George B. Campbell

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].

please to send my love and best respects to Aunt Mary

Your affectionate Son George Campbell

When the Ways [waves] departing shores on the west thare [their] footprints bene [been] and Her ? like ? tear drops steels [steals] a down the cheek of her

I think of thee In the solemn hour of Midnight When the world tis calm and stile [still] Thoughts of others years come oer [over] me and my dont [don't] old memories fole [flow]

I think When the world grows cold and stormy filling all my heart with grief and I feel there again to love One alone to give My heart ?

I think of thee I think of thee in the morning when it ? start And the morn lones of south heard on the bough hole seas

I think of thee

Calais Maine Milltown Sept the 24th of 1850

Dear Father

I receved [received] your letter of the 19 of July on the 1 Day of Aug. I was glad to hear from you you must excuse me for not writeing [writing] before but owing to sircumstances [circumstances] I could not. I am sory [sorry] that the hay crops are likely to be light but I shall try to assist you as mutch [much] as possable acording [according] to your requist [request] you will tharefore [therefore] please to recive [receive] 20$ I am still to worck [work] at farming and the crops look very well the y hay and grase [grass] has been a firstrate crop this summer but thare [there] has been considerable failings in the potatoes I would wish you to show this to Mr G. F. M. as he requested me to write something of the place lumbering is the cheif [chief] buisness of the town and vicinity of Calais thare [there] is not mutch [much] farming caried [carried] on as the soil is not sutable [suitable] for that purpse [purpose] in the moste [most] of the place but thare [there] is some hansom [handsome] farms lumbering is caried [carried] on in shape I tell you thare [there] is about 300 mills with in 7 miles on the river and the most of them contain 24 saws and you must know it takes some men to run them as thay [they] go both Day and Night thay [they] git [get] this lumber from 50 to 100 miles up the rive [river] Drive it down thay [they] have built a raleroad [railroad] from salt watter [water] up to barron this summer for of the purpose of fetching their lumber to market witch [which] will make a grate [great] stir among the lumbermen and thay [they] are laying it out throughout Bangore [Bangor] and thay [they] will begin to work on it in the spring.

And it is thought it will make times first rate here next sumer [summer] wages are purty [pretty] good now and men card thare [there] is men here now from the penobscot giving from 15 to 20$ per month for common men and 26 for extra the man that I work for has three 4 ox teams and three 3 horse teams so he will want about 16 men I lay out to go in for him as soon as as my time is out on the farm but you shall hear from me again before I go and if I like it I shall stop all winter and com [come] dow [down] on the logs in the Spring witch [which] will be about the first of July wages are from 1 to w 2$ per Day on the Drive and your start as soon as the streams open I wist [wish] you would inquire how mutch [much] the postage of a half a dozen pair of socks and mits com [come] to and if it would pay to send them for they are as dear 50 or 62 1/2 a pare [pair] here if can send them I shall be able to send you so mutch [much] the more w when my time is up I shall send you the rest of my wages to gather [together] with at bill of my summers dealings when you write please to direct your letter St Stephens milltown No B witch [which] is but a few steps acrost [across] the river and will reduce postage I blive [believe] I have nothing more to write this time only that I have had good health and enjoyed myself well this summer but I shall wind up sending my love to all my frends [friends] and relation but particulary [particularly] to my mother and sisters and also to you

you will remember me to be your Son

George Campbell

I should be pleased to hear from you as soon as possible

thare [there] is 9 I and 4 D Due Ephefram Terry on hay

[upper right] Milltown St. Stephens Oct [October] the 26 of 1851

My Dear Farther

I now seat my self [myself] to write a few lines to you to let you know that I am well and hope thay [they] may find you the same I have been expecting to hear from you for some time but I find thare [there] is no letters for me I saw Mr Griffin the if other day and he told me that he had no tidings from home for some time I am stil [still] at worck [work] in mehanais but I intend to go in the woods as soon as I can get a good chance prapes [perhaps] in a week and prapes [perhaps] in a month but I will write to yu [you] again before I go when you write Direct them Miltown ST Stphens NB and I will get some one to send them to me I have got my money from the man that I was worcking [working] for after some little truble [trouble] and I will in close [enclose] $50 dollars to you I in tend [intend] to get a chance if I can to got in for the rout that is to worck [work] on the logs until thay [they] run in the boom that will probably be about the last of June and then I think I shl [shall] go home & if all is right. I have wrote to Georg Logan and I dont [don't] know but I shall go round that way and see the folks as I go home times are quite dull here this fall owing to the scarsity of watter [water] but I think time will be prety [pretty] good this winter if you have not wrote I hope you will soon for I should like to hear from you very mutch [much]. I saw Joseph Chipman last summer and had a long talk with him about matters of