Dr John Townsend
san Francisco
Cal
Monterey June 2nd 1848
Dear
Brother
I embrace this opportunity of informing
you of the forlorn state of Monterey
Every Boddy has the Gold fever
I am suprised that you have not
written to me something about it
I am informed that you are also
going to Dig for a living.
If there be any truth in the Report
I wish to let me ? with nerby
in Sterling. I can perhaps do better
there than here. Mr. Glidden says they pay
30$ pr. day for a cook ? cook
times and ? in now than
each new them in my life cash
sales ? strokes,
yours in Haste
Moses Schallenberger