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Kankakee City June 9=1862 My dear Wife I have drawn on you through the Bank for thirty Eight dollars, I was obliged to have this to pay my carpenters & to pay for the window glass & having them set. The house is up shingled & the siding is all on. George Spooner has been sick so that he could not work till now. He wrote me saturday night that he would come to-day, & I went down to Cliffton yesterday & saw him. He agreed to do the rest of my work, so I came into Kankakee City to-day & settled up with my carpenters here & paid them