cams_hparker_2311_f003_022_1

San Francisco Sept 24th 1854

Dear Mother,

I know not how to have
a Sabbath evening any more pleasantly, or to
any better purpose than by writing you.

I have as usual been tending at the
Stand, selling books, knives, combs &c, and you
probably are well aware, that I am in the
habit of doing business on the Sabbath.

My health is as good as usual, notwith-
standing your presentment that something
serious had befallen me

I received your kind letter of the 17th Aug
the 19th inst and was very happy to hear
that you were all enjoying good health
and were comfortably situated in every
respect, am glad that Harriet had recovered
from the measles and that she has so good
an appetite though the hot-weather.

You say Charles is enjoying good health
but was rather thin -- scarcely weighted 140 lbs.

Now I at the present time am quite fleshy,
still I only weight 133 or 134 lbs. and I never
weighed, to the best of my knowledge over
138, and I think if C. weighs 140 lbs when he is
thin he must be quite a boy when he is fleshy!!!