Scarborough Respected friend, I set down to inform ^you^ of our hea[l]th and enjoyments that we possess through the mercyes of God. My wife was taken unwell about a fortnit agoe but has got quite comfortable now all the rest of our friends in this quarter are as well as usial I must jest say (although you will hear before this Reaches you) that one of your best friends is with us and is well she and her little boy ^and^ have got pritty well rested after their long jorney Phebe is now seting at the same table writeing to her Sister Kimbal at Commerce we shoul be very glad if you were here to join us but must wate contented for you arrival in the spring as your letter received a few days a goe informed us, now Phebe is here we may rest assuredly of seeing you when you return to this country in the spring Phebe rote to you when she was in New York so that I need not say any thing in regard to Joseph F, Carter and Luther Scammans journey on where Phebe was as I suppose she gave you all the particulars in her letter from New York and as I under stand two or three wants to write some in this letter I must draw to a close by Mrs Carters with my self presenting you with our best respects–Ezra Carter [Letter from Ezra Carter ends] [Letter from Freedom Moulton begins] Being solicited by your wife I just take my pen to drop you a few lines—saying to you first—that my health is not very good—my lungs being somewhat affected by excessive talking in my business of school teaching which I shall have to drop—was much pleased to hear your letter, dated in July, read—wish much I could be with you in walks around England seeing the many curiosities—your deliniations of them were excellent, better than any I have read—glad to hear you and your bretheren are so little persecuted—your wife seems just as she formerly did—cheerful and resigned to every thing that befalls her—your boy looks finely good natured and quiet—my folks are all well—Grandmother which you saw when you were at fathers is dead, died with ^a^ cancer—she suffered much—been steadily engaged in teaching since I last saw you—intend closing in the spring—it has been somewhat sickly in this vicinity this fall and winter—many very sudden deaths—see many pieces in the New York and other papers about the doings of the Latter day Saints in England—have not had the Western fever much sirum I was on—was much pleased to see Phebe I can assure you— she has given me a history of ^the^ Mormon’s Work—have had a very favorable winter—very little severe weather—very little snow on the ground now—as I have already occupied more of this sheet than I ought I will bid you good bye—by wishing you health and prosperity Yours truly, Freedom Moulton [sideways text] We have had a severe political contest the last fall—the Whigs have beaten us by resorting to all manner of deception—such as you would not hardly credit—if told you—the North Eastern boundary remains the same [end of sideways text]