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  Dear Walt

here goes another Of mothers scientific letters when i get desperate i write commit it to paper as you literary folks say well i am rather better of my cold but my coughf still hangs on it always does when i get a cold it seems as if is should never get clear of it but i am better this has been a trying day mat has company Mr and Mrs Ruggles and bothe the young ones has been musical i tell you the little one we had down here till she expanded her lungs merrily poor mat she a roasting beef for   for supper and all the fixings i have not been up stairs but assisted what i could below i suppose i should have gone up but i have a sore foot that i cant wear any but an old sluf shoe i have a bunion on my foot which i thought would be very troublesom but mrs brown gave me some ointment to day and it has eased it very much so i gess it will be well in a day or two)

well walt i will tell how my daily routine without any variations i get up in the morning and not very early between 6 and 7 and make a fire and sweep out and get some coffee and bread and butter butter is 36 cents pr lb dear eating aint it well   by this time Andrew comes lays down part of the time but stays all day untill dark eats his dinner here and then edd goes round for his medicine and when he goes home at night jess or edd goes with him and takes his supper and probably all the rest and that aint all we have Jimmy here too) to night i sent half loaf fresh bread with a lot of flour to make some more if nancy feels disposed) and matty sent roast beef baked quinces apple sauce and parsnips Andrew eats better than he has done he looks very thin but he says his throat is a little better) then add to that i have hatty of coarse and she is very obstropolous and her uncle Andrew says if she was his hed break her neck so you see walt what we go through   every day sundays and all you know Andrew always was testy and jelous i think sometimes i wish i was a hundred miles off i asked him to day what nancy was dooing if she was dooing any sewing he said georgey was so troublesome whether she was always so or we know more about her i dontknow but i think she is about the lazeyest and dirtiest woman i ever want to see she come round here to put a blister on andrew s neck i gave her a pair of trowsers to make jim a pair i said will you make them for the child is not comfortable with those thin trowsers on i made him a pair myself of woolen but i dont know why she dontlet him wear them shes as ugly as she is dirty i dont wonder he used to drink i cant begin to tell you walt it frets me very much she at home all day having a good time with the rent and all paid   and mat and me dooing every thing to make him comfortable when i gave her the trowsers i said have you any thread so i give her thread to make them and thimble i dont believe she has done anythin to them) he is doctoring with dr Brody he has had 2 or 3 blisters on his neck and chest and been leeched i hope he will get better he certainly can eat better matty makes him a rice pudding or custard nearly every day i dont know how we can get along with it all this winter every kind of provition is so very dear i pity Andrew very much but i think sometimes how much more those poor wounded and sick soldiers suffer with so much patience poor souls i think much about them and always glad to hear you speak of them i dont think walt after your being amongst them so long you could content yourself from them it becomes   a kind of fasination and you get attached to so many of the poor young men)

O i am so afraid the rebels will get the better of Burny i hope he will be ready for them sometims i think i wish mead was removed but i know so little about it but the army of the Potomic seems to me to always be a little too late) i doo hope George will remain where he is will they get paid soon doo you think walt i hope he will send me enoughf to not take any from the bank i have given Andrew so much i gave him the 2 dollars you sent i wish walt if you could help them a little now and then we have got to support them untill he gets better if he ever does now i must write about the babes well the little baby is well and fat and prettyer than Hatty she grows tall and not so fat as she was she goes to jamaca with her father O walt dont you never hear from hann it is so strange she never writes

i got your letter yesterday money and all

walt you might almost write a book from this letter