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San Francisco April 30th 1855

My Dear Mother,

I was in hope that
I should receive your letter of the 1st inst.
before now, so that I could answer it by
this mail but the mail steamer has not
yet arrived from Panama and the outward
bound one leaves here tomorrow morning,
still I hope I shall receive letters from
my eastern friends, this evening or in the
morning, as the steamer has now been
due here two or three days, and is now
hourly expected ----

I am well, and continue to enjoy
good health constantly. Mr Noyes [Ephraim Noyes] health
is improving and he seems to take the
same interest in our business again
that he used to take last summer.
Consequently everything goes along nice
and we are doing very well, as our
business is much better now than it was
two months ago.

One of the Schooners that I own an
interest in arrived this morning from
Santa Cruz. She does not pay much at the
present time