Letter to Aphek and Azubah Hart Woodruff, 22 July 1845
Dear Father & Mother
I have for many months
had a great desire to hear from you to know
how you was getting along temporally & spiritually.
I have written you some letters & forwarded
some papers from time to time since I have been
in England but as yet have received no answer
but a little more than a month since I received
a long interesting letter for Cousin Bitsey stating
containing an Extract of a letter from Mother
& also from Eunice which gave us some information
concerning you & also from Dwight & Eunice & sumthing
from Azmons Family all of which I was glad to get
as it gave me information from Mary & conveyed
an idea to me that you was still at work in the Mill
I did not know how you would come out about that
as I had not heard from you since I left New York &
knowing that Father was getting into years I felt anxious
about it I wrote Bitsey a very long letter in return
which I would be glad if you could see, as I expressed
myself concerning my feelings concerning my parents my relatio-
nship towards you both for time & Eternity & give a^n^ journal
account of my travels & affairs in this country more
largely then I shall be able to do at this time.
