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put up at the Franklin House. kept by a Mr Ford from N York- after have some breakfast, started for the post office here I found letters from home, and most happy was I to receive them, the more so, as from them, learnt all were well at home unclear- this the first have heard from home, since I left St Louis Scho, also learnt from one of Geos letters "brother Georges" that Saml unclear was here,/ or expected here, in looking round to find out if he had arrived unclear I came around him as was comeing out of the Harbor Masters Office, where I went to see if the vesel had arrived unclear was expected- was most happy to meet eachother so far from home- I went to this office a few moments and then returned to house- the evening was very cold & damp, so didnot go out again after returned unclear. This like most all of the houses here,/ except some 5 or 6 that were built before the Gold discovery,/ are built by driving stakes into the ground. then tacking white cotton cloth around forming th sides, the roof is also built of the same material, common Cotton Cloth,- Our dining room however, as well as the bar room, are covered with boards- the sleeping apartments, are of Cloth, as before started, with berths arranged around the sides, three of four tier high.