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  Brooklyn 19 Aug 1868 My dear Walt

i recieved your letter yesterday as usual it was all right and am glad to hear you are feeling pretty well and every thing goes on pretty well with you you are so attached to washington i dont beleive you ever would be contented any where else i dont wonder at it for i think you have more true friends there than any other place) i mean those not related to you of course) i suppose it makes you feel awkard to go to mr Oconors their not being friendly and you being friendly to both but when they move it will be different its very disagreable to live in one house and not be on speaking terms i should think the oconors was the last people to fall out with) well Walt here we are yet in the same old place but i doo want to get out of it very much indeed there is so many children and not the best i ever see but a continual traveling up and down from morning till night

 

one good thing their dog is dead he filld the house with fleas so maybe well get clear of them now) george says we must stay here till the 1 of october and then he see what arrangements he can make with smith to take the house all himself and then we shall move there this winter i shall be glad enoughf maybee they will settle it up before i told george i wanted to move before you came home but walter dear if it suits you better to come before that time you must come but i thought i should be so lonesome when i got away from this rabble that i should want you to come then and stay your full month) george has been to florence to the foundry to get some big pipe they fell short and he dont have much to doo now he talks of going up on the island for a day or two) florence is the foundry where jeff has his pipe made when george got there Jeffs inspector was out gunning george left word for him to come to the hotel it was some pipe that jeff had they wanted for this main so when the young man came they told him mr whitman wanted to see he was quite alarmed he thought of course it was jeff george thought he was very glad as he dident care for jeff to find him out gunning) george has got a draft from jeff for 510 doll and got the money without any trouble) now walter dear dont wait till we move if it suits you i make a good deal of rectoneng of your coming

 

i feel pretty well at present