Letter from Almon Whiting Babbitt, 21 February 1849
Washington
Elder W. WoodRuff
Dear sir
as I am about to leave this city for
Home I wish to inform you that I
have compleeted the arraingemet for
a mail rout from Kane P. O. to the
Grate Salt Lake & have taken the cont[r]act
to carry It through six times this year
you can inform the Saints in the East
that they can corospond with ther friends
at the Salt Lake the same as any othe[r]
part of the U[nited]. State[s] if they send by the
way of CoKanesville Pottawatmie county
state of Iowa I wish you would
communicate the fact to Br Orson
Pratt in England I do not know
his address or I would do so they
can communicate with their friends
the same as any other part of the U. S.
I think that no important measure
will pass the present session of
congress in relation to a goverment
in California
I Remain as Ever your
friend & Br
A. W. Babbitt
W Woodruff
