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  8 April 1873 My dear walt

i got your letter of sunday and monday and the papers all come to day tuesday i am always glad to get a letter from you walter dear i wish i could get one every day O walt if you could only say you was well once more i doo pray for your recovery walt and i doo think you will be restored to health again it is very tedious to be so long disabled and your head you speak about being so bad how does it feel walter dear do you have dissiness is it a heavy feeling either is bad enoughf i think any thing the matter with the head affects the whole system i wish you could have a change you have been so long and so much alone but i hope you dont get down spirited) it sometimes comes on a person before they are aware of it) i got very nervous after matty s death and have such a choaking sensation but i know what makes me its thinking and fretting but i try to not think of things any more than i can help) george is up to his eys in business he is very anxious to get all the work he can his house is begun the cellar is dug and the foundation laid he is going to build a three story brick house with an extention parlor and dining room and kitchen and shed on the first floor the man does it all for i beleive its 38 hundred dollars puts in a range in the kitchen and bath and i believe privee and water closet there is no fireplaces except in the kitchen but one chimney peice in the whole house that chimney peice in the parlor he is to purchase himself no places for stove pipes) george says he thinks he will lose money on it) if we ever build walt which i hope we shall i dont think it will be quite so extensive) the cheapest house that you could build would be a 2 story house with 2 rooms below and 2 rooms above with a shed kichen with no fireplace in the house except in the kichen there to have a good size fireplace so walter dear we can have our washing done) there is ways for ventilation without fereplaces and its much cheaper to have stove pipes than firplaces what do you think of my plan walt we couldent have many visitors to stay all night   well walt i dont know whether you will like to hear about our house affairs if you dont want to hear about it dont turn over the paper as its all on this side

you remember i told you they thought Louisa was in the family way they think so still george and aunty i doubt if it is so but georgey is very much pleased and they wont let her hardly move yesterday she dident come down stairs all day monday) her aunt went to her daughter sunday night and has only come back to day so i took up her meals all day yesterday but to day she has come down but lays on the sofa) i think her aunt will live with them Lou says george likes to have her here and he does i make no doubt he make a great time with her folks) i liked it better before her aunt came they want to be by themselves

walt what did you think of Josephenes letter she is a very nice girl

i got a letter from helen to day she and her ma wants me to come to their house and stay a while but i shall never go of course but its very kind of them

write again walt this week

we will hope for the best wont we walter dear

there was a man here to day that had put out some trees for george and george left the money to pay him and i went to the alley to pay him as lou was lying down and i was lame and he said if i would get a pint of the best whiskey and put 2 teaspoonfuls of salt peter in it and take a teaspoonful night and morning it would help me and bath with it too he said i dont know as i shall get it but if you think of it walter sometime when your doctor is there you may ask him about it i have heard of something simular being good for rhumatis

we have the doctor here most every day but i dont put faith in him