
Your letter came to hand the first of this week and I was glad to hear from you but
very sorry to hear of your loss of health & bereavement this liaves leaves
me and family all well my little Boy is growing very fast and is getting
as fat as he can be Worke Work
is very dul dull
here I have only about two days work in a week and
the wages are small I do not everage average
two dollars a day when I work I am working on locks I do not like the
place here and shall get away from here as soon as I can How Is I
work there I can work at most any thing that comes along I should like
very much to see you and if every thing goes well I may come on to see you this
summer I got a little behind through the winter and have not quite caught up yet I
have got a little Buisness Business
out side of my work which I do Evenings
I am connected with Sovererns Sovereigns
of Industry I Sell Butter & Sigars Cigars
and that helps me a great deal so that I manadge manage
to get along And I think by the first of June I shall be all square here
We deal with a firm in Philadefia Philadelphia
Clother Bennett & Co Tower Hall I think it is in Market St there is a
Mr Walters with them and he is coming on here soon to take Orders and Measament Measurement
for the Soverns Sovereigns
Do you remember meeting a yong young
Lady with me at the corner of Fulton and Court Sts once that is my wife
she remembers you well so good by bye
for this time I
will try to write oftener in future we all send love