cams_hparker_2311_f002_018_1

San Francisco Oct 27 1853

My Dear Mother,

I will now endeavor to
write you a few lines in answer to your kind
favor of the 17th Sept which I received the 15th inst --
containing the welcome intelligence of Charles's improved
state of health, also that you & Harriet were com-
fortably well all of which, of course, was gratifying
to me & I hope to hear by next mail that you
are all enjoying perfect health.

My health remains good as ever, & I am get-
ting along comfortably well & I like this country
as well now as I ever did & perhaps rather better
than I have heretofore. We are now having fine
warm weather, fruit is plenty &c. so that if a person
haves any money he can seem to enjoy himself
much better now than in the winter still
winter is soon coming on but I hope it will
not be so rainy a one as last winter was.
& most people seem to think it will not be --
For my part I prefer cold & snow to mud & rain
but care but little about seeing either.

I suppose you are now having cold weather,
frost & snow -- (not much snow either I guess for
it is now only the last of October) while we are
experiencing June weather.