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 --