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The fine mail Steamship Golden Gate has just
arrived from Panama, bringing the mails and passengers
about 1200 in number through from New York in the
short space of 24 days and in advance of all
other lines. So tomorrow I shall be happy, for I am
sure to recieve letters from you if from no one
else, and it always affords me a great deal of
pleasure to peruse letters from home, and I hardly
know what I should do if I were to miss a single
mail without recieving [receiving] letters from you and some
one of Mr T's family regularly have I always
recieved them from you heretofore

Yesterday I recieved [received] a letter from S. P. Tucker
He writes that he is well and intends to come down
here on a visit in the course of a few weeks and
I sincerely hope he will for I have not seen him
now for almost a year. He is as well as ever
and I guess is doing very well. He and Charles
Wright (Daniels Brother) still live together and I think
they like the mines very well. They heard from Thomas
G Lawrence a few days before Sam wrote me, He
was then at Auburn when he went soon after he
arrived in this country, but I believe he does not intend
to remain there long as he finds business rather
dull. Thomas Chapin called upon Sam a few
evenings before he wrote me. T. was well and sent
me his kind regards. I am in hopes to see him soon

Sam did not write anything about Augustine or W. H. Shedd