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Our business affairs remain unchanged --

Trade I think is a little duller, still we
continue to do tolerably well. We shall probably
be obliged to make some change, when Mr Noyes
leaves for home, but what arrangements we
shall make I cannot Tell with any degree of
certainty at this early day, but shall be
able no doubt to inform you, bye and bye.

I shall be sorry to have him leave, still
I suppose I shall manage to get along as well
as I did before I became acquainted with him.

He may return to California in the course
of a few months, and will, if he does return,
bring his family with him. In that case he
will then be prepared to remain here as long
as I wish to without any doubt. --

I am sorry that Capt. Blemey and family
have resolved to leave Pepperell, for from what
you have written with regard to them, from
time to time I infer that they are very fine
people, and during their absence you and Hattie
must miss their society very much --

I hope their voyage will be a successful,
and a speedy one, and that they will again
at some future day, make Pepperell their home.

I should have been pleased could I have met
Capt Blemey here in California although I
am but slightly acquainted with him.

Perps [Perhaps] we may some day become better acquainted