True 49er letter. 3.5 pages. 2.5 pages about the voyage over. Stampless cover with San Francisco, Oct. 1 stamp. Handwritten 40 for postage. The letter says that the ship has not moved in the last 36 hours the ocean is so still. "I begin to feel the want of a vegetable diet. I would give considerable for a good dish of potatoes Two porpoises have been caught since last night. Both have been eater, I do not expect we will find much gold...we shall have the advantage of living a wild life freed from care of civilization. How pleasant I will be to hunt & fish." On September 2, the letter is finished about the projected gold rush trip. "We start tomorrow for the mines our joint destination is the Yuba Creek a branch of the Feather River...leave behind our beds...it is the most pleasant season to work I never felt better our camp is located directly on the Shore of the bay. A man died this morning. His name was Stephen Crook (Cook?) one of the men that with Marshall first found gold at Sutter's Mill...We shall build a log house at the mine..." Part of the letter is about life in New York, but there is more to be read about the trip and preparing for the mining adventure.Date: 1849Country (if not USA): State: CaliforniaCity: San FranciscoProvenance: