Respected Farther & Mother & Sister⁵
I once more inform you of our health
which is First rate. & I trust that these
few lines will find you enjoying the same
blessing it is pleasant here to day
& presume it is a good sap day in
Glover.⁶ I wish I was there helping you 
make shugar but I can do better here
than up there.  one of these days I am
A coming up & buy me A. Woman &
then hunt me up A, farm & selle down
George King & his wife is down here & Nancy Christie
& Abigail Day & Jerusha Barker
George has gone on the watch here & Martha
in the weaving room.  Jonas⁷ has left
the Watch & gone to work on the carpet

Much Obliged For those Greetings thas nancy brought
you Wanted that I should get some silk  When
I come up I think that it will cost as much
here as it will up ther  I do not know what
kind you want

  ^{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.
  2Varnum Abbott b: 1834, 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: 1840, Glover, VT; parents: Margaret H. 
    King and Jonas Varnum Abbott; stepfather: Cephas Clark.
  6Glover, Vermont.
  7Brother – Jonas Abbott b: 1848, Glover, VT; parents: Margaret H. King and 
    Jonas Varnum Abbott; stepfather: Cephas Clark; employed 1852-1854: Lowell, MA.}
 
 
 
 
I cant tell when I shall come home
I should like to go to Australia Where
the gold is found in Abundance
           Varnum Abbott

Direct your letters to 65 Worthen St.

I shall ben glad to Caried on your shugar
Place this spring but couldn’t leave here
The last three months I made 65 Dollars
Besides my board that is more than I 
can make up there on A farm.

Write soon  Yours With respect

            Cephas & Margaret Clark     V. Abbott

            excuse all mistakes
 

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Remember

Dolly I was glad to see some of your writing  I write this
page to you  Write again I heard that you
was to work to siases be A good girl & keep your nose
Clean.

Worthen St  68