Gold Rush Era Collections

I saw Mr Shipley day before yesterday.

He is rather unwell but is so as to be about, as he walked from where he lives down to my stand, a distance of more than a mile.

I think he would like to go on to Massachusetts if he was so situated that he could go conveniently, but I guess he will not get away from here this season. Perhaps he will conclude to wait and go home along with me.

We are now just beginning to have our summer weather. Cold winds every afternoon blow in from the sea, so that is more pleasant in the winter season when it does not rain, than it is now, but I have got through two California summers and a part of a third very comfortably and if my life is spared, I am in hopes to get through the coming one in the same way.

Give my love to Chas. [Charles] & Hattie [Harriet] and accept a good share yourself from Your loving Son H. A. Parker [Henry A. Parker]

To Mrs Ann Parker East Pepperell Mass