CAMS_JRyerson_B10_F001_005_001

Panama June 15^th 1850

Dear Wife and Children I take this opportunity
to Write you a few lines to let you know
that I am well hoping these few lines may find
you all the same you must not complain that
we are so far apart and thenk [think] all of you that
I have the worst End of it Intended for your
good and the children so do as well as you
can and try humor aims to his good and your
good and it will End good both attend to buisness
as snug and as honerable [honorable] as you can and all
will be well I have been very much disappointed
in getting on to calafornia California the boat that we have
our tickets on arrived here a few days ago and it
is supposed she would not leave for two or three
weeks to come so we Changed our tickets for tickets
on the Panama one of aspenwalls [Aspinwall] Boats which I Expect
will start the 17^th June monday [Monday] I hope you have
Received my letter I wrote since I have been here
I received N. N. Ryersons of 27^th April I sinc [since] I have been here
soon after I Wrote I was sick four or five Days with
a small of the disentary [dysentery] which is verry [very] comen [commen]
here and Proves fatal with some But I have
been well since for the last three or four weeks
I have made verry [very] near anough [enough] to clear Expences [expenses] Since
I have been here & Peter Brown has made som [some] thing
more By my being sick it Put me back for two weeks
that I did not feel like moving much in this Climate