Indian Gulch Feb 16 1856
Friend Mills:
There is a general rule of letter writing, which would I think be well for you to study for the purpose of practicing upon. I have written as many letters to you as you have to me. when I finish this; and I have written two to Asa where he has written one to me. I am considerably of the opinion that it is a "hard road to travel over Jordan" and I have "e'en a'most" got the blues,---by the way blues are a funny trick, they come on one apparently without any just cause or provocation and go off quite as unreasonably but I did not propose to give you a dissertation on blues, but on better writing--but even that I will postpone to give you the news; and I don't really know what there is new. Some Chinamen were robbed last night but that is nothing new, robbing Chinamen is a common amusement up here and the fellows rather seem to like it of the two, at least they don't make much fuss about it.
Indian Gulch Feb 16 1856
Friend Mills:
There is a general rule of letter writing, which would I think be well for you to study for the purpose of practicing upon. I have written as many letters to you as you have to me. when I finish this; and I have written two to Asa where he has written one to me. I am considerably of the opinion that it is a "hard road to travel over Jordan" and I have "e'en a'most" got the blues,---by the way blues are a funny trick, they come on one apparently without any just cause or provocation and go off quite as unreasonably but I did not propose to give you a dissertation on blues, but on better writing--but even that I will postpone to give you the news; and I don't really know what there is new. Some Chinamen were robbed last night but that is nothing new, robbing Chinamen is a common amusement up here and the fellows rather seem to like it of the two, at least they don't make much fuss about it.