p.

Winstead. May 12the
1879.

My dear friend.
I send herewith the
second of that series of three stories I
meant to write on the old ditty, and
have been as hindered about! Send it
back please, as soon as may - be, if you
don't want it, so I can use it elsewhere,
for I am now beginning to write with
new impulse, and desire to scratch together
all the dollars possible, for - only think!
We have bought a house! Not this old
and shackling mummery: yet we are so
far true to the record of not inhabiting
common - place resources, that we have lived,
since we were married in an Opana house
a mummery, and now are about to take
up our abode in an old manse: just as
sunny, more roomey, and much cheaper