![]() ![]() ![]() He will write to you soon as he finds another home. ![]() Wm's family was well when I left Springfield a month ago. I came here last evening & leave tomorrow morning on the long journey. I am willing to go & have no doubt it will be an advantage to our children & to us. We take cows along & milk them & have butter though not so much as we would like. We have three waggons furnished with food & clothing &c, drawn by three yoke of oxen each. We go to California, to the bay of San Francisco. It is supposed there will be 7000 waggons start from this place this season. I can give you no idea of the hurry of this place at this time. My three daughters are around me one at my side trying to sew, Georgianna fixing herself up in (an) old indiarubber cap, & Eliza Poor knocking on my paper & asking me ever so many questions. Greenleaf & every month have intended to write. One would suppose that I loved her but little or I should have not neglected her so long. A nice sheet of pink letter paper was taken out & has got so much soiled that it cannot be written upon & now in the midst of preparation for starting across the mountains I am seated on the grass in the midst of the tent to say a few words to my dearest & only sister. My dear sister, I commenced writing to you months ago but the letter was laid aside to be finished the next day & was never touched. On this day 177 years ago, Tamsen Donner wrote the following letter to her sister: Independence, Mo. ![]()
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