Gold Rush Era Letters

The fine mail Steamship Golden Gate has just arrived from Panama, bringing the mails and passengers about 1200 in number through from New York in the short space of 24 days and in advance of all other lines. So tomorrow I shall be happy, for I am sure to recieve letters from you if from no one else, and it always affords me a great deal of pleasure to peruse letters from home, and I hardly know what I should do if I were to miss a single mail without recieving [receiving] letters from you and some one of Mr T's family regularly have I always recieved them from you heretofore

Yesterday I recieved [received] a letter from S. P. Tucker He writes that he is well and intends to come down here on a visit in the course of a few weeks and I sincerely hope he will for I have not seen him now for almost a year. He is as well as ever and I guess is doing very well. He and Charles Wright (Daniels Brother) still live together and I think they like the mines very well. They heard from Thomas G Lawrence a few days before Sam wrote me, He was then at Auburn when he went soon after he arrived in this country, but I believe he does not intend to remain there long as he finds business rather dull. Thomas Chapin called upon Sam a few evenings before he wrote me. T. was well and sent me his kind regards. I am in hopes to see him soon

Sam did not write anything about Augustine or W. H. Shedd