cams_hparker_2311_f002_017_1

San Francisco Sept 28th 1853

My Dear Mother,

Your kind letter dated
Aug 18th, was recieved [received] the 20th inst -- & happy indeed
was I to hear of the favorable change in Charles's
health & I hope you are all free from sickness
at the present time.

C. has indeed had a hard time of it having had
the longest & severest fit of sickness that our family
have ever been afflicted with, since my remem-
brance, but thanks to a "kind mother" he has
recieved [received] the best of care & attention which I trust
will be the means of restoring him to good health

I often think that I should be in a bad situation
if I were sick & I hardly know what would become
of me, but thus far I have been blessed with the
best of health, & at the present time my health
is as good as usual & I hope it may continue so.

I am sorry, to hear that Mr. Tuckers family
think of removing from P. as I am, well aware
that you will miss them very much as well as
their many acts of kindness. I should miss them
very much were I to return home & find them
absent from there & I know they have always been
kind to you as well as to me, & I fear that when they
are gone there will be no one left who will be so