I had yesterday the great pleasure of receiving your letter of the 24th Feb’y.

We are all here comfortably, as you will have heard by Telegraph. Mary sends her love to you and Fanny, and will write you in a few days, “for self and partner.”

I want now to trouble you with some business. I propose to establish a Reading and Coffee Room at one of our mining camps and wish you would order for me at Willmer’s and Rogers’s, the following English periodicals:

London Illustrated News		$12.00
"	"   Times	$ 6.00
"	Punch	$ 6.00
"	Fun	$ 3.00
"	Lloyd’s Weekly	$ 3.00
"	Weekly Times	$ 3.00
"	Reynolds Miscellany	$ 3.00
"	Welcome Guest	$ 2.00
"	Leisure Hours	$ 3.00
"	New Penny Magazine	$  .50
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"	Casewell’s Illustrated Weekly	$ 3.00
"	Chamber’s Journal	$ 3.00
"	British Workman	$  .50
"	Mining and Smelting Magazine	$ 5.00
"	Australian Gazette	$ 3.00
Cornish Telegraph		$10.00
		$66.00

Also, at the Tribune Office, the Weekly, or California, Tribune, The Tribune Almanac and Cochin’s Results of Emancipation.

Also the Weekly, or California, Times, Porter’s Spirit of the Times, The Scientific American, Harper’s Weekly, Leslie’s Illustrated News, Harper’s Monthly, The Ledger, Forney’s War Press, Philadelphia; The Living Age, Boston.

The American lot will cost I think $35.00 to $40.00 you can ascertain exactly of the News Dealers. The price attached to the English list I take from Willmer’s circular. The whole amounts to about a hundred dollars. I enclose seventy five dollars and Dr. Jenkins will pay over to you an amount which will cover the remainder. I don’t know exactly how much it will be, but shorten or enlarge the list at your discretion according to the amount you receive from Dr. Jenkins.

Lloyd’s Weekly I suppose to be not the Commercial paper, but a popular Weekly. If I am wrong in my recollection of this, omit it.

The reason for taking so much cheap English stuff is that we want to draw off a considerable number of Cornish miners from the dram shops and gambling booths with the rest.