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At 4 Oclock P.M. we took the boat to San Francisco where
we arrived Sunday morning after having been gone a week
having made about $40. out of pocket We went directly
to our old boarding place Mrs Millers & it again received
us a little like home. I will now inform you with regard to
my money affairs &c. When I arrived here I had $189. I received
for my cards $66. & I shall have after paying this weeks board
$100. I have lent Friend Fisk 57 dolls so that my expenses have
been $98. & I am now living as economical as possible. I have
as yet found nothing to do but shall in the course of the
week. One thing is certain. If I was now in the States
making a good living & knew what I now do about this
country I should by all means stay there & I would not
advise anyone to think of coming out here, but as long
as I am out here I shall stop a while & try and do something.

I have not as yet Seen Saml Tucker [Samuel P. Tucker] although I learned
from Mr Walton that he came down here from the mines while
I went up there, stopped here a day or two & then went to
some other place but where I cannot learn. Give my
love to all my friends & I hope & trust that one of you will
write me a good long letter by every mail as a letter from
a New England home & friends is acknowledged by all to be
the greatest luxury and goes farther to make one happy than any
thing to be found in California.

I remain as ever Your Affct Son
& Your affct & loving brother H. A. Parker [Henry A. Parker]

P.S. Bro Charles Please
write me and give me an account of your school of your
focols, garden &c. What do you think of common hens bringing $40 per doz
& Eggs $2.50 per Doz. (The mail for Cal. leaves the states on the 5th & 20th of
each month.

At 4 Oclock P.M. we took the boat to San Francisco where
we arrived Sunday morning after having been gone a week
having made about $40. out of pocket We went directly
to our old boarding place Mrs Millers & it again received
us a little like home. I will now inform you with regard to
my money affairs &c. When I arrived here I had $189. I received
for my cards $66. & I shall have after paying this weeks board
$100. I have lent Friend Fisk 57 dolls so that my expenses have
been $98. & I am now living as economical as possible. I have
as yet found nothing to do but shall in the course of the
week. One thing is certain. If I was now in the States
making a good living & knew what I now do about this
country I should by all means stay there & I would not
advise anyone to think of coming out here, but as long
as I am out here I shall stop a while & try and do something.

I have not as yet Seen Saml Tucker [Samuel P. Tucker] although I learned
from Mr Walton that he came down here from the mines while
I went up there, stopped here a day or two & then went to
some other place but where I cannot learn. Give my
love to all my friends & I hope & trust that one of you will
write me a good long letter by every mail as a letter from
a New England home & friends is acknowledged by all to be
the greatest luxury and goes farther to make one happy than any
thing to be found in California.

I remain as ever Your Affct Son
& Your affct & loving brother H. A. Parker [Henry A. Parker]

P.S. Bro Charles Please
write me and give me an account of your school of your
focols, garden &c. What do you think of common hens bringing $40 per doz
& Eggs $2.50 per Doz. (The mail for Cal. leaves the states on the 5th & 20th of
each month.