Gold Rush Era Letters

Did you see Abel Parks, when he was at home? and has he changed much since I saw him? It seems that his Mother likes Pepperell better than she thought she did, as you say she has made up her mind not to sell her place, or go out west with Parks --

I did not know that Levi W. Phelps was at the Groton Junction until I recd. the Ball Card that H. sent me -- neither did I know that John Parker was in Pepperell. Someone wrote me a long time ago, that John, had gone or was going off somewhere towards Worcester, to work in a machine shop out there, and I never heard but what he went, or if he went that he had ever returned to Pepperell again.

I am sorry that Mr S. A. Jewett should meet with any accident, for I think he has already suffered, as much as he should from lameness, but I hope his fall was not a serious one

I heard from Sam Tucker [Samuel P. Tucker] last night by way of a letter that a friend of mine here in San Francisco received from Charles Wright. Sam is well and is busily engaged at mining, and probably doing very well, as I understand that most of the miners have now got a plenty of water --