Gold Rush Era Letters

whose deaths you mentioned in your last letter.

It really seems as though it was to be the lot of Capt Hutchinson and wife, to be called upon to part with all their children.

One by One is called away from this world, until now there are but few remaining, and I think that fatal disease consumption has already marked some of the surviving ones for its victims ---

My health is good, -- as good as it ever was. Mr Noyes [Ephraim Noyes] is quite well, excepting a slight cold. And he is as well contented, as it is possible for him to be, while away from home and family. His wife wrote him by last mail, that she was so lonesome at Bridgewater, away from her own relatives that she had concluded to give up housekeeping sell off her furniture, and take the children and move to Cambridge and live there until Mr N. returns home. He seems pleased with the idea of her doing so, as he says she has relations there and in Boston, so she will enjoy herself better, besides having less work to do, than she would if she should remain at North Bridgewater -----

I should not wonder if Mr N. went home next Spring or early in the Summer, for he seems to be anxious to see his youngest Son, which was born since he left home -----