Letter from Abraham Owen Smoot, 9 October 1848
Dear Br & Sister Woodruff
with pleasure I set me down this morning in
great hast to address you a few lines from
which Leaves us all in good health Except myself
I have had a short addttacts of the mountion fevar
cussed by exposier on my Journey to sweet water
& back where I met the companies the 26 day of Sept ^August^
I was also much Exposed to cold in the Salt Lake
Since my returne. Mrs Smoots gener^a^l health
is much the same it was in winter quarters
Father Woodruffs health is some better at this
time than it has been since he has been in the valy
Yet he feels dizcuraged in meny things & often
wishes himself back to the East where he could
have some comforts the remander of his days
BJames Bevin who you Left in charge of your
Buness has actterd Eevery thing but the part of
a Gentleman with the old man. The wolves Eat
the mans corn Last winter by neglect of hurding her
regular which I was unable to have attended to myself
haveing a house to build & other buness that I was
a blessed to attend to. Your oter Bevin had two good
Cows in his charge that he took out on the farme
& milked & Left the father Woodruff perfectly destitute
of milk & Butter only as Iwe furnished him
