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San Francisco Cal. Feb. 10th 1853.

My Dear Mother,

Your kind letter date Jan 1st
was received last Sunday, & I was very happy to hear
that your were all enjoying good health. I was also
please to hear that the present year had opened with
so much brighter prospects for your future happiness
than did last year. That you "felt truly wretched in
mind" one year ago the 1st of Jan. I can judge from the
letter you wrote me about that time. But I am glad,
very glad, to know that you are much happier than
you were last year, owing to the change in my con-
duct & you may rest assured that I shall continue
to conduct myself as I ought to do. For your
sake. For the sake of brother & Sister, friends & relatives
& last but not least for my own sake. I have re-
solved to do as I ought in every respect so far as I
can. I find it just as easy, yes, easier to do right
than to do wrong & conduct myself as I did a year
or more previous to my coming to California -- ---

All such stories as you say, are circulated about home
Vis "That I am married to Lizza & paying her board at
H. Blakes, you will not believe or take any notice of
of course after what I have written you & that too
sincerely. To the best of my recollection I never
paid for but one meal of victuals which she eat in
my life & that is one too many. I guess you have not