Gold Rush Era Letters

attending school, assisting you &c so that I could not reasonably expect them to write me at that time, but I hope that they will write as soon as they can conveniently do so, for I should be glad to hear from them at any time

As you did not write anything about Hattie's Music I concluded she had not yet got her Piano & was not taking music lessons at present. Tell her to write me if she can by next mail & tell me all about her studies &c. I saw T. P. Tucker at San Francisco last Saturday. He was comfortably well, enough so to be about & that was all -- do not think he seems to gain much if any of late & I think he would be better off at home than here for there he would recieve [receive] good care & I think soon recover

Sometimes he will be very well for two or three days the very next perhaps, he will have a chill & be obliged to go to bed & be troubled with the headache & chills for a day or two, so that he is able to do but very little work.

For aught I know the rest of the Pepperell boys are all well. I have not heard from Henry Leighton since he went up country to find his father, I understand that his mother felt very bad about his coming to this country & tried to persuade him from doing so, but without avail.

She will no doubt be pleased to hear that he arrived here safely. Nothing has yet been heard from the Steamship Independence which I wrote you by last mail was supposed to be lost together with all on board & it was fortunate for Henry L. that he was not a passenger on this ill-fated Steamer but it is hoped that she will yet make her appearance & that all those who took passage on her are still living