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  Brooklyn 27 April 1867 my dear Walt

i have just receeved your letter with 1 dollar in it the rain perhaps deterd my getting it earlyer but i was glad to get it any how glad to hear from you that you are having time to take some recreations and very glad to have the dollar you will say a dollar aint much but sometimes it is worth more than 2 or 3 at another time george has had more than usual to pay this month in sessments and insurance but i have had quite considerable from him so i wanted a letter to day and it come from the good old stand by) Jeffy worried quite much because he couldent leave me something in the way of a present but he said he had to pay so much more away than he expected that he was rather short but he would send me some when he got back i told him i got along very well to not worry about that he went away tuesday   night he is not going strait home but will arrive home if nothing happens on monday night we had company almost all of last week which made me more short of funds but i dident want for anything) george has got the galaxy just come with it walt i suppose you see that little peice in the thursday times about your being the only american poet i cut it out and was going to send it to jeff if you havent seen it i will send it to you georgey is quit pumping on the water works mr Lane puts great confidence in him the new mane that was laid last fall leaks in many places george had to go the other night to see about it mr lane came here very much alarmed it spouts out almost lik a fountain so yesterday they stopped it george was mud from head to foot) walter dear give my love to mr and mrs Oconer likewise the boroughs and take the rest for yourself

good bie

aint the galaxy large and reel nice