| Show judy ieans letter may me dear noff yC bint yo a letter since the last timo I 1 wrote to ye because moved from our former place oming and I 1 aident know when a reach yoi but I 1 now me pin to inform yo of the death 0 yer un P cle killpatrick who died very suddenly fasth biake after a lingering sickness of 6 wakes illness ahe poo man was in violent convulsions the howl time in his illness laying perfectly quiet and speechless in talking incoherently and crying for wather what hia death was occasioned be I 1 dont know but I 1 hear it was illness he was biyer well tin days at a time during bis last confinement but be that as it may as soon as he breathed his last the doctors gave up all hopes of hia recovery I 1 had no opportunity iv informing ye iv his death sooner incept I 1 wrote to ye by the last post which wint 2 days before his death and thin have postage to pay I 1 gayent be after telling ye anything of bia age for ye well know that in may he would have been aa years lacking 6 months and had he lived to that time ho would have been 6 months dead his property is very considerable and develops on his next in lan who is dead some time so that my dear larry ye will git two thirds of the whole and ye knose that he had a fine estate which he sold to pay hos debts and the remainder he lost on a hos race but it was the opinion if all the ladies that he would have win the race the horse ho ran against bin to fast for him bad luck to the now my dear larry ye not having any relation in the whole world incept myself and 2 cousins who were killed in the last war but I 1 cant awol on this ful subject longer I 1 will sale this lether with black sailing wax and put on your uncles coat of arms so I 1 beg of ye not to break the sale when you open the lether until 3 ye it bo that time ye will be bether prepared for the mournful task your old swa tehart judy binds her lovo to ye unbeknown est to me the bearer arrives in Matt ax him for this lether and if ho dont know which won it is tell him it is the won that of yer uncles death and baled with black your effect ionato aunt in dape distress JUDY P S dont write to me until ye this |
