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                                                                                                                                        Bangor Wed, eve. 27th

Dear Folks!

                   I received your letter, to night by Mr. Coutts, very gladly. You do not say whether you rec; the bundle, concern that I sent last week by Russel Kittredge.
  The trunk came safe to hand, Friday, I believe it was although I did not see the one who brought it down. You sent down some dirty dickeys, I believe. It cost money here, washing, does. I lost the Bosom, I brought with me, took it off and put it in my pocket when I went to work, and somehow lost it out, I suppose, into the water.

I have just been up to see Ann, and got a letter she had written, and the money from Boston which has arrived at last, 70 Dollars, Herewith enclosed, 13 Bank of Bangor Bills, V.X.

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 You worry yourselves unnecessarily about me and my work, I guess. Mother thinks I am where I dont belong, I just begin to feel at home. It seemed a little odd at first, but come to get a little acquainted with the business and the folks it is considerably pleasant.

Mr. Eldridge or Aldridge, the Foreman, or Boss, or Old Man, is a very fine man indeed, I think, Very pleasant and so forth, but, straight as an H, as the men say. He belongs over in Brewer, is a Temperance man and a Pious man. Cutler is a kind of a Sub, to him no control over the business and no responsibility. It is a Company concern, all the log owners on the Stream, Principally, Kimball and Sheldon, agents of a great N.E.? Co. and Cushings of Frankfort, Dinsmore's, Billington's, and every body else. Each drives his own logs to our Boom, up in Drummond Mill pond, just above the city, where the Co. through their agent, Aldridge, takes them, turn them over, as we want them, drive them down through the 3 bridges [upside down] This is OUR work