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Oh may thy love our spirits fill,
And brighten all our pathway still,
And be thou with us to the End
A Father, Saviour Lover, Friend ? –!

(The Text was from Romans. 14-12 Verse).

This was the last meeting ever held by the
Edward Everett Company, of 12, on Saturday Evening –
Aug 4^th 1849, the Company held a meeting
at Camp on the banks of the Mokelumne
river [River] by a Vote of 87 to 2 – dissolved, and
nearly all left. Monday Morning Aug 6^th /49 [1849]
for Sacramento. I think this was the only experience
Dr. Benton had in mining, or in a Miners
Camp.

Sincerely Yours,
A. J. Bayley

Pilot Hill Cal. [California] Jany [January] 31^st 1893.

[written vertically in left margin]
Boston and California
Mining & Trading Co.