Letter from Joseph Russell, 20 February 1850
Miramichi
President W. Wilfoodd Woodruff
Bloved Brother
your very acptable letter
came Duly to hand of Date 9th February withe its
place of Intelagence of the Right Kind which
I am Ever Indeted to you for to geather with
the Guardian of Date^s^ 26th No 24 in
Brother Woodruff. [Most] take it for granted
that I Can only Render him a Recompence
of Reward, by a ^illegible^ Rendering my waramest and
Greatfull thanks for all the past favors
and kind atintion togather with Every Informa[tion]
that ^I^ Could desire. it is quite an Excitment
to us and Revives and a Spirits and Enables
^us^ to Rejoice in hope. when I write to you I feel
as if I weare some thing Gelty becas I have
no Intelingence to give you. but I know
that you know the lockalits [localites] of this Dark
Sect and [Corners/leaders/learned] of the Sectteareons [sectarians] pregdizd [illegible]
I think that it be will be a Desired Day
when I will have my Back towards it
yet this ^is^ [Defadty] Induring up after [Defadty]
that was now [preserved/foresawed] Before, yet not able
to prevent the Designes of and purposess of
my havenly Father. this is no Dute [doubt] but
I well have to leve some of my [illegible] old busness
behind for some one to do
