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San Francisco Febry [February] 18th 1855

Dear Mother

Your kind letter dated
Jan 17th I received last evening -- just --
one month after your wrote it. I was
very glad to hear that you were all
well and comfortably situated.

The mail was much longer coming
through from New York this time. That it
usually is owing to their having sent one
of the old slow boats from Panama, up
here, but our letters came along, after awhile
and I believe I think more of them, few
having been obliged to wait a day or two
after they were due, before I received them.

I closed up our stand last night --
at eleven oclock [o'clock] -- there after reading over
the letters, that I received from you, and
Mr. Tucker and his family, I retired to bed
at about Twelve oclock [o'clock]. At two oclock [o'clock] I
was awakened again by an alarm of fire
and on going to the window, I found the
fire was very near our sleeping rooms,
and directly opposite our Davis St Stand.

I hurried on my clothes, and went out.

[written vertically in left margin]
Give my love to Chas. and Harriet,
and remember me to all my friends.
HAP [Henry A. Parker]