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I recieved [received] by last mail beside your letter,
one from Miss Lewis, one from J. A. Tucker, one from S. B. Stone
and one from a friend of mine in Maine --

All of them were very acceptable, and I do
not see how I should get along if I was
to miss hearing from home, for months as some
of my acquaintances do. I should think Samuel
Tucker, would want to write his Mother as often
as he has an opportunity of sending a letter to
her, but perhaps she could not answer them
all, as you do mine, so he thinks there is no
need of his writing oftener than he does --

I do not hear from Sam, very often although
I always answer all of his letters very soon
after I receive them. He has not written
me now for about two months, but
I have heard from him once or twice
since he last wrote. I think he is well
and I do not doubt but what he is doing
very well. Still I know but little of his
affairs. He never writes much about his
business, so I never ask any questions with
regard to it. I do not know but what
I shall make him a visit next spring or
summer, and try my fortune at mining
again, for a few days, as it is now a
long time since I have been to the mines
and I think a trip of a few days away from
San Francisco would do me good.