The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1874-01-02


san Francisco, July :, IS72
MY Dear d Friend, Samuel Corwin:-
nave no doubt but you viii be much surprised
on receiving this letter, but, perhaps, not more
50, or more sratified, than / was to hear froin
You. The manner in which / heard nom you
ana learned Of your Wherea bouts is This.
ulppeneu 70 be looking over an Oregon paper
ana noticed your name, as representative elect
from IIilamook county. The thrill of pleasure
which experienced on reading is indeScribt-
bic. The Hany acts of kindness which l re-
ceiVed at your hands long years ago had never
been forgotten, Notwithstanding our corre,-
pOndence las been broken for seventeen years
Well, sam ! won't attempt TO give YOU more
than the outlines OF what has transpired with
me since We last correSpouded. so many Incl
dents OF the paSt, in which YOU and We're con
necied, crowd upon my mind That 1 cannot
think or wri OF myself Does your mind ever
revert 10 tIe past, when we first mellow You
took me in q partner when those who
should have been my best friends threw of on
mellow sc got showed in and had TO live ON
potatoes str light for six weeks-hOw good thar
grizzly me0 tasted-what n disgraceful retreat
we made T. Om our poor innocent Jack, when
We thought we were beseiged by q grizzly .
Well, sam, hose events OF iSi2 frequently fur
nish subject matter for my thoughts, and, as I
am WIltlhg 20 yOui crowd upon my mind, but
Will dismiss them for the present 10 give place
TO that iich viii, perhaps, be OF greater inter
pOckote1 eleven thousand dollars out of the
deep Claim" you gave me in Maraposa, and
started fer home in June, lSll. invested four
thousand dollars in real estate in this city amt
left il in arc Of McIane, our Old cabin mate. VI Y
property "a re has yielded me handsome in
I come ftul flulutuptfQ IN value. went INTO
business ID New York city, in which was very
success a. sold ont two years ago, since which
I time u v been travelling in European cOun-
I tries. iJu know used 10 have a weakness for
travelin well, IL has been gratifled to my
hearts cor tent. While in France / was taken
with the - lall-pOX. The lady OF the inn told
me that -as fortunate to take the disease at
that place, as there was an old smallpox doe
I tor near 0s who never failed to cure, no matter
how haO a. G disease; and sure enough, bsgan
I to recover within four hours after commencing
TO take he medicine and in twenty-fOur hours
/ felt quits we'll. 7 was so much elated with
the mag icdl effects OF the medicine that WAS
determined, If possible, 70 obtain the fornu la,
I'm which 7 succeeded, by paying handsomely
and pro n sing not 10 diyulge 10 in France.
! see ON Oregon papers that you have The
disease among You. The enclosed package
contains ihe formula and sufficient material
for fam Is use. / have cured all the cases that
I have 90 ne in contact with, and find IL an in
mllible cure and preventive When YOU an
swer ia $ I will forward sufficient OF the mate
rial 10 make yOu a fortune, As 1 have ample,
and res. assured reciprOcate past EtvOrs-
/ viii. close for the present and await anO-
iOusly our answer Direct to san Francisco,
rs 1 vii remain here about two months.
Your. tC-, ISAAC RICHARDSON.