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Sanfrancisco March 13th 1851 Dear Wife & Children I sit down
this night at Sanfrancisco this nightto write a few lines
to let you Know that myself & Peter I Broun is Well hoping
these few lines may find you all the same I was In hopes
this mail to have received Some letters from some of you
But Received none I Inclose in this a Setificate from
Adams Express for two thousand dollars in gold dust
and also I sent in my letter of the 1st of Mach a Sertificate
for one thousand by adams Express line Both to be delivered
to the goshen Bank and when you receive them tell Mr
Murry to get it Put in coin and make Out of it as much
as he can and and put it to my credit and I Expect to send
some the nxt mail and I Expect if we live which I have
Written in my other letter that myself and Peter Will be home
as soon as July if we can get our buisness arranged as some
as May or June things looks now as though we would be
through as soonas that we have sold our store house that
we ocupy and Expect to wind up our buisness in the course
of a few weeks things looks quite favorable at present
as if we had made some thing they are this week just unloading
the third lot of Butter at Sacremento Citty so three
lots are safelyu landed at Sacremento and if it all turns
out as well as that I have seen it Will make I think myself
that it is the Best lot of Butter take it all together that
has Ever arrived in calaforna I have seen a great deal &
We have Got and sold a good deal of Butter within three
months and this Brings from 15c to 25 cents a pound more than
any I could buy [?] is verry low here almost all Kinds of
goods loose money for them that send them here from home
Almost all articles like Boots and Shoes & pork pails flown
[?] is as cheap here as at home so the loss on some is