cams_hparker_2311_f002_018_2

Probably your out-door work is
now well nigh completed & I hope you will write
me all about the crops &c [etc.] on receipt of this &
let me hear of your success in farming during
the past year. On account of Chas [Charles Parker] severe sickness
the garden did not do as well I suppose, as it
would have done had he been able to attend
to it through the season.

By the way, how did C's watermelons flourish
from those seeds which I sent him last Spring?

Please tell him that if he will write me
about them. I will write him again in return
& send some muskmelon seeds, which I have saved
for him. I was glad to hear that you had a plenty
of fruit this season & I wish I could have been there
to have helped devour it, but never mind
my time will come by & by, & then I shall endeavor
to improve it ---

One thing I must not forget to tell you, & that
is that I have received a very polite invitation
to "dine out" Thanksgiving, which comes on the 24th
Nov. Who do you think it was from? Why from my
friend S. P. Tucker [Samuel P. Tucker]. I recieved [received] a letter from him
a day or two since saying that he was still at
Columbia at work mining & doing well. He &
Chas Wright work & live together & for a few days
before he wrote they had been repairing up their
log cabin for winter. He thinks that they can
live through the winter comfortably, as they have got