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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 letter 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 Sho, also learnt from one of Geos letters "brother George" that Saml unclear was here, / or expected here, in looking round to find out if he had arrived unclear I came across him as was coming out of the Harbor Masters office, where I went to see if the vesel had arrived he was expecting- was most happy to meet eachother so far from home- I went to his office a few moments and then returned to house- the evening was very cold & damp, so didnot go out again after returned-. 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 stated, with berths arranged around the sides, three or four tier high.-