The Fassett Letters - Letter #74
One sheet of cream
paper folded
to make four sheets 75/8 x 93/4” embossed in upper left
corner “Congress / G&T Mfg. Co.”
Date:
Sept. 2, 1860
Place: San Francisco
From: Chittenden
To:
Dr. H. Fassett
San Franco
Sept 2d 1860
Doct
H. Fassett
Granville
O
Dear
Father
I have none of your favors to
acknowledge but I know if
Mother did not write so punctually you would I consider I am indebted
to you always on the score of correspondence. I have just Received
Mothers of 5th August
also Mary and Janes of Same date. I am pleased to
learn that you are all getting along so well. Tell Mother I do not Know
how many Letters I have written since I returned probably not as many
as I ought but I think more than you have received. She says you want
more money. I presume you do not need that now as there was some funds
on the way when she wrote. Enclosed
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second sheet.]
find Fifty
Dollar Bill on Union
Bank of Missouri which I took a day or two since of a friend of mine.
guaranteed by him to me. should it not be good please return it
immediately to me if good keep it untill you need it of course I shall
expect you
to acknowledge Receipt of this Letter, and you may write as
much as you please. I received a Letter from John just before he left
home (none since) but I have not yet answered him I have a great deal
of writing to do and am apt to neglect any but business Letters. am
very glad to hear through mothers Letter that Johns health is improving
I think his going to Lake Superior a good thing for him Our business
goes on well. this is our busy season we call it yet it does not seem
much different from any other, as we always have enough to do. I hope
we are doing well we have every facility for doing a large and
profitable business. If I do not
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third sheet.]
make a
fortune. (which I intend to
do.) I flatter myself I have a name and reputation which are some
satisfaction for the many drawbacks I have had to encounter. It seems
to me now could a Young man just Starting see how much he would have to
go through to make a competency, few would undertake it and they would
be brave. we had a Fire in our Town of Pacheco two weeks ago. we lost
nothing but ran a very narrow risk of the whole town going All are well
at Pacheco. I have Letters every day from them. I have heard nothing
from Truman and family since I returned. Politics is the general topic
of conversation here. I take no interest whatever in it. Breckenridge
and Lane will carry this state but not Oregon. I dont think Lane could
get a hundred votes in this State, other than as the Regular Democratic
Nominee.
He is a miserable Stick. There are 50,000 men in the U.S.
better calculated for any office. will write mother and Mary soon. Love
to all, Uncle E, Aunt and Amanda.
Your
Afft Son Chittenden
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