Lowell June 22 1832

My Dear Son.
    
   I received your wednesday noon, very
happy to hear from you, I sent your trunck filled with
such things as  I thought would be most  nessary or as you
requested, write soon after receiving, this, Mr Brewster and wife
and son came here Wednesday morning, & expect  to be in Boston Monday next
I shall write you by them, before I began to write I expected
my letters, I have been very lonesome since you left but be
assured I shall bear you in mind with the greiveated love and
affection, May you so order your life and character as may
be a wishing happiness to the decling years of your affectionate

Mother Gilman