James Alexander Marshall April 22, 1865 Virginia City Aprile the 1865 22 Deare sister I take up my pen this morning to drop you a fiew lines in answer to your letter of March the twelft i was glad to hear from you and that you was well no doute you are aul moste hate broken for the los of our deare mother it is a harde trial to give up another but donte grieve for she is better off than we are you say that John fixed to cross the plaines but was disapointed and you did not know what he wood do if he dos come let me know it and who he is coming with so that we can find each other when he gets here I donte know exactly where I will be at the time he would get here but I expect I wil bee in the laste Chance thom Parish and Ja Plilly lefte here some time ago and wente into that county they have written that they got Claimes in nugget gulch and I expect that we will get there in a shorte time there is not much doing here yet provisions of every kind is very hig flower got up as high as one 130 per hundred potatoes from forty to sixty cents per pound rice and beens sixty there has been two flower riets here this winter the first time they was sucessful in getting what flower they wanted but the second time they only got about eight sacks which they divided am ong the people from ten to twenty pounds as fare as it wente and now there cannot be any had for neother love nor money ware aul well hopeing these fiew lines will finde you aull enjoying the same blessing give my respects to aul inquiring friends and reserve a portion to yourself James A Marshall © Copyright 2007 - All rights reserved