
all alone
i receives your kind letter this morning i was glad to hear from you glad you had a good visit i was fearful you dident have quite as good a time as i wanted you to have we cant be quite as free to talk when any one is present as if we were alone) but if the visit done peter good it dident doo us any particular harm) well walt as you say sometimes in your letters things goes on about the same with me as usual only i have been rather lamer than usual

i beleeve i am worse when i stay in all the time than when i go out i beleive i shall try to go out to morrow if its pleasant i feel the need of going out a little i thought i would not be away if mr Oconor should call but he has not so i think he has returned to washington)
walter dear you needent send me harpers as i procured it the other night

hellen price was here
and spent the day
or it was rather late
when she came nearly
noon but she staid till
nearly evening last
saturday Emily is
married about two or
three weeks ago they
board with mrs
price but are going
to houskeeping mrs
price has not been
well but has got
better except a coughf
ellen had a letter from
Clapp
wishing to
know if you was
in washington as there
was nobody out of
his own family that
he thought so much
of as you that he had
written to you but
had got no answer
he has been to new york
and put up at lessey
farlands
i believe thats
name and she gave him
cloths to make him desent
and there has been a
collection to get him paper
and materials to write
hellen said he was tipsey
nearly all the time
he
was in new york he
wrote to hellen she had the
letter here he was never
so glad to get back out
of new york that all was
changed) george will
be home next saturday
i expect Jeff and all
are about the same