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There are now about sixteen Pepperell folks in this
country & most of them are at the mines & how
they are doing cannot tell Hope however they are
doing well as I should not wish to have any of them
return & be dependent on their friends for support
although some of us may be obliged to Still I hope
not. There is at the present time a great deal of
poverty & suffering even in this golden country
& there are now I might say thousands who
would be glad to return to the states had they
the means of doing so. Flour in some parts of the
mines this winter has been as high as 1$ per lb
Potatoes 50 cts per lb & all other provisions in proportion
A great many have died having I suppose starved
to death or almost. In fact it has been one of
the hardest winters known in California --

I wrote a few lines to Charles but forgot to men-
tion one thing to him which I meant to have done
& I wish you would just speak to him about it

Tell him that I want him to send me his
Miniature which he can do through the Post Office
by doing it up in a nice compact form. I will pay
all expenses & will be much obliged to him if he will
send it & I wish you would tell him to be sure &
do so. As I have nearly filled my sheet will now close Please re-
member me to all my friends. "That we may yet meet & be reunited
& a happy family as when we were young children is not only the
sincere wish of my kind mother" but also of her affct [affectionate] Son H. A. Parker [Henry A. Parker]

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