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of hearing from me so often. so that you will be obliged
to send me word to stop writing so that I shall have a
chance to hear from you once more at least .. But I
have made up my mind that the reason why I have not
heard from you along regularly since I arrived here is
this .. that you probably thought you would write once & then
wait until you heard from me as until you did hear you
would not know whether I arrived here in safety or not
& if I was at the bottom of the ocean then would be no need
of writing me & directly to San Francisco. but as I arrived here
safely & wrote you by the mail of the 15th July which you ought
to recieve [receive] in twenty eight days after, & if you then answered
immediately. I can reasonably expect a letter from you by
the middle of September & not much before then & until that
time I suppose I must content myself by writing you which
affords me great pleasure & calls to mind pleasing associations
connected with that kind home which I have left far behind
me together with my best friends who I hope to meet again soon
& to find them enjoying health & happiness.

In my last letter I wrote you that I commenced
business & that the only drawback so far was the want of capital
& I also wrote you that I had written to Esq Jewett to send
me out 800 or 900 dollars & I wish you would be so nice as to
intercede with him in my behalf & I think you will be
willing to try & help me when you know that I am working hard to help
myself which I am now doing & if a person by economy & hard
work can lay up money I think I shall do so. Since we com-
menced I have not spent a single cent except for board & washing
& I live on 2 meals per day & I think that it is as economical as