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  13 april 1870 My dear walt

i have received your letter to day the 13t i also got the papers on saturday i am pretty well but my lameness that is bad enoughf my legs pains me real bad some nights i cant sleep if i am on my feet much through the day i try to favor myself as much as i can i have got a woman to clean house but it all dont seem to doo) Jeff is here or he aint just here now but he was here this morning he came to new york   with mr Crosier one of the commissioners they think of starting to night for st louis i expect him back now very soon he left home last thursday a week ago to morrow

he says matty is quite smart that the children aint half as good as they were when matt was away i had a few lines from charley Heyd the other day he says han is as well as she ever will be that she is not very well that she will write me a letter that she had got mine and your letters it is real warm to day here no more this time george is away i have had a letter from mary also i wrote to her of Jesses death