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So I do not want any sent next year without directions
from me next season But I am Inhopes [in hopes] the Butter of this season
may come In good order tell Nicholas N to send me the Bill
of all the cost & his seveses [services] and all so that I can send the mony [money]
what may Be due &c [etc.] if any at the last mail I writ [wrote] home to Hannah
My Wife & to Albert & Anna & Intend to write Evry [every] mail home
which is Evry [every] two weeks so you will be likly [likely] to hear from us
often tell My Sisters & Brothenlaws [Brother-in-laws] to write to me to me Evry [every]
opportunity for I do like to hear from you all tell Capten [Captain]
Row to write to me and send me a news paper [newspaper] and I would
have written to him as I promised But Could not see what
to write to benefit him But tell him what I say smart
Buisness [business] men some times can do out here But Remember
they can do the same at home some times But I Know Busisness [business]
men here that makes more I think in one month than
they could at home in the same buisness [business] for one year
We have sent home by a man by the name of Cester an acquaintance
of Peter from patterson [Patterson] $30 In specemens [specimens] to Delea & $30 My Wife
Hannah & Brst [breast] pin for Amos Munsen & a specemen [specimen] for a Brest [breast] pin for
Catharine which he promised to take to them on his arrivel [arrival] at Paterson
You most likely hear from us But it is hard to Know any boddy [anybody]
here or find your acquantance [acquaintance] one of the Amety Boys has gone
home the Edsell Bys [boys] called at our store at Sacremento Sacramento & I was
was sorry I did not see them Wm. William Edsell Edsells [Edsell's] son from hamburg [Hamburg]
I saw some time a go [ago] they say he is doing well But the goshen [Goshen]
Edsell Boys I had not seen nor heared [heard] from till they called & Peter
told me they was there from what I heared [heard] they are doing well
I saw David Linn from what he told me he has not made
much I send an order for you to git [get] them old Mortgages of
Henry Prises & Johnathan hills [Hill's] Johnathan Hill off Record & see that Eve does
What is Wright [right] I am Claring [clearing] up all of these old mortgages
and taking them off [missing paper here] Write
No more But [missing paper here] Affectionate Son & Brother

November 1^st, 1850

John N Ryerson