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go & we all provide ourselves with flanels and India rubber goods for use when it rains. I shall get me flanel shirts & drawers to use if I want & my clothes what I get will be stout servicable goods. We do not intend to go there without making something handsome. We shall provide ourselves here with provisions for at least six months so as not to be obliged & give exorbitant prices there. Each one is cured & provided for & I am sure our work will not be as hard as what I have done. We shall have tents to sleep under on the way & there till we can erect a comfortable building. I really believe I could do this better than or as well as trash about a store and the climate is not an objection, a serious one, it is mild & the breezes from the Pacific are mild. It is said to resemble the climate of Italy, and hole in page as any where else one must not expose themselves or be imprudent. I should not live a month here or in Boston if I was careless. If one takes proper care of their health climate can not seriously affect them & I believe I shall deriev phisical benefit from this trip if I am not careless. And the whole amount of it is then is a grand chance for a fortune in a short time. People may tell stories, yes bad? stories --it is only from those who would like to keep back the crowd & get rich themselves. Why are men leaving their families & Salaries of 2 & 3 thousand dollars to go? It is a fact. I hope you will enjoy yourself & I Shall ever wish you prosperity & do not think that I am unmindful of a good sister. Charles or all [left-hand side] Everything that you can read in the papers about Gen. Taylor's inauguration & more too, I have seen & heard. I believe no one has seen? text missing- there is a hole in paper or heard more if all the movements. All the Big Boys and Little Boys everything grand & interesting. I have been an eye witness to Gen. Cass & Shields, all congress affairs & etc I have glutted my eyes & ears with & will tell more about the whole matter in my next letter.

Everything went off first rate & I looked out for myself determined to see the whole at any rate. I can not begin to tell one half of the scrapes. It far exceeded any thing I ever saw or dreamed of. Congress is still in session. Mr. Filmore in the chair, Cass in his seat. I hope all are well. I am quite well except for a slight cold. We have had a long spell of very damp weather but it is fair today. The city is black with people. Polk is gone.

Give my love to D & Emily & those little ones. I shall write to you on my route occasionally. Sam'l must not have faint turns if he can help it. I hope Chandler & Sam'l will have a good time this summer. Mary is going to college I wish? she would go out as missionary with me. Chl.