2 Long may you live to enjoy the richest of Heavens blessings. You quite surprised me in the dispatch made in making yourself
a married man. though I was looking for the news in your Last, sooner or later. I was sorry not to see you when I was in the
city the first of April. I can hardly think I was so unsettled in my mind as to write you that I was coming to F illegible
the week you looked for me which was spent in B ville. I arrived in Oakland the 31st of Mar. and spent one day at Mr Gibsons
leaving the 3d Apr. But it is not to be wondered 3 that you should get things confused about that time. No doubt that
the days did rush by in a strange manner and if your friend Brown? will excuse you for sending him out to 1827 Market? Street
on a fruitless errand why I am willing. But I have not quite forgiven you for not letting me see nor hear from you in all
that time and don t believe I shall till that picture of yours comes with one of Mrs J Muir. though I hardly dare hope for
the latter but should appreciate it much more than the one you sent me last and prize it too.