cams_rjboylan_b012_f003_004_2

[Written upside down] Elder Kin would do well working at his trade in Cal. [California] sharpening A pick $4.50
shoeing horn $16- crobar [crowbar] from $8 to 16 blacksmiths with tools plenty at the city for cheap
blacksmiths in the mines very scarce they are getting rich -- doing better than [mi?]

hapiness [happiness] than that of enjoying the society of my
friends and to see them united and hapy [happy] -- Keen and
severe was the pang of leaving my darling home but
A appeared as the necessity required that I should go
it was solely for the sake of my home my darling
Wife and Children one and all that I consented to
make the sacrafice [sacrifice] -- altho [although] my success has been
quite limited but the satisfaction I received in reading
one sentence in your letters that no one had any claim
against R J Boylan, except the demand of James and Mary.
I am -- nothing would have given me more pain than not to
have been able to meet that demand. I fell anxious
have James have something to make A fair -- early start
in life and as well for himself -- I feel to live for my family
almost, exclusive when I look round on many who have
come to, Cal [California] and underwent the various hardships and pri-
vations and many that came a year before me and now
have not near as much as I. I am not willing to give names
but there are many of my acquaintance from Will Co. [County]
that are not able to get home and have enjoyed good health.
I feel myself quite fortunate -- and I presume far short of the
golden visions of many that are, anxious to come. Since I
wrote last month I have done but little we sold our ground
that we bought after buying our first claim and made a good
hit, by selling -- I have now in my belt about Eight hundred
dollars I heartily wish it was home but I will take good care of what
I have got and try to get all I can by fall. You have received
all that I have remitted except the Specimens, that I sent by
Links then you have got before this time