
here goes
another Of mothers scientific
letters when i get desperate
i write commit it to paper
as you literary folks say
well i am rather better
of my cold but my coughf
still hangs on it always
does when i get a cold
it seems as if is should never
get clear of it but i am better
this has been a trying day
mat has company Mr and
Mrs Ruggles and bothe the
young ones has been musical
i tell you the little one
we had down here till
she expanded her lungs
merrily poor mat she
a roasting beef for
for supper and all the
fixings i have not been up
stairs but assisted what i
could below i suppose i should
have gone up but i have a
sore foot that i cant wear
any but an old sluf shoe
i have a bunion on my
foot which i thought
would be very troublesom
but mrs brown gave me
some ointment to day
and it has eased it very
much so i gess it will
be well in a day or two)
well walt i will tell
how my daily routine
without any variations
i get up in the morning
and not very early between
6 and 7 and make a fire
and sweep out and get
some coffee and bread and
butter butter is 36 cents pr lb
dear eating aint it well
by this time Andrew
comes lays down part of the time
but stays all day untill
dark eats his dinner here
and then edd goes round
for his medicine and when
he goes home at night jess
or edd goes with him and
takes his supper and probably
all the rest and that aint
all we have Jimmy here
too) to night i sent half loaf
fresh bread with a lot of flour
to make some more if nancy
feels disposed) and matty sent
roast beef baked quinces
apple sauce and parsnips
Andrew eats better than he
has done he looks very thin
but he says his throat is a
little better) then add to that
i have hatty of coarse
and she is very obstropolous
and her uncle Andrew says
if she was his hed break
her neck so you see walt
what we go through
every day sundays and all
you know Andrew always
was testy and jelous i think
sometimes i wish i was a hundred
miles off i asked him to day
what nancy was dooing if she
was dooing any sewing he
said georgey was so troublesome
whether she was always so
or we know more about her
i dontknow but i think she
is about the lazeyest and
dirtiest woman i ever want to see
she come round here to put
a blister on andrew s neck
i gave her a pair of trowsers
to make jim a pair i said
will you make them for
the child is not comfortable
with those thin trowsers on
i made him a pair myself
of woolen but i dont know
why she dontlet him wear
them shes as ugly as she is
dirty i dont wonder he used
to drink i cant begin to tell
you walt it frets me
very much she at home all
day having a good time
with the rent and all paid
and mat and me dooing
every thing to make him comfortable
when i gave her the trowsers i
said have you any thread so i give
her thread to make them and thimble
i dont believe she has done anythin to them)
he is doctoring with dr Brody
he has had 2 or 3 blisters on
his neck and chest and been
leeched i hope he will
get better he certainly can
eat better matty makes him
a rice pudding or custard
nearly every day i dont know
how we can get along with
it all this winter every kind
of provition is so very dear
i pity Andrew very much
but i think sometimes how
much more those poor
wounded and sick soldiers
suffer with so much patience
poor souls i think much
about them and always glad
to hear you speak of them
i dont think walt after your
being amongst them so long
you could content yourself
from them it becomes
a kind of fasination and
you get attached to so many
of the poor young men)
O i am so afraid the rebels will get the better of Burny i hope he will be ready for them sometims i think i wish mead was removed but i know so little about it but the army of the Potomic seems to me to always be a little too late) i doo hope George will remain where he is will they get paid soon doo you think walt i hope he will send me enoughf to not take any from the bank i have given Andrew so much i gave him the 2 dollars you sent i wish walt if you could help them a little now and then we have got to support them untill he gets better if he ever does now i must write about the babes well the little baby is well and fat and prettyer than Hatty she grows tall and not so fat as she was she goes to jamaca with her father O walt dont you never hear from hann it is so strange she never writes
i got your letter yesterday money and all
walt you might almost write a book from this letter