
i
have just receeved your
letter with 1 dollar in it the rain perhaps deterd
my getting it earlyer but i was glad to
get it any how glad to hear from you that
you are having time to take some recreations
and very glad to have the dollar you
will say a dollar aint much but
sometimes it is worth more than 2 or 3 at
another time george has had more
than usual to pay this month in sessments
and insurance but i have had quite
considerable from him so i wanted
a letter to day and it come from
the good old stand by) Jeffy
worried
quite much because he couldent leave
me something in the way of a present but
he said he had to pay so much more
away than he expected that he was
rather short but he would send me
some when he got back
i told him
i got along very well to not worry
about that he went away tuesday
night he is not going strait home
but will arrive home if nothing happens
on monday night we had company almost
all of last week which made me more
short of funds but i dident want for
anything) george has got the galaxy
just come with it
walt i suppose you
see that little peice in the thursday
times
about your being the only american
poet i cut it out and was going to send
it to jeff if you havent seen it i will
send it to you georgey is quit pumping
on the water works mr Lane
puts
great confidence in him the new mane
that was laid last fall leaks in many
places george had to go the other night
to see about it mr lane came here very
much alarmed it spouts out almost lik a fountain
so yesterday they stopped it george was
mud from head to foot) walter dear
give my love to mr and mrs Oconer
likewise the boroughs
and take the
rest for yourself
aint the galaxy large and reel nice