Dear brother I will write a
few lines to let you know 
how I get along first rate my health 
is first rate and hope these few
lines will find you the same
father & mother⁵ the same and
Dolly⁶ to and the wrest of the 
folks give my love to them all
I haint much time to write I 
want you should come back Saturday
for the boss up to the shop
wants me now he sent word
that that he wood wait the
wrest of this week I must go
in next monday whether you 
come come back or not I am sory
to hury you back but I don’t 
want to lose my chance I am
in a hury and cant write 
much
           yours Jonas Abbott 
           to Varnum Abbott 

           Glover⁷

  ^{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, Glover, VT; parents: Margaret H. King and Jonas 
    Varnum Abbott; stepfather: Cephas Clark; employed 1852-1854: Lowell, 
     Massachusetts.
  3Brother – Varnum Abbott b: 1834, VT; parents: Margaret H. King and Jonas 
    Varnum Abbott; stepfather: Cephas Clark; employed 1852-1854: Lowell, 
    Massachusetts.
  4Lowell, Massachusetts.
  5Parents – Margaret and Cephas Clark, Glover, VT.
  6Sister – Dorothy “Dolly” M. Abbott b: 1840, Glover, VT; parents: Margaret H. 
    King and Jonas Varnum Abbott; stepfather: Cephas Clark.
  7Glover, Vermont.}