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June 7th 1849 Dear Wife A, Mail Carrier from the Salt Lake has just stopt at our camp, and offers to wait half an hour for one dollar and fifty centers, and six of us, have agreeed? to by it. he will take this as far as St Josephs unclear, Our folks are all well Jackman is well, we are within 170 miles of Fort Laramic? is is a Beautiful day and we have stopt to clean up our over loading unclear we? we are a few rods from the Bright fork if Grand River on the south side and 50 miles above the junction with the south fork we have got along verry well stand the hardships of the trip about as well as I expected to. the Wither has been verry cold especially of nights my time is nearly up but I will keep on til he sayes stop I hope you and the children will not forget the Relationship we bear? each other, and that you may prosper - til I return is my Prayer I suppose we are behind about BUOU? Teams, how we will get through the mountains we cant guess, and how soon I will have an other opertunity of writing I dont know but i will improve the first. our Team looks well the Gnuts? have troubled us serve? they but Jesse so his Face and head was much Sicoler? and he could not do any thing for a day or two but nearly well