Newark Apr 12^th/63

 

            Dear Friend Bill,

                                    I fierd I have not got a deasent sheat of paper to write on so I will do the best I can with this. I received your letter last week and was glad that you was well and got home without geting your neck brooke I should think that you would never want to see Licking again nor none of its inhabitants I do not think I should if I had seen the ups & downs that you gents did but how does Johney feel. Jane has a black & blue spot on her arm where she fel. She hirt her more than I had any idea If I had known I should not have laughed so 

 

Jane came to Newark on Friday and went to a plase or the next hous to where I live She has a nice place if she can do the work, but they are quite stilish and there is lots to do. I hope she can get a long so I can have her for company. I left Sister Maries on Wednesday of the same week that you was there and get a long very nicely. I should like to see you all often. how are the girls. I got a letter from B—David he has had a nice trip to Baltimore Mariland and has seen a good deal of Virginia all was well the last I hird from home. I should think you had a rather a funny trip from first to last. I have not got any news to give you onley the girls are or was glad to see me back Bill, you would / laugh to see my widower I was going down street the other eve, and met him, so he walked home with me, and as I was going in the hous he called me back and asked me to take a short walk with him that he wished to talk with me. And as he is the deacon of our Church I began to wonder what I had done wrong. I then turned back and told him that my work was not yet finished, but if he wished me to I would go a little wayes. So the first thing was to ask me for my company. you may imagine how riged I was. I will tell you the rest some other time, but it is a gay joke I have been watching with a sick woman to nights since I came back and will go to morrow eve a gain 

 

I had a nice ride into the country one beautiful moonlight eve since I came back I have been cleaning hous since I came back so I am not in a writing mode. we have a girl from Virginia here to help she said that calico was 2.50 dol a yeard there we do not know any thing a bout hard times yet here

 

Bill, I beg of you to burn this as soon as you get it I am so a shamed to send it but if I wate till I go down street I will never get it done. I was sorry those pictures was not good pleas pardon this scribbling and I will do better the next

 

written on my trunk and my sitting on the flore as my room is all tore up write soon from

 

            your true friend Lib Lewis

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