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  1868 My dear walter

its quite a spell since i have written at any rate it seemes so to me i should have wrote and said i had received the letter of friday but it was such a dreadful storm saturday then i thought i would wait till to day i have got the one you sent on friday or i got it on friday and one to day both with 5 dollars and the book for mary came friday and the galaxy to day with the ballad of sir ball i had forgotton all about the peice till i see it and then i had to think where i had heard of it and then it came to my mind what piece it was it is signed w i hope nobody will think you wrote it walt)

Mary has gone home to day she has had a very satisfactory visit but she thought she must go to day she came last monday a week ago yesterday) she thinks so much of her daughter minnie she almost worships her nothing but what they will indulge her in) when martha was there she seemed to think they were either   too close or stingy to or hadent the means but the means they have whether they have the heart or not to use the means they talk of selling their place and buying one up town further and one more stilish after aunt fanny was buried they had a division of money that she had laid up it was equally divided between Ansel and Noah and george marys son george mary said she dident know how much they had but i shouldent wonder if she did as her son george came down with her at any rate i gess they will keep what they have got) poor old woman she s been saving up i suppose all her life for who she knows not) i got a letter from matty yesterday i havent had one in a long while they have got nicely fixed matty says and have laid out 1000 dollars that jeffy is glad they came and they get along nicely matti said she was going to send a box of things to me she said before she went away she would make me some things when she got settled and amongst the rest she said she would send eddy a present too Edd said he thought matt was the best of all of them) matty says they was so glad to get your letter that i must tell you you must write often and she will write to you but Jeffy is so busy davis is with them) i sent a small paper of lozenges to the children by davis tied up with a thread matt said hattie kised the string and put it away cause gramma had sent it

good bie walter dear

no news from hanna yet

i had a letter or package from charley hay three sheets of foolscap paper and a fool wrote on them