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If any of my friends contemplate on coming to
Cal^ia tell them to consider well before they start
I can give no advice My view I have written more
fully in my former letters.

Excuse me for I have no
(page torn away) say over I will write you write you I think by the next
Steamer, again

Please tender my request to all friends who
may choose to enquire of me George & Lucy and
Aunt Esther^s family generally to your wife my kind
respects and solicit her to tender my best, wishes for
success an greatfull [greatful] respects to Miss Harriet A Copeland
and you will oblige one who is

Yours with much esteem

H M Hayward

San Francisco Dec^r 31^st 1849