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Emmigration [emigration] and their [there] is more sickness behind than ahead so that
I can form no Idea of the numbers of deaths you will probably read
conjectured accounts on the newspapers from persons letter able to
accertain [ascertain] than I am. we have buried five men and one woman out of
our company one of the men has died this morning named Reid from
Illinois but I believe there is no more sickness in the company
I should like to tell you a great Deal more but time and
space will not permit. I must close hopeing [hoping] that this will find you
all in as good health as it leaves me there has been so much
cholera here that I feel anxious to hear from home hopeing [hoping] to find
you all alive and well. I shall not be able to Mail this short
of Fort Larimie [Laramie] when if I can I will write a little more my
love and respests [respects] to Father Mother Ann Henery and all my
sisters also to all kind friends hopeing [hoping] the Single ones may have short
Courtships speedy Marriages and the Married long and happy lives
I must close now by saying I wish would write to me at Sacremento Sacramento
City so that I can get your letter by the first of September I do it.
What I shall go at when I get there so I may not stay in the city more
than a day or two and if the letter is not there at that time I shall
be much disappointed and make up my mind that this letter is
miscarried. I shall write from there immediately uppon [upon] my arrival.
Give me full account of the things going on in Albany for I have
not heard from there since I left and I am certainly very anxious
to hear from home

From Your Brother John Cornock
Nebraska June 12th
1850

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