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Dear Father & Mother & Brother Peter N. Ryerson I set down
this day to write you a few lines to Inform you that Myself &
Peter has good health hoping these few lines find you and
Peter N. & Lorenda and all the children in good health at
this steamer I do Expcet you will hear great tales of Calafornia
and on the Rout It is true here is some bad fellows as
well as there is in new york But as a genrel thing here
men that stays out of bad company and minds his own
buisness dont See any more difuleaty than at home so I
Judge from what I have seen here is some cholera Just
now and also at sanfrancisco But I am In hopes it wont last
long time will tell But me and Peter I am In hopes may
Esscape the pestelence & it is all along the cost from panama
to here So we may be as safe here as anywhere else me
and Peter is In Buisness at sacremento which you have
heared before this time and I think if we find and have
our heath we will do well we are doing quite well just
now and time will tell further I Received your letter
dated Oct 5 1850 & Also the Bill of Laden Dated August
24th 1850 for thirty Six tierses of Butter & a cetifeate for the
lot in June which makes three Bills of Laden & two sertifacates
up to this time which I Judge is all that has
been sent up to this time I sent some time a go 30 ounces
of gold dust to Nicholas N. & directreed In a bag to the goshen
Bank which I am Inhopes Nicholas has Received none of
the Butter has arrived yet But I begin to look for it now
for it is almost time I am In hopes that Nicholas will
Send all the Butter. I was Sorry when you wrote to me that
you did not write how you and peter was a getting along
In new work and how Nicholas & Peter & the rest is getting