Harris Chapin - Unk.

[Note: This letter is on the same piece of paper as a letter from Lizzie ?? to the Chapin family.]

Dear Mother Brother + sister

as L has wrote I will try to write a few lines Now Tim I have done all in my power to get you that money when I wrote I would send it I had the promis of it and works slackened and he could not let one have it and I have not made enny thing onley enough to pay our way but it will be Better this month last month I onley made 30 dollars now if you can manage to make enough to com hear on or part I will try the pay day in April 10th to send you the rest and after you get hear you will be all write now I dont want you to think that enny body is to blame onley my self I was to hasty I ought to if seen for surton be fore I wrote to you now If it will do enny good I will send you all I can if it is not only 5 Doll now Tim if you can come write and let me know you can get enny kind of work hear that you want most there is electric lits - street [illegible] Road + watter works to go in operation hear this Sommer and I think that wages will be good and I think coal diging will be better so you see that the prospect for the sommer will be good how I wish you were hear or I had the money to send you know I do write and tell me jest how tings stand so I can tell what to do if you can sell what you have got and get the money to come out we can get along for a while till you can get some more [illegible] you

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Willie has wrote to gran now and he is mad because he cant write more