
i got your letter of sunday and
monday and the papers
all come to day tuesday
i am always glad to get a letter from you walter
dear i wish i could get one every day O walt if
you could only say you was well once more
i doo pray for your recovery walt and i doo
think you will be restored to health again
it is very tedious to be so long disabled and your
head you speak about being so bad how does it
feel walter dear do you have dissiness is it a
heavy feeling
either is bad enoughf i think any thing
the matter with the head affects the whole system
i wish you could have a change you have been
so long and so much alone but i hope you dont
get down spirited) it sometimes comes on a person
before they are aware of it) i got very nervous
after matty s death and have such a choaking sensation
but i know what makes me its thinking and
fretting but i try to not think of things any more than
i can help) george is up to his eys in business he
is very anxious to get all the work he can
his house
is begun the cellar is dug and the foundation
laid he is going to build a three story brick house
with an extention parlor and dining room and
kitchen and shed on the first floor the man does it
all for i beleive its 38 hundred dollars puts in a
range in the kitchen and bath and i believe privee
and water closet there is no fireplaces except in
the kitchen but one chimney peice in the whole house
that chimney peice in the parlor he is to purchase himself
no places for stove pipes) george says he thinks he
will lose money on it) if we ever build walt
which i hope we shall
i dont think it will be quite
so extensive) the cheapest house that you could build
would be a 2 story house with 2 rooms below and 2 rooms
above with a shed kichen with no fireplace in the
house except in the kichen there to have a good size
fireplace so walter dear we can have our washing
done) there is ways for ventilation without fereplaces
and its much cheaper to have stove pipes than firplaces
what do you think of my plan walt we couldent
have many visitors to stay all night
well walt i dont know whether you will
like to hear about our house affairs if you
dont want to hear about it dont turn over
the paper as its all on this side
you remember i told you they thought Louisa was in the family way they think so still george and aunty i doubt if it is so but georgey is very much pleased and they wont let her hardly move yesterday she dident come down stairs all day monday) her aunt went to her daughter sunday night and has only come back to day so i took up her meals all day yesterday but to day she has come down but lays on the sofa) i think her aunt will live with them Lou says george likes to have her here and he does i make no doubt he make a great time with her folks) i liked it better before her aunt came they want to be by themselves
walt what did you think of Josephenes letter she is a very nice girl
i got a letter from helen to day she and her ma wants me to come to their house and stay a while but i shall never go of course but its very kind of them
write again walt this week
we will hope for the best wont we walter dear
there was a man here to day that had put out some trees for george and george left the money to pay him and i went to the alley to pay him as lou was lying down and i was lame and he said if i would get a pint of the best whiskey and put 2 teaspoonfuls of salt peter in it and take a teaspoonful night and morning it would help me and bath with it too he said i dont know as i shall get it but if you think of it walter sometime when your doctor is there you may ask him about it i have heard of something simular being good for rhumatis
we have the doctor here most every day but i dont put faith in him