Gold Rush Era Letters

him about it & I will also write him & have him send it as he did the other through H. A. Walton. I want to have you also write me how much I have had as you will find it put down in the book where I used to keep my accounts

I have seen Mr Wm Shipley [William Shepley]] two or three times this last week & he tells me that Frank Mason is out here & is clerk in a wholesale Grocery Store. He also told me where Samul Tucker [Samuel P. Tucker] was so that I wrote him day before yesterday. I think Shipley is doing pretty well here now as he has left off drinking & he looks very well.

There has been considerable excitement here for the last 4 or 5 weeks caused by the news of the Presidential Nominations also a depression of business caused by the news of the death of Henry Clay & the stores are now draped with black & there is to be a funeral procession next Tuesday in honor of his memory.

I am now living as economical as possible. I still board at Mrs Millers & get along with two meals per day for which I pay her 7$ per week. We have fitted up some bunks in our store where we sleep. We bought us a Palm Leaf Mattress which with our blankets make us a very good bed & we have lessened our expenses from 15$ to 7$ per week. We do our own washing with the exception of our shirts & we are bound to live as cheap as possible & to make & have money if we can do it. Sunday Eve.

I have just returned from church where I heard an excellent discourse by Rev Mr Hunt of the congregational church. His text was taken from Exodus 20 chap 13 ver. "Thou shall not kill" also Matthew 5 chap [chapter] & a part of the 39 ver "whosoever smites thee on the right-cheek turn to him the other also" The selection of these words was suggested by the fight-