Letter #57
One
folded sheet blue
paper with four 7¾ x 9¾” pages (three
lined), embossed in upper left corner
Date: 4/3/1859
Place: San
Francisco
From: Chittenden
To: Mrs. C.H. Fassett
San
Francisco 3d April/59
Mrs.
C. H. Fassett
Granville Ohio
Dear Mother
Yours of
_____ date
was Received
per
last mail and forwarded to Pacheco for Ann and Harris. Wm Hale and
Seeley Bennett arrived on last Steamer 29th Mch Seeley has
the Chills, Hale well. They were left at Tehauntepec two weeks by the grounding
of the River Steamer but as I ascertained the reason of their being left I did
not feel uneasy. They say it is a fine route naturally but accommodations very poor.
Musquitos &c very plenty. Hale says he is very glad to get back home
again and I Think most Californians feel the same way after a visit to the
States probably on account of the difference in customs habits &c which
becomes nearly second nature by long associations. I am very sorry that you are
looking for me for I find it impossible to come home this summer as our
business season will commence soon and I have so much to do it would not be
wise to leave at this season and prospects are good for business. If Mr Hale
had returned one month earlier as he had intended I should have come. but
within the last month things have transpired which prevent my coming I shall
come this fall or early winter certain as I can make my arrangements so to
leave. but if I should leave now I should feel uneasy and in a hurry to get
back while if I wait untill Fall my presence is not so necessary in winter and
trade dull I can enjoy the visit so much the better. I have friends going this
and the next Steamer which I should like much to go with, but business before
pleasure always with me. hope sometime to get fixed so that I can visit you
more frequently. I know you will not think I do not want to come but that it is
a necessity that keeps me here I have been looking forward for two years with
pleasure to a visit home and it seems hard to delay it for half a year more.
but so it must be hope you will resume your letters to me direct as soon as you
receive this as I get them three or four days sooner than if they go to
Martinez first. all well at Pacheco I am going up there in a day or two. We are
much obliged for the Daguerotypes. Recd a letter from Harris this
morning. There was a Steamboat Explosion this morning on the Bay this morning,
have not full particulars but you will get them in your paper by this mail. two
or three known to be killed. my best love to all. write often if you want any
money send to me always. Yours as ever.
Chittenden
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