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  20 Jan. 1867 my dear Walt

i must write you a few lines and only a few to let you know how we are i can hardly write on account of lameness in my right arm down toward my wrist it has been over a week at first i thought it was going to gather but it has not yet but is swolen and at times pains me quite bad but i make out to doo around but i cant lift much with it i have rubbed it with one a but it dont seem to doo much good george says i must put slippery elm poultice but perhaps it will get better in time but it is so bad when i make bread and crullers george wants them to take down he was up yesterday and the day before he wasent up from last saturday night till wensday not last night but saturday week it was so bad and such snow banks last week one day a waggon and six horses got stuck on the avenu the cars dident run those was pasengers from flatbush i suppose but they had to walk down Jeffy said they were two hours getting out O walt it is terrible here in the winter matt is getting as tired of it as i am it will not look like any thing again even in the summer its all dug and redug between this and the avenu great trenches it looks like destruction ) we are all pretty well except my arm and sis she aint very well she is by my side asleep in the rocking chair   its very rare for me to be without them i get very tired of them i often feel as if i wished to be quiet if only for one hour matty has no help so the young ones live up here perbasco has put up here since yesterday so they have it) georges horse ran away the other day from the lumber yard run till she got fast in a snow drift he thinks it wont hurt her that she wont run again she is a nice horse only 5 years old well walt Jeff talks of coming to washington he is going somewhere else and talks of coming there to stay one night talks of coming next tuesday matt says he has talked of coming so many times and not come) for me to not say any thing about it but i think he will come this time maybee not tuesday but some times during the week)

i receive your letter and money and envelopes as usual walt last wensday davis s man always brings them to me i feel so glad walt you can go to see the poor fellows in the hospital and carry them a cake i suppose its quite a treat to them good bie walt write mrs mix s address if i ever get out of the snow maybee i can call and see her

good bie again Walter with many thanks for your remembrance of your mother