Letter from John Benbow, 20 March 1850
Dear Sir
After A long silence which has been pain
full to me with Pleasure I take this opportunity to
inform you that after A Journey of near four months
we by the Blessing of God arived in the Salt Lake val
ley with onley one Death and some few Broken Bones
but the latter are all well I found your Father very
Sick and sum what without the comfourts of life
but I dealt to him the things you sent in Wisdom
and he is Wonderfully recovered [word scratched out] also is very
Sicck but of late much improved but not able to
walk [5 words scratched out] and have been
with Brother Young for council and [word scratched out] said he
advise [11 words scratched out]
but my opinion is that [word scratched out] will not let a good
chance slip. I am sorry to find thare has been
considerable influence use against you and sister
Woodruff on the part of [word scratched out] Brother and sister
Smoot feels to complain of you not writeing to them
and refuseing them one of your houses and ^I^ think
Brother Taylor is great in their estimation and
they seems but little interested in your Afairs
I am glad to say that all your cattle intrused to me
are alive and well except the Brin ox which
died after travelling seven Hundread miles his
mate I conclued to sell and use the means to the best
advantage of your family. Fathers crop was ^like^ many
