Letter from Phebe Whittemore Carter Woodruff, Phebe Amelia Woodruff Snow, Susan Cornelia Woodruff Scholes, and Emma Smith Woodruff, 1 May 1852
Greate Salt Lake
Dear Willford
Haveing an opportunity to send you a line
by the mail I thought you might like to hear from the corner
lot opposite the tabernacle as you have been some acquainted there.
The eastern Mail came in yesterday also the Sanpete mail I
went to the office and found 3 letters 1 droped 1 from Eng. & 1 from
Ilus saying that your last letter had been received they were all
well and that he had concluded to come to Utah intended leave-
ing Independence the first of May with the mail or some small
company comeing direct through after haveing visited Kanesvill
and learned how br. Hyde prospered with those goods in his care
he will take no goods through this season our friends are all well
in the east. Brother Smoot was in St. Louis the first of April
having been sent from Eng. with between 5 & 6000 dolls. of the emi
grating funds and 200 of the poor with him also 5 hun. of other
Eng. emigrants comeing through this season, it is rumored that
9000 emigrant will be in here this season the more particulars
of which you will probably learn from other letters as there is a speci-
al mail to be sent to you as a company. Things are much as they
were when you left. We have helped father what we could about plant
ing what we could but the weather has been so cold and stormy
that it has not been suitable to plant much of the time since you
left, we have finished the lot at the store and the most of the 2 lots
at home but done nothing on the lot in the big field. The pig has
not even come yet nor any of paid any money I cannot find those
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Please accept my love Willford
P.
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