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  1870 Walter dear

i received your letter yesterday was glad to hear you was as well in regard to your lame thumb as you are i feel quite smart to day and yesterday it is much cooler the hot days does seem to take me down it has been some pretty hot days here but is quite comfortable to day) i had a letter from han last week she seems pretty well wants me to come there very much indeed i wrote to her that i dident know how to undertake the journeey in my condition being at times so very lame i dont think i could go any how if i wasent lame i have got a dress and a few things to send her but i cant go there this summer i suppose Charley heyde wrote he had paid all for his house if he was a decent man they might live quite comfortable but that will never be

 

davis was here yesterday he is employed at lowel as cheif engineer he is not going to st louis till september and then he will stop here again he says he has many little petty annoyances so he thought he would come to new york for a few days i told him i beleived there was always something in every department some one sort and some another but there must be a something i expect he feels any little thing more not having Jeff to condole with him he is quite nervious and irritable at times he looks firs rate george is away wont come i dont think till about the 4th so walt you are going to have quite a great change in your department for better or for worser i suppose time will tell i see awfull things said about putting in Ackerman the ex rebel as he is called) i havent heard from st louis in a long time your letters is mostly all the corresspondence i have) no more this time

good bie walter dear L W