[Lowell]³ Oct ? 1853

Dear Mother

     having at last concluded to write a few lines to let you know where I am and what I 
am doing I am to work in a harness shop which is very easy indeed   I have a very good 
boarding place They seem to be very good folks  they atend family prayers every morning 
which makes me think of home   I should not left the mill but there was a girle here and she 
said she would get me a chance in the shop and I spike to Amy⁴ about it but she did not say 
much about it and finley I left on my own hook and then she declaired right up and down that 
I should not go one step and you know that I wont be drove by any one so I went and have 
not seen her since

[----] so you must excuse me for now

                                               from your daughter Arvilla
                                               direct your letters to No 1 Chestnut street

                                               that whle the lamp holds on to burn the --tist

[on cover]
Polly Galusha
Berkshire, VT
 

  ^{1Avrilla Galusha
  2Mother – Polly Larabee b: 4 Feb 1797, Weathersfield, VT d: 8 Dec 1874, VT; married 1825: 
    William Galusha b: 1796, VT; occupation: minister.
  3Lowell, Massachusetts.
  4Sister – Amy Melenda Galusha b: 16 Apr 1825, Berkshire, VT d: 9 Oct 1869, Berkshire, VT.}