
i got your letter
yesterday with the money
all safe i feel
quite rich when i get it and dislike to
change it but i have too for our georgy
has been so hard for money lately
that i dont ask for it if i did and
he had any i make no doubt but
he would give it to me) Jeffy
let him have 150 dolr a few days ago
O ive got a letter from han i have
read it and will send it to you
walt
i was so glad to hear from
her once more i thought when hattie
brought it up it was from you i
was a little frightened at first
seeing your writing dident look
at first at the burlington
my not being in the habit of getting
any only wensdays then i wach
for the messenger O dear walt
aint we having it
here in storms
and gales of wind it is awful what
times we have i have just got warm
since morning i have put a blanket
up to the window to keep the wind out
when its northeast its almost impossible
to keep warm i have had a pretty
hard winter so far but am in
hopes it will be over after a while
it has been almost as much as your
life was worth to get to the privy
it is so decending and slippery
i doo hope i shant have to live
here another winter i know i migh
be much worse off but it is so bad
for me to live up stairs such
crooked ones as these
they have company yet down
stairs they go out almost every night
last week i hardly went to bed till
twelve or after they go to new york
and come up in the last car last
night they come about 12 jeff had
a cup of tea here which made it
almost 1 before i got to bed davis s
cousin
is here nearly half of his time
Mr Rice
and masons sister
is here
mat and she is going to philadelphe
to morrow i hope when she comes
back she will settle down
and be a little like herself
i hardly see her she s so engaged
in company and dress you know
i wrote about sis swallowing the peny
the next day morning matty and her
friend went out so i kept sis and
wached her and the penny passed
through her when her mother came
home she never asked any thing about
it so i wouldent tell her i told
jeff he was very much worried but
but she s all well
she says she calafornia
when uncle comes home
well walt
i cant write much more my arm
gets so weak and lame it is quite
troublsome i am in hopes when the weather
becomes warmer it will get better
George has just been up and tells
me they have sold one of the houses
to the captain he was captain of the
contest taken by the alabamans
in the war times)
this peice was
cut out of the williamsburg
times