The Fassett Letters - Letter #89
One
sheet of cream lined paper
folded to make four 5 x 8¼” pages and a half sheet
making two more pages
Date:
Mar 2, 1862
Place: Pacheco
From: H.H. Fassett
To:
Mother, Father, Sister
Pacheco Cal
March 2d 1862
Mrs C. H. Fassett
Granville Ohio
Dear Mother
Yours of
Dec 20th 1861 lies
before me and was not received until a few days ago
then I wrote you immediately and having nothing to do to day concluded
I might as well write you again to make up for lost time either in the
past or the future and furthermore to assure you that when nothing else
more urgent engages my attention will write to my Mother. As to taking
the world easier I do as easy as I can do you not all know how lazy you
always called me well I hold my own even
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if I do not
have many leasure
moments and you can rest assured I will not do more than I can do by
steady application and Sundays are now my resting days, so I think to
hold out finely and mean now to write you all oftner in future Chitt is
not yet back from Low- Cal expect him back in 15 or 20 days. our Coal
Mines are not doing anything yet but we expect to get into coal this
spring. If we do you may look from west to east and expect to see me
home in 5 years. Well the Irish Gal failed next try a Dutch one you
will get one after awhile that will answer the purpose. So you are
coaled sufficiently for one winter and I should not wonder if you had
cold enough for 2 or 3 winters Write often and oblige
Yours
Truly Harris
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p. 3
Dear Father
Although you
never write to me
yet I will
once again write you and hope to receive a good long answer even if it
only says “Son I am well Yours, Dad.” You
no doubt hear from me semi occasionally by Mother or your children.
Well we have just had the wetest season in Cal since it was settled by
Americans 49 & 52 are no where millions of property has been
carried away and almost every body has suffered therefrom Sacramento
and the great Valleis of Sacramento and San Joaquin have been under
water nearly all winter and many people have lost their lives in some
places Houses and whole families in them have been swept down the
raging streams people powerless to help them.
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I thought I
d
seen floods I knew I d heard of
them but “lo! the half had
not been told me.” Enough to give you any adequate idea of a
real California flood would fill a volume and so I will leave the
subject hoping never to see another one for they are terrific. I
tell
You Father Nellie is doing fine you would hardly Know her now she is
one of the heaviest stifled horses I ever saw and if she dont go next
summer then there is no use trying to get trotting Horses. Give my love
to all enquiring friends especially Uncle Elias & Aunt Jerusha,
Amanda Frank & Children and you and Willie must write me soon
and believe me ever Your affSon
H H Fassett
The
following was written at the top of page 1.
Who
did J Peck marry & when?
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p. 5
Pacheco
Cal March 2d 1862
Miss Mary
Fassett
Granville Ohio
Dear
Sister
At
last I received
a real bona fide letter from you and hasten to
answer that same I am 1000 or more times obliged to you for it and hope
now you have began that I shall receive a dose now and then from you
just to keep me from forgetting my little sister Mollie, Ghu!!! As to
your excuses for not writing they of course are satisfactory and ample
I know you are all busy at home all the time and even visiting is busy
business when followed the year round nothing like doing all you do do
with your might mind & strength
Written
vertically along the right edge of p. 5
“turn
over & oblige”
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p. 6
Oh! dear
Mary your
private affairs I ask not to pry into I do not wish others to interfere
with mine and if you & Norm are or are not – why of
course I’ll write to John about him please excuse me Mary, I
shall write to John next week will that do little Sis. What is the use
of the Boys trying to get married just to make a wedding in the family
pshaw they cant find anybody will have them as to the Lady on the wall
of course I put it there and I too send my love in return. I hope she
will not get lonesome or have the back ache by reason of her suspension
for, for many years she may have to stay on that perch and the Pin may
wear out. write soon to Bub
Harris
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