Gold Rush Era Collections

[upper right] Milltown St. Stephens Oct [October] the 26 of 1851

My Dear Farther

I now seat my self [myself] to write a few lines to you to let you know that I am well and hope thay [they] may find you the same I have been expecting to hear from you for some time but I find thare [there] is no letters for me I saw Mr Griffin the if other day and he told me that he had no tidings from home for some time I am stil [still] at worck [work] in mehanais [mechanics] but I intend to go in the woods as soon as I can get a good chance prapes [perhaps] in a week and prapes [perhaps] in a month but I will write to yu [you] again before I go when you write Direct them Miltown ST Stphens NB and I will get some one to send them to me I have got my money from the man that I was worcking [working] for after some little truble [trouble] and I will in close [enclose] $50 dollars to you I in tend [intend] to get a chance if I can to got in for the rout that is to worck [work] on the logs until thay [they] run in the boom that will probably be about the last of June and then I think I shl [shall] go home & if all is right. I have wrote to Georg Logan and I dont [don't] know but I shall go round that way and see the folks as I go home times are quite dull here this fall owing to the scarsity [scarcity] of watter [water] but I think time will be prety [pretty] good this winter if you have not wrote I hope you will soon for I should like to hear from you very mutch [much]. I saw Joseph Chipman last summer and had a long talk with him about matters of