cams_hparker_2311_f003_018_3

the best and for the good of all of us.

Somehow or other I do not seem to be ready to
start for New England although I cannot say that
I like this country now, nor have I done so at any
time since I have been here, but so long as I continue
to hear that you are all getting along at home as well
or perhaps better than you would if I were there and
as I am now comfortably situated here I do not
seem inclined to make a start --

As yet, the only respect in which I have been fortunate
is in the enjoyment of almost perfect health ever since
my arrival here in California, which I am happy
to inform you remains the same as usual. Good --

In your last letter your wrote, that you thought that
if I could only add a little to the amount of mony [money] which
I already have, that I should be willing to return home
and never think of returning to California again.

You think in this case just about as I do and
perhaps the only object I could name that I have in view
at the present time for stopping here longer is to add that
little which you speak of. As I wrote you sometime ago
I have made nothing here as yet, to speak of and in fact
now I have only made up what I was behind hand
before that time and perhaps a trifle more, but now if
I am successful in my undertakings for a few months
I shall be able to gain a little -- at any rate I am
determined to keep moving. And if I fail in one thing
try another until I can accomplish something ---

Good night