[Envelope is addressed to Miss Katie Foster, Walpole, New Hampshire; on stationery from the

Law Office of G.C. Clemens, Topeka Kansas, postmarked 3 Jun, Topeka, KS]



Topeka, June 3 1878



My Dear Sister:



I just received your letter this morning.  When mother's claim is reached at Washington they will

call for evidence.  By that time I shall have it.  The department cannot be hurried.  I have done all

that is necessary to be done so far.  When I got the receipt for the claim they said that whatever

additional evidence was needed would be called for. If I cannot get Mr. Burnham's affidavit I

want Mr. & Mrs. [..]chery's[?].  It will do no harm to get it any way.  Judge Bellows will do it for

you.



I supposed some time ago that you might need some clothes, and so I asked you to let me have a

list of what you wanted.  I did this because I had just received $140 worth of dry goods without

any particular cost to me which I had and and I want to give you all the clothes that you possibly

could want.  I will say that I expected this and still expect to purchase and give to you more

clothes than you ever had at one time in your life.  Now if you will indicate what you want and

would like to have for the spring so I will get them for you.  If I can do better here I will buy [...]

and [...]items to [...] express or if you prefer [...] them East I will ive you the money so that you

can get them at Walpole, Keeny or Boston.  I thought perhaps that $100 worth including the

making would be all you would want this summer. I write you particularly because I feared there

might be something that you needed very badly I might not think of.  This[?] is the reason that I

wrote as I did, I am attorney for a bankrupt dry goods firm that are about to make a [...] with their

creditors, and that gives me some advantages for I presume they would prefer to give me my

whole compensation in dry goods to paying money.  But within a few weeks you can have all the

cloths you want and if what I have indicated is not enough I will do all I can.  



I am very busy indeed.  I have only time now to earn money without trying to collect.  I have all I

can do at [...] figures and could have more if I could do it.  I expect to make several thousand

dollars before the summer is out.  I have st[...] [...] about my offices and am attending strictly to

business.  But law business seems to be better now than it has been for several years past and I

am n[...] at a loss to know what opportunity it is but for m[...] and myself [...].  I think it is better

to earn money than to spend all your time and money trying[?] to f[...] collection. That ought to

be satisfactory to you and every one else.



I am going to llworth[?] this afternoon to attend court.



Charlie