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St Louis April 20th 1850

Dear Sister I take this oppurtunity [opportunity] to write to you
as it will be the last for some time. I arrived here this
morning at 2 O clock [O'clock] and shall leave at 5 O clock [O'clock] for the
City of St. Joseph five hundred miles from here on the
Misouri [Missouri] river from there I shall probably go to the
Lake Superior Copper mines in Minesota [Minnesota] or to the
Mormon Settlement on Salt lake. I have enjoyed first-
rate health since I left home. I arrived in Buffalo the
next morning at 6 O clock [O'clock] I took the Lake Steamer Niagara
and arrived in Chicago on last monday [Monday] at 10 O clock [O'clock]
we encountered very severe Storms on the lakes and in the
midst of the most severe part of it our boat took fire
and was put out after a great deal of labour [labor] and to no little
damage to the boat this made the third time our boat was
on fire. our first Stopping place was detroit [Detroit] on the detroit [detroit]
river we staid [stayed] here all night and I had a first rate Chance to see
the place which I like very much and I would have staid [stayed] there if
I Could have sold my ticket which I offered to sell for one half it
cost me but Could get no purchaser so I Concluded to Come to
Chicago myself. business was dull at Chicago and I Come on to
this place. I make a mistake Cleaveland Ohio [Cleveland] was our first landing
which we made on the morning of the 10th and detroit [Detroit] on the same
evening on the next morning went down detroit [Detroit] river into lake
St. Clair from there down the river St Clair to lake Huron
thenee [then] down Macinac [Mackinac] Straits to Mackinaw where we landed