The Fassett Letters
- Letter #13
Date: 8/8/1853
Place:
[Placerville]
From:
Ann
To:
Mother and
all
Aug
8,
1853
Dear
Mother and all,
I
have
hardly time to write a few lines that you may know we are all well. the
mail is
due this evening and I hope to hear that you and Father are home
& all
well. We were glad to hear from you at Vermont, & would like to
know about
the visit with Fathers girl. (Father wasnt Mother
just the least bit
jealous. Say. I wont tell.) the idea that mother wanted to see her
because Aunt
Sally loved her pleased me not a little. I hope
& think the journey
has been a great help to Mother, and think if she could come here it
would
pretty near or quite cure her. Chit is well and doing well, wish you
could step
in & eat some of the noblest watermelons you ever saw with him.
only 6 bits
& a dollar apiece, but then a dollar is nothing here. I can
earn one in an
hour at washing ironing baking or sewing. I can take a school here and
make 20
dollars a week. the common price here is a dollar per week for every
scholar.
If it was not for baking I would teach and take the children with me. I
wish
Jane or Sarah were here to make their pile. My
health is excellent. I
never worked as hard in my life. Parker and I make 30 & 40
dollars per
week. we are all very well. the children grow fast. Dwight saved $9.00
&
bought 5 chickens, and now he has $3.00 more laid up. he says he would
like to
buy all of Uncle Israel’s chickens at Ohio prices, then sell
them here at our
prices, “would’nt I make money Mother.”
he says we would buy a farm then go
& bring you all out here. says Father ought to brought Grandma
Germain with
us. we have watermelons from July till Nov. I never saw as good
anywhere.
vegables grow so quick they are very sweet & tender. write
often all of
you. I will try and write a little every month. Love to all, everybody.
Good
bye I’m in a great hurry.
Yours,
Ann.
[The
following is upside down at the top of
the page.]
Eggs are
from 2 to 3 dollars per doz. now. in the winter 6.
[The
following is sideways on the back of the
page.]
I
send you a Baptist paper.
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