Gold Rush Era Letters

to Esq J. I shall send home for no more mony [money] after he pays the $500. to Mr Turnbull, unless I should have to send for some to get home with.

All is if I lose what I have recieved [received] from home I shall only have to remain here a few years longer & work a little harder than I should otherwise do in order to make it up again & if occasion requires I can try my luck at the mines

I think as you say that you had a variety of marrying during the second week of January & they must have had terrible times for a while at Recest. I should have thought that Frank Joy would have gone in for a chanc [chance] as perhaps he could have got the knot tied cheap as the priests had just nicely got their hand in & probably they would have married him at wholesale price but I guess he will give it up after all. It seems that at last you you have got a plenty of snow & in piles too & I suppose before now you have had still more accompanied by a good share of cold weather & winds, while we here have been having beautiful weather with the exception of yesterday & day before, when it rained about half of the time -- today however it has been clear, warm & pleasant throughout the day like your weather in May. After all it does not seem half so pleasant to walk about here as one can see no trees grass, or flowers, as they can in the New England States during the months of Spring & Summer

I suppose Harriet is as anxious to attend school as ever notwithstanding the cold & snow, but she must be careful of her health, although she haves [has] the best of