Letter from Quartus S. Sparks, 6 March 1852
San Francisco
Brother Woodruff! Dear Sir. It is with warm remem-
berance of the past acquaintance which I formed
with you upon Long Island N. Y. as well as
in the state of Mass. that I now address you.
Many and various are the sceens ^scenes^ through which
we have boath passed since (to me) those very
memorable periods, in which I held sweet
communion for short intervals with you. Yet I
have not forgotten you, nor the rich instructions
and blessings I recieved from your mouth.
Surfise it to say, the present moment finds
myseslf and family well, blessed with the "mam-
on of unrighteousness" and able and willing to
do all we can to assist as far as ourselves
and means will go to assist in the forwarding
of the holy cause in which we are ingaged.
As I know you are interrested in everything that
is going on abroad or at home connected with
the great prurposes of the Almi^gh^ty touching the
Gathering of Israel, I think that the following
statement, the substance of which I take from a
late English paper so will not be without
interrest to you, as also the Presidency of the
Church, and the saints in general.
The Viceroy of Egypt has sanctioned the proj-
ject of a railway from Alexandria by way of
Cairo, to the Isthmus of Suez, and the work
