Letter from Alexander Badlam, 25 January 1853
San Francisco
Bro Woodruff
Dear Friend
Agreeable
to promise I write to inform you
of my Safe arrival once more to
California in company with my brethren
of the missions and truly it is
under quite different circumstances
from those of [18]49 so far as my reception
in this land is concerned I will Mer^e^ly
Say my family were all glad to see me
yet I went to their Portico in a boat
as Sacramento was under water and
had but a short time previous been
laid almost entirly in ashes by fire
and but few have escaped the dwellings
of my family are spared but the whole
buisness port is gone or nearly so
I have come down to San Francisco
to assist off the Elders and the
Means are now Raised through
Bro John M Horner and others
and some from the world to the
amount of nearly seven thousand
dollars in all
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