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Mr Noyes [Ephraim Noyes] sends his kind regards to you --
Mr. Wm. Shipley [William Shipley] is well as usual and wishes to
be remembered to you. I have not heard
from Sam Tucker [Samuel P. Tucker] since I last wrote you,
or from John Griffin either who I suppose is at
work near where Sam is. I promise they are
all well, or else I should probably hear from
them. I have not heard from Thos G. Lawrence [Thomas G. Lawrence]
or Mr Leighton or Henry Leighton for a long time
in fact nothing definite since they first arrived
here in San Francisco. I have never seen, or
heard from Nathan Baker, or Charles Wheeler
and should never known they were here if
you or Mr Tucker had not written me that
they had left home with the intention of coming
out here, and in fact I do not know as they
are in the country at the present time ---

Give my love to Charles & Harriet -- to Miss
Lewis and others of my friends.

Thursday Eve June 28th. Am quite well this evening and
have just done up three papers to send to Charles. -- Think
I shall send Harriet one also, "A Pictorial Wide West"

Since I commenced writing my letter, I have
been called upon to attend the funeral of a friend --
Mr William F. Green of Townsend Harbor Mass --

He died very suddenly, -- was taken with an
attack of Painters Cholic [Painter's Colic], last Sunday Evening (until
which time he was smart and well) and died last
Tuesday morning at one o'clock, and was buried
Tuesday afternoon. He leaves a brother in this country
who was at Marysville, and has not arrived from there yet.

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Friday Eve June 29th Am well this evening and must finish my letter and
deposit it in the Post Office tonight as the mail Steamer leaves early tomorrow

The mail from New York 5th inst. has not yet arrived, so of course I have not yet
received your Miniature, but I expect to though, in a day or two
H.A.P. [Henry A. Parker]