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of health & am getting along very well considering
that I am in California. Since I wrote you last
I have again changed my Lodging room having
been obliged to move into a chamber in the same buil-
ding where I was before & I think I shall remain
where I now am the remainder of the winter.

Sam Tucker [Samuel P. Tucker] rooms with me & we try to en-
joy ourselves as well as we can but after all we
often wish we were once more at home among
parents relatives & friends but as we have brought
ourselves into our present situation we can blame no
one & must try & make the best of it. The greatest
pleasure we can enjoy in this country is afforded
by the reciept [receipt] of letters from our kind friends at
at home, & I hope we may continue to recieve [receive]
them as regularly as heretofore & that we shall hear
good & favorable tidings from you all. Mr Tucker
wrote me a very acceptable letter of 8 Pages wherein
he wrote that his health this fall has been rather
poor so much so that he thought he should give
up his store. I was very sorry to hear it & I hope he
will speedily regain his health. The news which most
surprised me was the marriage of John V. Ames &
Jane Wolcott. It is the last match I should have
thought of but if they are suited I suppose it is
all right, but I think John V will find her a little
different from his first wife. I was sorry to hear
of the death of Martha Ann Sawtelles little boy
whose death she must have felt severely