Gold Rush Era Letters

to have me accompany them, and make them a visit of a week or two at their mountain home. I wish I could do so but at present my business will not allow me to be absent from it, as Mr Noyes [Ephraim Noyes] and myself are now closely confined the whole time.

Sam [Samuel P. Tucker], and Chas. Wright [Charles Wright] are both well and look hearty and rugged. I think they both like the mines very well. Sam is fat, and does not look much as he did two years ago when he was here sick with the fever and ague, and I hope he will continue to enjoy good health so long as he remains in the country.

We have had a pleasant time for an hour or two past, here in my room, talking over matters and things connected with home.

Sam, Wm Shipley [William Shipley], Chas Wright [Charles Wright], William Keep, and myself, have been together, relating to each other, all the important items of news contained in our letters which we have read from our Eastern Friends of late, --- the different changes that have taken place around our homes, since we left them &c, and we all seem to think we should like to be in Massachusetts at the present time, for awhile if not always. It pleases us much however as long as we are absent from home, to receive letters from our friends there I assure you, and we hope we shall alwas [always] receive them regularly.