"Dear Mother": E. Holbrook's letter from Penn's Cove, 26 Jan 1854

A letter from Richard’s younger brother to their mother at Manomet, written in Richard’s log house at the head of Penn Cove in his second winter there, as the Washington Pioneer Project printed it in 1938 (“A Pioneer Writes to His Mother”). The original is at the Huntington Library. “I am stopping yet with Richard on this cove. That we are all well and have a plenty to eat and drink and have a good comfortable log house to live in.” Governor Stevens had come by the week before; “Richard has a good farm, all good soil, nearly all cleared land, and one side of it is on the cove, which is a large and beautiful harbor.”