Very rare Piscatoquoagville manuscript postmark on this 1838 three-page poignant letter from Joseph Kidder to Mrs. Mark Fisk in Pembroke New Hampshire.  He writes in part: “Methinks good Mother that I hear you whisper when alone and reflecting upon the things which are numbered with past and can nevermore return ‘and Joseph has forgotten me too’. Is not this what you anticipated when I left Pembroke. Surely it was. But space, time and circumstance combined shall never cause the writer of these lines to forget that maternal care which watched over his infant hours. No, as long as life shall animate this form of mine, so long will I discharge the duties which devolve upon one as a faithful son.”

Joseph has a flair for writing and waxes poetic that this is his first letter to his mother because he has previously lived at home or nearby.  He talks of pleasant times with his brother John and that he is boarding with is schoolmaster from Derry, John Porter.  He mentions sufficient snow for sledding and a letter from his sister, Mary. Another sister, Susan, “wishes father to send her some money”. Wonderful reading and testimony of the time period.