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Dr. John Townsend
San Francisco
California
movement coming from him may and probably will
succeed and that case this will be a good
communication between this and San Francisco
In the mean times of the companies or the government
- carry a Telegraph wire across you and I might
- considerable conversations with each other on
the same day
I remain your affectionate Brother
Thomas Townsend
Wheeling Va 25th of 2 Mo. 1848
Dear Brother
I have been lately reminded
of writing by being called on to give letters of introduction to you
by two gentlement of this place who have the "yellow fever"
so badly that it will take them off to California.
The rage for the Gold Region is great all over the United
States and even in Europe. Companies are made up or are
in the act of being made up in almost every town
in this country and even in London and other parts of Europe
according to the accounts we read. One company will
start from this city about the 20th of next month and one
atarted eight or ten days ago from St Clairsville ten metrs west
of this. This last went to New York and calculate to sail round
Cape Horn - I would be very glad to receive a letter
from you that I might learn the truth and form some
estimate of how much of any the plentiness of Gold on the
small tributaries of the Sacramento may approach the ap-
parently exaggerated stories which have been published
When I wrote to you last I informed you that
Amos's daughter Mary had come up from Indiana
and was then living with me. She is still living with me
Ahe was married on the 9th of November last to a young
man by the name of John G. Ratcliff He is a
poor but very industrious young man and I expect will
make a good living. They live with me and we make one
family. For I must tell you that my my poor and
unfortunate daughter Elizabeth had lost her reason
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| Title | Townsend Correspondence 1848 |
| Creator | Thomas Townsend |
| Date | 1848-02-25 |
| Description | A letter from Thomas Townsend to his brother discussing political issues of the day, catching up on acquaintances, introducing some future gold prospectors, discussing the failing health of his daughter and the possibility of a national road from St. Louis to San Francisco. |
| Subject-TGM |
Correspondence |
| Object Type | correspondence |
| Format | jpeg |
| Rights | We have determined this work to be in the public domain, meaning that it is not subject to copyright. Users are free to copy, use, and redistribute the work in part or in whole. It is possible that current copyright holders, heirs or the estate of the authors of individual portions of the work, such as illustrations or photographs, assert copyrights over these portions. Depending on the nature of subsequent use that is made, additional rights may need to be obtained independently of anything we can address. |
| Collection | Townsend Family Papers 1826-1914 |
| Language | english |
| Repository | California Room, San Jose Public Library |
| Transcript | Dr. John Townsend San Francisco California movement coming from him may and probably will succeed and that case this will be a good communication between this and San Francisco In the mean times of the companies or the government - carry a Telegraph wire across you and I might - considerable conversations with each other on the same day I remain your affectionate Brother Thomas Townsend Wheeling Va 25th of 2 Mo. 1848 Dear Brother I have been lately reminded of writing by being called on to give letters of introduction to you by two gentlement of this place who have the "yellow fever" so badly that it will take them off to California. The rage for the Gold Region is great all over the United States and even in Europe. Companies are made up or are in the act of being made up in almost every town in this country and even in London and other parts of Europe according to the accounts we read. One company will start from this city about the 20th of next month and one atarted eight or ten days ago from St Clairsville ten metrs west of this. This last went to New York and calculate to sail round Cape Horn - I would be very glad to receive a letter from you that I might learn the truth and form some estimate of how much of any the plentiness of Gold on the small tributaries of the Sacramento may approach the ap- parently exaggerated stories which have been published When I wrote to you last I informed you that Amos's daughter Mary had come up from Indiana and was then living with me. She is still living with me Ahe was married on the 9th of November last to a young man by the name of John G. Ratcliff He is a poor but very industrious young man and I expect will make a good living. They live with me and we make one family. For I must tell you that my my poor and unfortunate daughter Elizabeth had lost her reason |
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| File Name | csj-TownsendCorr-019a.jpg |
| Title | Townsend |
| Creator | Thomas Townsend |
| Date | 1848-02-25 |
| Description | A letter from Thomas Townsend to his brother discussing political issues of the day, catching up on acquaintances, introducing some future gold prospectors and the possibility of a national road from St. Louis to San Francisco. |
| Object Type | Correspondence |
| Format | jpeg |
| Rights | We have determined this work to be in the public domain, meaning that it is not subject to copyright. Users are free to copy, use, and redistribute the work in part or in whole. It is possible that current copyright holders, heirs or the estate of the authors of individual portions of the work, such as illustrations or photographs, assert copyrights over these portions. Depending on the nature of subsequent use that is made, additional rights may need to be obtained independently of anything we can address. |
| Collection | Townsend Family Papers 1826-1914 |
| Language | english |
| Repository | California Room, San Jose Public Library |
| Transcript | Dr. John Townsend San Francisco California movement coming from him may and probably will succeed and that case this will be a good communication between this and San Francisco In the mean times of the companies or the government - carry a Telegraph wire across you and I might - considerable conversations with each other on the same day I remain your affectionate Brother Thomas Townsend Wheeling Va 25th of 2 Mo. 1848 Dear Brother I have been lately reminded of writing by being called on to give letters of introduction to you by two gentlement of this place who have the "yellow fever" so badly that it will take them off to California. The rage for the Gold Region is great all over the United States and even in Europe. Companies are made up or are in the act of being made up in almost every town in this country and even in London and other parts of Europe according to the accounts we read. One company will start from this city about the 20th of next month and one atarted eight or ten days ago from St Clairsville ten metrs west of this. This last went to New York and calculate to sail round Cape Horn - I would be very glad to receive a letter from you that I might learn the truth and form some estimate of how much of any the plentiness of Gold on the small tributaries of the Sacramento may approach the ap- parently exaggerated stories which have been published When I wrote to you last I informed you that Amos's daughter Mary had come up from Indiana and was then living with me. She is still living with me Ahe was married on the 9th of November last to a young man by the name of John G. Ratcliff He is a poor but very industrious young man and I expect will make a good living. They live with me and we make one family. For I must tell you that my my poor and unfortunate daughter Elizabeth had lost her reason |
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