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Good morning: will wite a little more this morning as it is still raining. It rained all night and I guess it is going to rain all day. This is pretty hard luck for me. I wish I hadn't of sent for my tools. I would come home so if you have not sent them, don't. This is no place for a poor man to try to get a house. They don't want anyone, only people with lots of money. It looks to me

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it takes to money to live here. So if anything comes up down there that I can do, let me know. Well I guess I will have to close and get this in the mail. Will write again soon. Will go down and see what I can do about your 5 acres and see if I can do anything with them. Write soon. Love to all. G [ B G ?]

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that I can do. If I hadn't of sent for my tools, I would come home, but will try and stick it out for a little while longer.

There is going to be lots of work here after awhile in the way of building. I'm working for a contractor that has got four or five houses to build. If I had someone to help me, I would go to contracting, but would half to put up bonds and that I can't do. Well, I worked yesterday and part of today until it began to rain. Anyhow, the wind does blow. it blows worse than it does down there.

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Well, the ocean was not very bad the day I came up here, but I guess it is bad today, the way the wind blows.

I have got those keys and will try and to send them back.

Well, my dear girls, I wish you were here or rather I was there. Those letters made me homesick, but will try and stand it a little while longer. Help mama all you can and be good girls. Maybe, someday, you will be up here too. I wish you would write to the Colony people and ask them what they will do about exchange. I can't get much out of them. They want to give us something that is no good.

If I stay up here much longer, I wish you would send me some bed clothes so I can get

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Dear ones at home:

I will try and answer your most kind and loving letter I received this morning and was, [oughfuly ?], awfully glad to hear from you all. I only wished it had of been you all here instead of the letter. I tell you it is oughful, [sic], lonesome here when it comes to night. I don't believe I can stand it very long. It is such poor accomodations, [sic], and it costs so much for board and room. It costs me $2.00 a day. The best that

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