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mony [money] very fast. Now I should like to
know how they got their information for they
appear to have found out more about my
business, than I know of it. I gave you a
pretty correct idea of what I was doing
two or three months ago, but if I remember
rightly I then told you that I was then
but little better off than I was when I
first landed in California and I can
say the same now, for a part of the
time within the past three months I
have done but little aside from the Book
and Cutlery business which continues to pay
us about the same as when I wrote you
about it, soon after I went into business
with Mr Noyes. So you will tell the Truth
if you tell them I am but little better off
as far as mony [money] is concerned than I was
when I left home for I am not. My
prospects are very fair for doing very well
for a year to come, still I may be worse
off instead of better for I have got $3000
invested in risky property. (I mean vessels,)
so risky at any rate that it is impossible
to get them insured without paying about
as much every year as the vessels are
worth. For my part I cannot imagine
where Valentine got his news to write home
that I owned a share in four vessels and

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James Bolles did not go to the Sandwich Islands in that Bark as I
wrote you that he intended to do. He is now in the United States
Revenue Cutter Jefferson Davis. He is well as are the rest of the Pepperellites