Dear sister I write A few lines to you
hoping that they will find you in good
health & A going to school, Dolly rise
early in the morning & exercise your
anbition, up & take the morning air
up & hear the wild birds Sing
up & takes A little exercise
that you may have an Apetite for breakf

            I close by sending you my best wishes
            & I hope that you will do as well
            as you can & take Care of your self
            to Dorothy M Abbott from Varnum Abbott

Write soon & write all the news
Give my love to Abby.

            Good After noon
            Yours with respect

  ^{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.
  3Sister - Dorothy “Dolly” M. Abbott b: 1840, VT, parents: Margaret H. 
     King and Jonas Varnum Abbott; stepfather: Cephas Clark.
  4Lowell, Massachusetts.}