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Sac City June 29 1851

Dear Uncle John

At last I have started
to write you a letter. I have promised
myself evry mail for the past two months
that you should be the next one that I
should write a letter to from California
but it is now near the first of July
and the [?] of the case is. this is the
first one I have written you since you
left us. One thing I have to say and that
is I have sent you Papers regular by evry
Steamer so that you have been Kept posted
as well as any one could of what has
been going on before the public generally.

The Steamer of the first of July will
carry the listings of the burning of San
Francisco Again. Yes again has that
beuutiful Cit. in Past been [?] in
ruins. On Sunday morning June the twenty
second about eleven A M the cry of fire
was heard and as usual it spread
like a thing that [?] all the Power of man
to stop it in its [?] career. On & On
it swept from street to street until
Ten whole squares and a [?istion] of

Pettyman of the Firm of P. T Banell was burried two weeks ago
today. Bob and myself attended the wedding of one of [?] zabsespl's
Daughters to [?] Neely Johnson on Wednesday last but I
shall be obliged
to give you for
the time givenly
but to tell
the truth I have
not written you
anything yet
but I fear I
have already
taken to much
of your good
naure by
filling this one
sheet your
Butter [?]
not turn out
good not saying
a [?]
[?] Extra
[?][?]
[?] comment
this time you
must write
me as often