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  My dear Walter

i have got the tuesday letter and two dollars all right the messenger did his duty this time if he never does it again if you get the chicago news i would like to have it i am alone so much evenings i like to have something to read i have been lying down a little while i dident sleep very well last night and i feel awfull stupid so i think i shall make out a stupid letter this time i feel pretty well) mrs Black brought me something to take for the rheumatism yesterday doctor bakers) prescription i took a little this morning but i dont think i shall take it he gave it to her for that complaint she is not very well part of the time she is quite miserable but goes around as usual she often wishes to be remembered to you she got my dress for me i spoke about it suits me very well plain black delaine fine and better than i could have got myself at present) i suppose jeffy is home by this time i got a few lines from him   from Pittsburgh saying his affairs there was better than he expected as the foundry was going on with the engines i believe they had refused to make any more but have concluded to go on they took the contract too low i believe was the trouble) he said he might have staid here till monday as he had to stay there untill friday likewise i have had a letter from matty she is much better she says she had not been well since she left brooklyn untill now she feels reall smart but poor sis she has or had when she wrote the chils and fever she dont shake when the chill is on matty says but looks so deathly she wishes she would have grandma s rocking chair when any thing ailed her here she always wanted the new rocking chair as she called it well walter your extra pay aint decided yet in to days paper but i feel anxious about it too i expect it worries you less than the most of the clerks but at any rate it would come good) george is pretty well he is to work at his inspectorship jeff says as long as lane is in the water works georgey will be) matt said i must tell you she had an envelope all ready directed to you and she would try sometime to put a letter in it and she would write to hanna

good bie walter dear

i beleive smith has commenced making window frames for the house) french does the mason work his bill was 300 dollars less than the other masons his was 1000 and 50 dollar the other was much more