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San Francisco Nov 28th Sunday.

My Dear Mother,

Your kind letter dated as
East Pepperell Oct 17th was recieved [received] last Sunday --

I was happy to hear of the continued good health
you have enjoyed the past summer & the present Autumn

Hope you will continue to be blessed with health
and prosperity, together with Charles, Hattie & all my friends

My health is good & has been so ever since my ar-
rival in this golden country, which is to be prized
above gold. Next to good health the greatest blessing
allowed me is the privilege of hearing from you all
every fortnight which I have done thus far since the
20th August. & I hope I shall continue to do so as long
as I remain in this country & I shall endeavor to
write you by every mail even if (as you say) I do not
write, but a few words. You can have no idea of
the pleasure it gives me to fenese a kind letter from
my now distant home, & more particularly when
recieved [received] from my best friend on earth -- a kind Mother
whose kindness towards me I hope I may yet be allowed
to return. Since I last wrote you I have changed
my lodgings from the store which I formerly owned to a
little room near my place of business & I now have
two roommates. Samual P. Tucker & a young man by the
name of Eli Harrison who formerly lived with Appleton
Lawrence in Pepperell, & we enjoy ourselves first rate

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Tuesday Eve. Nov. 30th Am well. The mail close at 10 O'clock. I have not had time
to write to Charles or Hattie but shall send H. a paper. Hope you
are all well and that you will write me often, shall expect
a letter from you the last of this week as the as the mail is now
nearly due.
Your Loving Son H. A. Parker [Henry A. Parker]