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  1868 (?) well walter dear

i couldent let the week pass without writing a line or two i got your letter last week with the money order and the big book and wasent i glad it has so much to read about it will keep me quite a long time i doo so like to have somethg to read i am alone so much i have been down and got the order cashed and am going to have something good for the new year s dinner i dident make any preperations for   christmas) O walt aint it sad about that young woman perhaps if she hadent got married she would have got over it the excitement probably aggravated the disease) it is sad indeed to read although strangers) i got the letter this morning all letters come first rate) i gave the carrier a dollar for his christmas he was much pleased such things go a great ways in having him punctual) i am as well as usual sleep pretty well i went down to gill s and got a stove for the back room on georgeys credit i have some company not very much i see a short account of the richm fire but i had no idea it was so horrible) with many thanks for money and books i remain yo affectionte mother

 

Love to mrs and mr Oconer