
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