The Genteel Gentile, Letters of Elizabeth Cumming, 1857 - 1858

Genteel Gentile, page 019

Black's Fork of Green River, Camp Scott-Utah Terry, 13th Deer 1857 ar Anne, Alfred has ,ust told me that a party of traders leave here to-morrow mtendmg to reach the States If pomble, and ~111 take letters for me A says he does noi b&eve they w,ll get through, but I will send a few lmes on a venture-to tell of our welfare We are all very well and becommg qu,te corn- fortable I am far better pleased in my cloth tents, than at the I'lanteis House St Ls Here we have pure an, water as good ai can be, & firewood in plenty, m place of ,mpure odors, bad & muddy water, & odmus soft coal, floating m the atmosphere staining your skin & clothes, blackening yr silver, & causina everv thina around to smell. & taste of s&her. The wmier chmate 1s dehghtful, &though the h,lls around us are very bleak & wmdy, we are encamped m a basin, so sur rounded by hills, that the wmds reach us very gently 79