M 30 evening
My dear Walt
all alone
i receives
your kind letter this morning
i was glad to hear from
you glad you had a good
visit i was fearful you
dident didn't have quite as good
a time as i wanted you
to have we cant can't be quite
as free to talk when any
one is present as if we
were alone) but if the
visit done peter good it
dident didn't doo do us any particular
harm) well walt as
you say sometimes
in your letters things
goes on about the same
with me as usual
only i have been rather
lamer than usual
i beleeve believe i am worse
when i stay in all the
time than when i go out
i beleive believe i shall try to
go out to morrow tomorrow if its it's
pleasant i feel the need
of going out a little
i thought i would not
be away if mr Oconor
should call but
he has not so i think
he has returned
to washington Washington)
walter dear you needent needn't
send me harpers as
i procured it the other
night
hellen price was here
and spent the day
or it was rather late
when she came nearly
noon but she staid stayed till
nearly evening last
saturday Saturday Emily is
married about two or
three weeks ago they
board with mrs
price but are going
to houskeeping mrs
price has not been
well but has got
better except a coughf cough
ellen had a letter from
Clapp
wishing to
know if you was
in washington Washington as there
was nobody out of
his own family that
he thought so much
of as you that he had
written to you but
had got no answer
he has been to new york
and put up at lessey
farlands
i believe thats that's
name and she gave him
cloths clothes to make him desentdecent
and there has been a
collection to get him paper
and materials to write
hellen said he was tipseytipsy
nearly all the time
he
was in new york New York he
wrote to hellen she had the
letter here he was never
so glad to get back out
of new york New York that all was
changed) george will
be home next saturday Saturday
i expect Jeff and all
are about the same
good bie walter dear