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  15 July 1868 Well Walter dear

i write again to let you know we are all in the land of the living had a pretty hard squeese to worry through but we have got along so far all pretty well considering this awful weather we have had) these rooms is quite cool if there is any air at all but monday night we had to keep shut up all the front part of the house on sunday there was one of the car horses died and he laid just acrost the street and he laid there till tuesday and the whole neighborhood was distressed with the smell the horses dropt from the cars in several other routs   well walt i got the letter tuesday this week it dont make any very material difference only i get figgety for fear its stolen there dont seem to be quite so much complaint of loosing letters as there was at one time) i hope you will keep well walter you are very carefull i know i think its so nessary to be i wish george was half as carefull they havent done much on the main till to day they have been raising the stone from where the old tunnel was filled up so they havent laid much pipe till to day so it was well for george as it wouldent take much to get him to feel the effects of the heat

 

georges house is raised was raised last saturday three story and cellar with stone under smith is in a hurry to get it done as he is going to oversee frenches buildings) i seldom hear from the st lou is folks they are very slow to write i wrote a letter to matty telling her i just wrote to let her know mamma lived in brooklyn yet i think matti might write oftener as for han i dont know as i shall ever hear from her it seems so strange if they was old and lame like me i   shouldent think so strange well i suppose they all have enoughf to doo) o walter the nomanation aint it great i wish you could see the eagle it is worse than ever all the respectable radicals is in favor of seymore the eagle says they are nearly all copperheads around here but they are kinly put aback if chase had only been the one they would have carried everything before them

good bie walter dear take care of yourself and i will try to doo the same i am pretty well L Whitman