Topics include selling butter, barley and potato harvests and prices, the grasshoppers' destruction of the wheat crop, and the illnesses among family and friends.
Topics include managing Edward's accounts through agents in Vermont, the birth of his daughter, the health of his family, the climate in California, and selling his Milk Pans.
Topics include Henrietta's collecting of debts for Edward, a large fire on the wharf in Sacramento and the steam fire engines that dealt with it, and Edward's new business activities.
Topics include an injury he incurred while trying to put a halter on a wild mustang, arrangements for receiving sugar from Craig, and plans to send canned fruit and pictures.
Topics include the improved health of his daughter, his accounts in Vermont, and the potential trade of goods between Vermont and California, especially sugar.
