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Gold Digens near Ausburn Cali Auburn, California
March 22^nd 1850

Dear Father & Mother

I read your letter of Jan -
and I do assure you that you cannot
conceive the pleasure it gave me to hear
of your good health & prosperity, I being a
way out here in the wild forest of California
where news of any Kind is scarce, such a
a thing as talling [telling] or tail barring has no
foot hold here we all have as much as
we can do to mind our own buisiness [business]
in the real Democraticte [Democratic] stile [style] we are near
=ly all Democraticks [Democratics] in this country and will
be for a long time to come as a large por-
tion of the popalation [population] are labouring men
and a pon are Equality, but Enough of
this as I but a few minetes [minutes] to write in, and
sending a letter to the poast [post] office
as the nearest office is a bout [about] fifty miles
Distant from us but that need not
Keep my friends from writing to me if they
feel like it and if they dont [don't] they can
let it a lone [alone] and it will save me $1.50
but I had much rather have the Letter