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Nevada City May 12 1856

My Dear Father

It is with pleasure that
I take up my pen to adress [address] a
few lines to you to let you
know that I am well and hope those
few lines may find you all the same
I send you two hundred and twenty
five dollars ten to Mother and five to each
of my Sisters and the rest to you I have
lost the direction you sent or else I should
of sent it to New york New York I think you
can get some exchange of on the draft
if you sell it to some merchant that
is trading in Boston
I have maid [made] up my mind
to remain here untill [until] next spring as
I think I have a chance of doing well

I came down day before yesterday and
have been thirty five miles below here thay [they]
are cuting [cutting] thare [there] h hay and grain below now
and up whare [where] I stop the snow is from fifteen
to twenty feet on the ridges

I have to leave town early
tomorrow morning and thare [there] is a grate [great]
bustle whare [where] I am wrighting [writing] so you must
excuse a Short letter I will write again
the the next male [mail].