
being its
Cristmas i thought i woud
write just A very few lines i told mat you would
have enoughf letter reading
for to day in her letter
it has been long time coming
but has come at last
Jeffy
got home last night
but will go away again
on monday next to be
absent all the week
i am
always sorry when he s
gone it has such an
affect on matty she gets
fretted with things but we
all have our spels of good
and spels of bad) i must
tell you before i forget it
i have been quite sick for
A day or two only so i took
a dose of medicing what
i have not done befor in
years i dont think it done
me any good one or two
nights i thought my
throat was all filled up
conceited
a little i gess
then in the morning it would
be much better it is nearly
well now) well we have
had our dinner not turkeys
nor geese but pot pie
made of mutton matty
and hattie
and all took
dinner down here and
supper last night so you
see i donteat up stairs
very often but i feel just
as well satisfied) you
know they wont have Jess
up stairs now so we have
the benefit of the children
down stairs
i dont mind
the baby but i really
think hattie is the worst
child i ever had any
thing to doo with so very
ugly with her mischieving
i think under all circumstances
if i can pay a little
more rent and can get
a place i shall move
in the spring this place
is cheap but it is too much
for me to go so far up stairs
i thought some nights
when i felt so bad i never
could get to the top) but
if we live we ll see what
spring will bring forth
nancy and the children
is well Jimmy has got well
she goes it yet in the
street matty told you
i suppose about going
there and her being out
of things she probably was
out of some things i had
given her that week 1 dol 60 cnts
she said she got medicine
with the most of it but
walt if she d work as
i doo she might live very
comfortable with her
rent paid and so much
given to her but she dont
appear to think she ought
to doo any thing but run
around and gossip
poor Andrew he s out
the troubles of this world
how he did to live as
long as he did is a mistery
she has got or had 30 dollar
and the man that got the
chest says he will set it
up again and give her
the proceeds
they are going
to get her a sewing mashine
but i think it will doobut little
good) i got your letter
walt about Jesse Jeffy
must have wrote very strong
about him
Dr ruggles is
very much interested in him
wel walt jessy is a very
great trouble to me to
be sure and dont appreceate
what i doo for him but he
is no more deranged than
he has been for the last 3 years
i think it would be very
bad for him to be put in
the lunatic assiliym if he
had some light employment
but that seems hard to get
i could not find it in my heart to put him there without
i see something that would
make it usafe for me too have him
he is very passionate
almost to frenzy and
always was but of course
his brain is very weak
but at the time of his
last blow out we had
every thing to confuse and
irritate we had nanc s
children here 2 days and
hatty and his going there
and seeing Andrew
lie dead
he cried very
much every time he heard
them speak of him where
or at the funeral i fixed
him all up and he kept
georgee
down stairs untill
nancy got in the carriage
and then he brougth him
out to her and got in the
carriage i went in the
carriage with her and
Jeff and matty and Eddy
in the next) i think Walt
what a poor unfortunate
creature he has been
what a life he has
lived that as long as
i can get any thing
for him to eat i would
rather work and take
care of him that is as
long as i see no danger
of him)
Mrs Cobb Charlee sister was to see me the other day she was very clever indeed said charlee wrote to her i had lost a son and she thought she must come to see me our little california is splendid she s fatter than ever i hope these lines will find you well
good bie my dear walt