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  Brooklyn 14 April 1869 My dear Walt

your letter has come to day all right i looked some for it yesterday but its just as well to day) i havent had any letter from jeff nor matty since i wrote last to you but as you have had one from Jeffy i suppose they are about the same)

Jeffy was to send a draft to George the first of the month for two hundred dollars but it has not come to my knowlegee without mr Lane has sent it on to George i expect him home to morrow or next day i hope he will come as the doors of the house is not got yet smith works but seemes to depend wholly on George his loan was to be got to morrow on his house i dont know whether he will wait till george comes or not George said before he went away smith wouldent have got the money if he george hadent applied) they say quite a good many buildings in brooklyn has had to stop on account of not getting money on them i think ours will be so we can move about the first of may the walls are all done and the stairs up George wanted smith to get some more help to finish up he has but one man so far but if george comes he will see to it i suppose)

well walter dear i went down to the post office and got the money and i have got lots of things for myself i thought now was my time well i have a new bonnet making not quite   so fashionable as the eagle advertises the new bonnets one was a love of a bonnet consisting of two yards of ribbon and a rosebud) well i think the hats is awful) well when i went to the post office it was in the forenoon i was some lame but i thought i would ride down to sand st and call and see mrs Brown i dident think it was quite so far but i found it and she was very glad indeed to see me got a nice dinner and made me stay i beleive its the first meal i have eaten away from home since i come from Burlington if Jeff and matt knew i had been to see mrs Brown they would cross me off their books so you mustent let on so i have had a letter from Charley heyde full as moderate as usuall rather more so he deplores his fate as usual says han is pretty well can use her two fore fingers some that she has very many drsses to make but wears nothing but ragged dresses i wish han had more exertion about herself i sent the money george gave me for her to get her things made if she couldent make them herself) he says the doctor orders her to take salts every morning fore her blood as she is flushed in her face) he says she has commenced a letter to me maybee i shall get it some time i see by the paper exmayor Booth is to be the post master of Brooklyn) i make out a letter walter dear) mrs steers does remarkably well here she thinks she was fortunate to get this place) i am pretty well trying to favor myself for the coming 1 of may i congratulate mrs Oconer for not having to move so you can go there and have tea