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When our wagons return again from the city, (they start down
tomorrow) we will have provisions to last us untill [until] May next
& Dearest that will I fear be the only chance I shall have of
getting any news from you as they say it is almost impossible to travel
in this country in winter but I shall have chances of sending letter
to you persons will be going down the river in small boats but
can not [cannot] come up it. by looking on the map you will find Mount
Tsashtl [Mount Shasta] we are forty miles south of that. I forgot to mention
to you that Odenheimer & Jake Uhler Sloped the night
before we left Lassens [Lassen], you recollect that Weber paid the money
for their outfit. Nobody was sorry that they went but Weber as Nasg
were no account in the world. We got some papers The Tribune of
the 28 June from which I see the Cholera is very bad in some parts of the
country in St Louis particularly. Eastman received a letter from his
brother dated 24 June & you had not been [one word covered by stain] by the Epedemic [Epidemic]
then & I hope & believe you will not to any great extent, Dearest wife
I hope you are well & happy. If God has blessed [one word covered by stain] should by this time
have another sweet little angel in your arms. Oh how I wish I was with
you. Oh my love how often during the last week when fever woud [would] be
consuming me & my head almost bursting with pain have I wished for
the pressure of your sweet lips to cool the fire that was scorching mine & of
your dear sweet breath to Ease my aching brain but cheer up love
there is a good time coming. I will make up for this when I get
home, I sometimes have forebodings that you give way
to your lonesomeness so as to injure your Health. I hope &
pray that this is not true. Cheer up love the time for which
I left you has already one third past & I will come home then
gold or no gold sure for the all the gold in California
could not keep me from my dear wife & children after I had