Letter to Mary Ann Jackson Woodruff Ross, 30 December 1853
Great Salt Lake City
Miss Mary A. Jackson
Madam
I have received your
Note. And in reply woold say. I am ^under^ no obligation to grant
evry request you make of me. at the time you signed
the Bill I made you no promise what amount I would do for
you but I shall use my own judgment in this matter. I made
no agreement to remove Sarah from that house But the revers
that I should not get you a separate house & fire This winter
I never had any ^credit^ from you for any thing that I have ever done
for you neither do I expected it from you, & the more I do
for you the more ungrateful you are, & the wors you act, which
is a poor incouragement to bestow favors upon any one
your constant Ill treatment to Sarah is vary unbecoming in
you and you will not Gain any favors with me by continueing
in it. She has as Good a right in that house as you have
& you are ownly injouring yourself by continuing your ill
treatment to her.
A Concerning your threat of complaining of me to
President Young I would say that does not alarm me
For he is better qualifyed to Judge both man & woman and
their spirits than either of us
As Ever I Remain
W. Woodruff
I sent Broad cloth en[ou]gh to make James two coats & one pair
of pants then I sent anothe pair of pants which was cut out
for wilford but were to small for him this will do for James a
pairs of Evry day pants I also sent 2 yards of fine cloth for him
a cloak I lea[rn]d that you had taken the thick cloth which
I sent for his cloth[e]s to make his cloak & had taken his cloak cloth
to line it with this is poor reasoning to line a cloak with cloth
that cost $3 when cloth that will cost 35 cts will do as well ^is ju[s]t as good^
I se[n]t you all the woollen flanel I Hade & 6 yrds of cotton flanel to make
out what you asked for. As to groceries I dont know of a [pound] to be bo[u[ght in this city
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