Gold Rush Era Letters

14th John & William Keep are at work mining on the Feather River. H. Leighton & his father I suppose are at Auburn. John Griffin & Silas Stone are here in town as also is J. Spaulding Elliott, Henry Bowen (Jack's son) has been out here & have now gone home again & his brother Sampson has come out, so you see there are quite a number of us out here who know something about Pepperell

I was glad to hear by your letter of the 1tth April that you had got such a nice lot of wood into the shed again in good order for the coming year, & I hope you will succeed as well with all your out door work throughout the year, was also glad to hear by your last letter that you were all well (although H. had but just got well of a severe cold) & I hope you may all continue to enjoy good health

I believe I wrote in my last that I had miss Harriets letter dated April 17th & I shall try & answer it by this mail --

You wrote that you received a call from Miss Jennings & Mrs S. J. Billings --- wish they would call upon me ---

When you see them again please give them my kind regards, & tell them I was hoping to hear that they had not forgotten me. Remember me also to Nelly Z. who you will remember gave me the ring about a month before I left home, & which I have worn constantly ever since, nearly 17 months. --- You say I am dismissed which was the first I had heard of it & the letter of dismissal you spoke of has not as yet been recieved [received] but probably will be soon & I shall preserve it for you. Her maneuvers are very interesting I think, & I suppose she will soon pick up a new beau. Hope he will be as fortunate as I was.