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room & has given us a nice one. We have got it car-
peted, two chairs and a table in it &c, so in
this respect I am now much better situated
than ever before since my arrival in California.

As for clothes, I am tolerably well off. The pair
of red flannel under-shirts which you made me
before I left home I have just thrown aside
having worn them constantly ever since I left
N. Y. & of the five white shirts which I brought
with me, four of them are yet in wearing order
although they begin to get tender, so thanks to you,
kind Mother I have as yet had to buy neither, shirts,
stockings, nor handkerchiefs, nor shall not be
obliged to for some time to come.

I have just eaten the last of my "Tomato Figs"
which you sent me by Mr Leighton & I regret
that I cannot get more of them, for they were
the nicest treat I have had in California
& if you will send me a lot next fall, by Express
I will give you a dollar a pound, for them --

The mail Steamer "Columbia" has just arrived
from Panama with the mails which left New York
Feb 6th. She brings the news of the accident which
happened to the Steamer "Georgia" on the Atlantic side
which accounts for the delay of the mails --

I am now going to the Post Office where I
expect to find letters from you & perhaps from Chas.