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  1865 My dear Walt

i have been looking for a letter all day but none came so it is saturday night and i am alone for A wonder so i thought i would write you a few lines although my paper is somewha soiled and rather scanty it will let you see we are all in the land of the living i have better paper than this but it is away up stairs and i am too tired to go for it) we have had a terrible murder here as i suppose you see by the papers all spaniards together) well georgee dident get the job of the big house after spending so much time he says he aint much dissappointed as the architect was in favor of the new york bosses perhaps its all for the best it would have been a great care and worriment of mind they will get the job done they are at about chrismas George says) probably something will turn up by that time i tell him to go and see his friends and take things easey i have not had one word from hanna since i came home i want to hear from her very much i often wish i could see her i got thinking about her and other things night before last and i could not get to sleep till most morning   then you know i get up very early most generally a little before day light i dont mind so much after i get down stairs but its something of job for me to get down some mornings i have been very lame more so than usuall) i have got a union with an article about your book i told Jeff to take it and send it to you would you like to have it or dont you care about it) it is not so severe as the one in the nation of the 16th of november tom Rome left it here for me to read he is quite put out about it

i should like for mr Oconner to see that in the nation it is a long piece with flourishes) the one in the union made me laughf you got my letter dident you Walt i wrote last sunday and finished monday about Cornelius s death Jeff and matty and the children are very well indeed martha has a woman to come every day and doo up her work little jimmy comes as usual no more to night with my awful pen

your mother L W