1849 letter with a light Gilford, New Hampshire red postmark along with PAID and 5. Letter is datelined Meredith Bridge and it is the content that is most interesting.  The writer has heard the Mr. Brown is leaving for the gold fields and wants to make him a proposition: "Now sir, I am also desirous of visiting that part of the world and have not sufficient funds after supplying my family with enough to keep them from wants until I should return to do so and am anxious to make an arrangement with some one going to give me an outfit and have thought of making you a proposition and this is it...that you furnish me with five hundred dollars and alow (sic) me to accompany you out for which I will give you my note for seven hundred dollars payable there and secured by placing in your hands my life insurance for seven hundred dollars." The letter continues with more detail on the arrangement.  Of interest is a postscript: "Will you be so kind as to say nothing to any of my family unles (sic) it should be father and tell him to say nothing to any one."