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Tell Widow Bond I have sold her gun tolerably well and hope she will be benefited by it on my return. I can hardly expect to be favored with so rich a blessing as a letter from you till I reach San Francisco. I have written you five or six letters since I reached that place. I almost envy you the peas, potatoes, onions, gooseberries, strawberries, etc. I hope you enjoy them all well, as well as the milk and butter and eggs. Tell Timothy to save the oats and peas in Mr. Robinson's barn if he can. Do not forget to remember me affectionately to him and all the family. I should have writ- ten Mr. Perry before this, but all my time is occupied, and I have somewhat expected that he would be in the mines be- fore this time. Mining business is generally very dull; per- haps half the miners are doing but little more than paying expenses. Give my respects to all the friends. Write me at San Francisco and let me know what groceries and cloth- ing the family will need the coming winter.

Your affectionate husband and father,

EZRA FISHER.

To Lucy Fisher and all the children.

Mrs. Lucy Fisher,

Clatsop Plains, Oregon. To be left at Astoria, care of Mrs. Ingles.

San Francisco, Cal., July 18, 1849. Rev. Benj. M. Hill,

Cor. Sec. A. B. H. M. Soc. Dear Brother:

In a letter of the 29th of February I think I gave you my apology for visiting California and going to the mines. I now wish to say that my stay in the mines was a little more than eight weeks, in which I am not conscious that I have performed any essential service to the cause of Christ, farther than that my influence went to suppress the out- breaking sins of those with whom I associated. During those eight weeks I preached but two Sabbaths, and I sup- pose these were the only sermons which have ever been