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Autograph Letter Signed (“Anne”). New York, 3pp. To her husband James in San Francisco. Tattered at edges, with slight loss of text.

"...Do come home dearest, don’t let me have to urge you and come as soon as you can......There are many that went from here a year ago as good and pure as anyone, now come back poor miserable drunkards. I think this California business  has been the greatest evil that could have befallen us…"

“….I shall only write a few lines, and I think it is a great chance if they ever get to San Francisco, they may go as far as Chagres and the Savages may have the pleasure of reading them…I have been sending you letters every opportunity there has been and I have sent over twenty and…you say that you have not received but one…I am almost tempted sometimes to come and bring them myself…I have not heard from you dearest in a long time…nearly three months…can you imagine my feelings…If I can only hear that you are alive and well, I shall feel contented… I think it is so strange that you have not written…I think sometimes that you have been sick and died…I think everything that might have happened to you… I wish you would come home…I don’t care if you are poor, we have always had a living and will yet. I am sure I should rather be poor and happy, and happy I cannot be when you are away...You have not told us yet what business you are doing yet…if you don’t want every one to know just tell me. I will not tell any one, though I hope you are not afraid not ashamed to let any one know your business, but there is one thing dearest that I do not want you to touch, taste or handle, that is any kind of liquors, don’t be offended at me my husband for writing so plain, it is for your own sake that I say it as well as mine dearest. I think you are above such things…if you were only back safe again how thankful I should be…is your health good as good as it was here and can you do better than you can here, do write and tell me all and tell me when you will come home…”