Gold Rush Era Letters

A young man by the name of Edward Waters, from the State of Maine will leave here next Saturday for home ---

He is one old friend of mine and you may have heard me speak of him before now, as we were at Tucker Shaw & Co's at the same time.

He arrived here the same year that I did, in the month of August, but I think he is now obliged to borrow the means of getting home with, for he has been sick, some here, and has been unfortunate otherwise, but has finally made up his mind that he may as well go home now, as to stay here any longer, as there is no better prospect ahead for him now than there was a year ago -----

I was surprised to hear that, Dr Parker, and Capt Robinson were intending to leave Pepperell, and then form what you write I think that Mrs Sewell will join Parks at Wisconsin.

A few more such changes in P. and it will never seem like home to me again, and it must seem odd to you also. I do not think you can