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San Francisco Nov 15th 1855
Thursday Evening

My Dear Mother

Your kind and very welcome
letter dated Oct 18th I recieved [received] yesterday morning.

I was happy indeed to hear from you --
and to hear that, with the exception of
bad colds, you were all enjoying good health --
hope you will pass the winter without
being sick, as I consider it the most trying
season of the year for a persons health --

I am as well as usual, and getting
along just the same, -- business is tolerably
good, and we seem to prosper very well.

Mr Noyes [Ephraim Noyes] is well, has been away this after-
noon, but has just returned. Wishes me
to give you his best respects whenever I write

His wife writes him by every mail.
Her health is better than it was two or
three months ago, and she intends to move
to Cambridgeport soon, where she will live
through the winter. She writes that it
would suit her to have Mr N. established
in Business in Boston, in company with
myself, as she likes to live in or near
the city. I do not think Mr N. will
be contented to remain here longer than the
first of May next.