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Brooklyn 17 Feb. 1868   dear Walt

i have got this letter by times it is only half past 12 on monday and i have got it the one was mailed on sunday i mean and i couldent rest contented untill i wrote to let you know i had got it with the 5 dollar and i got one on saturday with 2 doller so you see i can stand another snow storm and be comfortable but i dont think it will be much of a storm this time) also i got all the papers last week and have got three to day with the letter the letter man is most too clever the 50 cts and i have given him 25 since) i find giving such people a small sum once in a while does much good and i always say thank you when he gives me a letter i dont know what i would have done yesterday without those papers i had harpers weekly and the papers so i got through the day quite well) i got a letter from matty to day she likes it very well there now she has got acquainted with some of the boarders one lady invited her out to ride in a beautiful carriage she says she has been so awfull homesick she has got over in in some measure but i expect matt wants to see me she misses me more than she thought she should but when they get keeping house she will get better contented there is a first rate   school near where they are going to live so hattee can go i would send the letter but i think she will write to you herself soon well Walt molly hasent come yet i expected her sure them fine days last week i wrote two letters to her saying in the last one we should expect her the first good day) i wish i could get a letter from han i wrote very particularly about it that you wrote often to her that we supposed she got them but we never heard from her and i wanted her to come this spring and make us a good visit but i have not had any answer)

george is away yet i looked some for him yesterday but he dident come mrs Hageman where he used to board was buried yesterday i dident know she was sick till i see her death in the eagle (the old eagle how i dislike it yet i take it if i dident see any other paper i should think andy was perfection and all the rest was crushed general grant in the bargain) he must be a bad man i like the chronicle very much) i was in hopes mrs Oconor had returned for his sake if he is not very well it would probably make him more comfortable) matty says Jeffy is much better there than in brooklyn he is in very good spirits and glad they came i have expected davis all last week but he is to come this week matty says) but they will eventually she says settle in brooklyn i hope soon to say something about mooving we are getting rather to many in this house for mammas ideas good luck to you walter dear dont you remember your poor old father always wished that wish to every one

good bie LW