Tite Peebles well known frisco not professor keeps faro bank.
_Telegram from Messrs. Hitchcock and Van Rensselaer to Messrs. Pixley and Sutton, in answer to the preceding._
Must be mistake Titus Peebles distinguished scientist.
HITCHCOCK & VAN RENSSELAER (Free. Answer to D. H.)
_Telegram from Messrs. Pixley and Sutton to Messrs. Hitchcock and Van Rensselaer, in reply to the preceding._
No mistake distinguished faro banker suspected skin game shall we interview.
_Telegram from Messrs. Hitchcock and Van Rensselaer to Messrs. Pixley and Sutton, in reply to the preceding._
HITCHCOCK & VAN RENSSELAER. (Free. Answer to D. H.)
_Telegram from Messrs. Pixley & Sutton to Messrs. Hitchcock and Van Rensselaer, in reply to the preceding._
_Letter from Tite W. Peebles, delegate to the California Constitutional Convention, Sacramento, to Messrs. Pixley and Sutton, 98 California Street, San Francisco, California._
GENTLEMEN: Your favor of the 31st ult., forwarded me from San Francisco, has been duly rec’d, and contents thereof noted.
My time is at present so fully occupied by my duties as a delegate to the Constitutional Convention that I can only jot down a brief report of my recollections on this head. When I return to S. F., I shall be happy to give you any further information that may be in my possession.
The person concerning whom you inquire was my fellow passenger on my first voyage to this State on board the _Mercy G. Tarbox_, in the latter part of the year. He was then known as Mr. William Beauvoir. I was acquainted with his history, of which the details escape me at this writing. He was a countryman of mine; a member of an important county family--Devonian, I believe--and had left England on account of large gambling debts, of which he confided to me the exact figure. I believe they totted up something like £14,500.
I had at no time a very intimate acquaintance with Mr. Beauvoir; during our sojourn on the _Tarbox_ he was the chosen associate of a depraved and vicious character named Phœnix. I am not averse from saying that I was then a member of a profession rather different to my present one, being, in fact, professor of metallurgy, and I saw much less, at that period, of Mr. B. than I probably should now.