Dear mother an sister⁵ and mr Clark
I spend a few moments to inform
you the state of my health it is
very poor at present I have not
done any work for a week last week
I was quite sick for three days I
think I shall go to work in a 
day or two I was glad to hear from
you and that you were well I hope
these few lines will find you
enjoying good health and the wrest
of the folks in old glover⁶ write
how you get a long with your
haying I would like help yo
get hay I think.. that I should
feel beter to go back in the
country and work a while but I
don’t know I weather I shall or
not the crops are light this
way buter 20 cents a pound I would
like some of your buter down here
I send my best love to you
all I have not any more time
to write now please write as soon
As you get this 

  ^{1This letter is part of the Abbott Brothers Collection at Philadelphia 
     College in Pennsylvania.  Transcribed by the University of Massachusetts 
     Lowell, Center for Lowell History.
  2Jonas Abbott b: 1836, VT; parents: Margaret H. King and Jonas Varnum 
     Abbott; stepfather: Cephas Clark; employed 1852-1854: Lowell, Massachusetts.
  3Parents – Margaret and Cephas Clark, Glover, VT.
  4Lowell, Massachusetts.
  5Sister – Dorothy “Dolly” M. Abbott b: 1841, Glover, VT; parents: 
     Margaret H. King and Jonas Varnum Abbott; stepfather: Cephas Clark.
  6Glover, Vermont.}
 
 
 
 
From, Jonas Abbott to Mr. and Mrs. Clark
                        and dearest sister
[written along the left hand side]

Dolly I want to see you more than hen
Can you tell I send my best love to you

                        Jonas Abbott Jonas Abbott