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Burnt Chicago Oct 13 71

Brother Lapham

We are all
tumbled together. Sleep. Eat.
Sit. any way and always
without Swearing part of our
remaining clothing and furni-
ture heaped together in great
confusion without order, some
here at 152 Sophia St at Daven-
port Phelps balance nearly 2
miles north near Lakeshore out
of the city. Not time now to
find in which package a garment
wanted. The weather is very
favorable for the unsheltered. [illegible]
provisioned waggons [wagons] in all parts
of the out skirts of [five?] districts.

but one family - Malhon D. Ogden
now living north of Chicago main
river to N Ave (at S. end of the old Cem-
Etary) just N. where I lived 1 1/2 miles from