Gold Rush Era Letters

For two years I have only been absent from San Francisco eleven days, so you can see that I am rather more steady than I used to be. I have got so now, that I have no desire to go away from my business, but feel content so long, as I have anything to attend to, and I hope I may always feel as willing to work as I have done for the past two years, for if I do, and am blessed with good health, I shall never need to want for the necessaries of life for I can always earn a good living anywhere, at any time.

Lizzie L. [Lewis] writes me that May E. Jewett is married at last to Mr. Hooper, and that after their marriage they took a trip on to N. York [New York].

She writes too that the weather had been very cold, and J. A. T. [J. A. Tucker] wrote that they had already had forty days of good sleighing in Boston with a fair prospect of having 40 days more of the same sort. Here throughout the month of February we had beautiful weather. A week ago Saturday and Sunday it was so warm that a person walking about the streets, in order to be comfortable needed thin clothes. -- Since then however, it has been somewhat cooler, consequently more pleasant

I expect however to see more rain during this month and the month of April, although today is a beautiful day, warm and pleasant --

and dinner one tea cup of Water this is very hard for Some But we Must Submit to providence untile [until] we get a shore [ashore]. The weather is very cloudy but no rain, on July the 22 in the Morning we Spoth [spotted] the Ship Peacific [Pacific] from N. York with passengers for San Francisco all was wele [well] on Board. She Said she was 43 days Out from Calio where she put in for Water on the 29th. We Spoth [spotted] the Bark Isabela [Barque Isabella] also from N. York with passengers to the same port and on the Same Morning we also Spoth [spotted] a Bremen Brig from Sinckapoore [Singapore] she was Called