
i will resume
my corresspondence again
haint you missed my
letters very much i am
quite glad to resume again
well maty is gone she
started monday at 5 oclock
i suppose if she has met
with no delays she is home
to night we miss her very
much although we have had
company every day this
week helen price was here
on monday and mrs Black
yesterday and a lady to day
has just gone after staying
to tea and i got it with such
pain that i could hardly
keep from groaning the
matter is i have been on my
feet so much lately that
i have suffered very much
and to day i thought i would
keep still and try to get
rested but i shall go to
bed soon and try to rest
we have had quite a number
of people to see matt but
only called mrs Lane
and mrs kirkwood they only
called)
but we had anna vanwyk
2 days last week and altogether
i got kind of worked down
but i shall get rested now
i think it was much better for
matt to not go to washington
this winter but she made such
preperations for it that she
could hardly give it up
say to mrs Oconor that
marthe thanked her for her
kind letter and will write
to her as soon as she gets
a little rested from he journy
remember me also to mr and
mrs Oconor and Jennie also
martha was very much better
when she left than when she came
you cant think how she improvee
before she went away she had
a good appetite when she came
she could not eat but very
litle the doctor sounded her lungs
with rather favorable result
her left lung is good and three
fourths of the right one) it had
not made such progress as he
anticipated) she slept up stairs
but had no fire except the
very cold nights as it made her
coughf) she wants to come
out there without fail) davis has been
here
on his way to lowel
he said
he never was in a place he liked
so well as st louis

matt
has a beautifull gold watch
Jeff got that before he left
and a large
plated ice picker and lots of things and
left her 40 dollars well matt like she see
so many things she wanted that she got
through with all the money george
was to let her have what money she wanted
by Jeffs wish and George went away before
the 1 of the month and dident get his salary
he told me to give matty the rent but as
we have a new comer down stairs a girl baby
they were a little behind in paying the rent
so she wrote to Jeff and he sent
her a draft for 50 dollars and i let her
have 5 dol she had none too much to go such
a journey i hope she is safe home
matt is as kind to me as she can be she said she would she would send the 5 back when she got home i wished her to take it s now walter dear i must close as i want eddy to put it in the box to night we had a terrible storm here this morng but cleared off the afterno) your letter and contents came all safe walte dear
good be this tim