sent him a few lines
my pen is so bad