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For a few days, cucumbers sold for 37 1/2 cts apiece
green corn, $2.50 per doz ears string beans 37 1/2 cts per
pound, & squashes 37 1/2 cts per lbs, & they are so high
now that I cannot afford to eat them.

I live alone & sometimes feel a little homesick
or sick of home I hardly know which -- I miss Sam [Samuel P. Tucker], a
good deal, for we have lived together for so long (5 months)
that it seems as though I ought to find him in
my room when I come home at night, the same as I used
to do last winter, but where he is now I do not
know as I have not heard from him since the 2nd of
May. I suppose however that he in the vicinity
of Columbia [Columbia, California], in company with the Wright Boys.

Shall probably hear from him soon as I wrote
up to them last Friday. Suppose Sam is making
money so fast that he cannot find time to write
although I think he will do so before long as there
are a number of letters for him at Turnbull & Wal-
tons, from his Eastern friends. I think there is no doubt
but what he is enjoying good health otherwise I think
he would have written before now. I suppose J. A.
has already heard from him, from his new quar-
ters as he has been gone now, nearly two months,
at any rate his friends need not borrow any trouble
about him as he was quite smart before he went
away from here & will probably enjoy better health
in the mines than he did here providing he does
not work too hard. It is now 10 Oclock [O'clock] & as I
must be up early in the morning, I will lay aside my
writing & bid you Good Night.