Respected Farther & Mother & Sister⁵
I pen A few lines to let
you know that I am the
Same I have not gone to
work yet but have had
one or to Chances but they
did not suit me So I 
expect to go to work this
week Some time butter sells, 23
Pork from 8 to 9 at retail from 9
to 11, Aples 1.50 per bushel

Write if they heard from Caleb
Since I Came down here & A bout
thanksgiving we had thanksgiving last
Thursday & had a good time I read
in the papers that they would not
have any thanksgiving because A loco Goviner
            good by dolly

  ^{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, Glover, 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, VT, parents: Margaret H. 
     King and Jonas Varnum Abbott; stepfather: Cephas Clark.}
  
   
  
   
[written sideways on the page]

how do you like your school
diner is most ready

I will write more next time 
by
write As Soon As you 
get this from your

           Friend
           Varnum Abbott

20.70
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72.35       70.00
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67.51  Mr. & Mrs Cephas Clark
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[written along the left side of page]

Dolly Write how you get
A long & how you do