Gold Rush Era Letters

I recieved [received] by last mail beside your letter, one from Miss Lewis, one from J. A. Tucker, one from S. B. Stone and one from a friend of mine in Maine --

All of them were very acceptable, and I do not see how I should get along if I was to miss hearing from home, for months as some of my acquaintances do. I should think Samuel Tucker, would want to write his Mother as often as he has an opportunity of sending a letter to her, but perhaps she could not answer them all, as you do mine, so he thinks there is no need of his writing oftener than he does --

I do not hear from Sam, very often although I always answer all of his letters very soon after I receive them. He has not written me now for about two months, but I have heard from him once or twice since he last wrote. I think he is well and I do not doubt but what he is doing very well. Still I know but little of his affairs. He never writes much about his business, so I never ask any questions with regard to it. I do not know but what I shall make him a visit next spring or summer, and try my fortune at mining again, for a few days, as it is now a long time since I have been to the mines and I think a trip of a few days away from San Francisco would do me good.