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Millspoint Ky [Mill Point, Kentucky] Feb 25th D 51

Friend Watson

Your favour [favor] of the second is at
hand. I am pleased to learn that you reached home
safe and found all well. I found my friends all well
and shall I say there was joy in the Camp when I reached
home. I may say with the fact the joy of meeting pay the
pangs of absence and those only who have been to
California can realise [realize] it. I had been home only a few
days when my business called me to New Orleans. I had a
pleasant trip & had the pleasure of hearing Jenny linn
such an excitement as she created in the City has rarely
ever been seen before her tickets sold for some twenty
thousand $. I called at Newmadrid [New Madrid, Missouri] as I came up to see
my acquaintencis [acquaintances] there and had a very pleasant time indeed
John H. showed me a letter he had from you which was
before I recd [received] yours. I told him to direct you to send our
verdent [verdant] friends receipt to Millspoint [Mill Point] directed to me
as the matters in my hands now if you could have
seen his manoevres [manoeuvres] when he foun [found] that he had left
his receipt you would have been perfectly satisfyed [satisfied]
without seeing Jenny. I sayd [said] nothing for some time
until I thought his cup was full and running over
then I told him it would be all right so he left for
home perfectly satisfyed [satisfied]. I was sorry to hear of
Brinleys loss of $700.00 he returned to newmadrid [New Madrid, Missouri] a few
days after we passed to weight the return of the