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I was glad you wrote me about Mrs Betsey
Tucker and Mr. Samuel Chase, as Sam Tucker [Samuel P. Tucker]
being here just now, I was able to tell him
what you wrote concerning them. He was glad
to hear that his mother continued so smart
during the cold weather.

Then you wrote that Henrietta Parker was
married about a year ago, which was news to
me or else if I ever knew that she was finally
married I had forgotten it ere now.

Then again you wrote that Mrs Sewell, heard
from Abel P. Lawrence quite often, so I conclude
that he is at present away from home al-
though I had never heard of it before, and
now you did not write whereabouts he is
but merely said he was teaching school and
getting $28.00 per month for doing so.

When you answer this, please write me
where he is teaching.

Give my love to Charles and Harriet
and remember me to Uncle Bradly [Bradley] and family
and all others of my friends. Tell them all
that I am well, and intend to come home
sometime, if I can get there.

Sam, and Chas, do not know for a certainty
when they shall start for home, but I guess
not at present. Mrs Graves (formerly Miss Chapin)
is living at Columbia and Louis C. lives there
with them, Augustine (I believe I wrote you) went home
about two months ago,)

Your loving son

H A Parker [Henry A. Parker]

[written vertically in left margin]
Monday eve, Jany 15th I am as well as usual this evening. Sam. [Samuel P. Tucker] & Charles left here
for Columbia this afternoon, all well. - I noticed a few days since, the marriage
of Jackson Lewis, of San Jose, Brother to Crosby Lewis. --