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night he complained of feeling rather
uncomfortable again, and the next day
he was sick again so that he left the
stand and went to Capt. Galacar's to
stop awhile. He remained there without
getting much better until last Saturday,
(day before yesterday) when he left, and
started for Oregon, where he will prob-
ably remain a month or more, or rather
I expect he will be absent from here
that length of time as he will be a week
or two on the passage there and back
so for a while I shall have business
enough. Mr N. [Ephraim Noyes] has a cousin in Oregon
who owns a farm there and he thought
the exercise he should be able to take
there and the sea trip both ways, would
do him good, and I hope it may.

To tell the truth. I think that since
trade began to grow rather dull, Mr
Noyes [Ephraim Noyes], has felt rather homesick. He
has a wife and child at No. [North] Bridgewater
and I dare say his wife has written
him to come home, and if his health
is no better when he returns from Oregon
I do not know but he will go home.

He always haves [has] his mind upon his
business, and allows it to worry him more than he ought to.

[written on left margin:]
The enclosed slip "Life in California" tells the truth, so
thought I would send it to you.