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John Townsend M. D.
Near San Jose
California
Our town is improving rapidly and every thing looks like
premanent and continued improvement because based on
industrial operations and production labour and without productive
labour no plan can be improved so as to stay improved
I have not seen as yet any person who has been actually
in Califronia This will tell you why you ought to give me some
information as to its geography
I remain your affectionate Brother
P.S. Give my kind remembrance to Elizabeth Tell her
I have not forgotten her
Mary sends her love to both of you
Wheeling Va 10th Mo 19th 1850
Dear Brother
I will embrace the opportunity of
writing by Reddick McKee a citizen of this place who
expects to start for San Francisco on the 21st and who has been ap-
pointed Indian Agent for your section fo the country. He says
he expects to spend the winter in San jose. He was formerly a
commission merchant here and perhaps you knew him.
In your last letter you requested me to write once a
month and I thought I would do it. But it is now two
month and a half since I wrote and I can assure you it
is a hard thing to do all the correspondence. If I knew
what you were doing or what you have in contemplation
or any thing specifick about your country to furnish me
matter for the writing of letters I could readily enough do it
But so far you have declined or neglected yo give me one
Geographical idea of California a piece of information
I am so very anxious to obtain and in all my letters have
requested so strongly yet I can get nothing. Can you not
tell me how far san Jose is from san Francisco and in what
direction North South east or West and so of Sacramento City What
their population business the population of San Francisco What the
climate soil productions I have asked in every letter whether
the soil and climate are such as will sustain a dense population after
the gold shall have been exhausted? How is the country timbered
and watered? Do the potatoes grow wild in the woods as they
do in Mexico? Could you not procure some potato seeds?
A lot of good Potato Seeds would be in this part of the
United States a great public good and eventually worth millions
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| File Name | csj-TownsendCorr-034a.jpg |
| Title | Townsend |
| Creator | Thomas Townsend |
| Date | 1850-10-19 |
| Description | A Letter from Thomas Townsend to his brother John asking again for information on the environmental and geological conditions of California and requesting potato seeds, in response to the potato blight happening on the East Coast, in order to start a new crop. |
| Object Type | Correspondence |
| Format | jpeg |
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| Collection | Townsend Family Papers 1826-1914 |
| Language | english |
| Repository | California Room, San Jose Public Library |
| Transcript | John Townsend M. D. Near San Jose California Our town is improving rapidly and every thing looks like premanent and continued improvement because based on industrial operations and production labour and without productive labour no plan can be improved so as to stay improved I have not seen as yet any person who has been actually in Califronia This will tell you why you ought to give me some information as to its geography I remain your affectionate Brother P.S. Give my kind remembrance to Elizabeth Tell her I have not forgotten her Mary sends her love to both of you Wheeling Va 10th Mo 19th 1850 Dear Brother I will embrace the opportunity of writing by Reddick McKee a citizen of this place who expects to start for San Francisco on the 21st and who has been ap- pointed Indian Agent for your section fo the country. He says he expects to spend the winter in San jose. He was formerly a commission merchant here and perhaps you knew him. In your last letter you requested me to write once a month and I thought I would do it. But it is now two month and a half since I wrote and I can assure you it is a hard thing to do all the correspondence. If I knew what you were doing or what you have in contemplation or any thing specifick about your country to furnish me matter for the writing of letters I could readily enough do it But so far you have declined or neglected yo give me one Geographical idea of California a piece of information I am so very anxious to obtain and in all my letters have requested so strongly yet I can get nothing. Can you not tell me how far san Jose is from san Francisco and in what direction North South east or West and so of Sacramento City What their population business the population of San Francisco What the climate soil productions I have asked in every letter whether the soil and climate are such as will sustain a dense population after the gold shall have been exhausted? How is the country timbered and watered? Do the potatoes grow wild in the woods as they do in Mexico? Could you not procure some potato seeds? A lot of good Potato Seeds would be in this part of the United States a great public good and eventually worth millions |
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