Letter from Wilford Woodruff Jr., 31 December 1855
G S L City
Dear Father
As I have been prevented from writting to you by
the soreness of my eyes Improve the first operunity of answering
your kind letters I have ruined a number of very good letters
in wich you have given me verry good council I think much of it and I hope I
shall practice it my eyes have been verry sore but they are geting better and
Mother says I ought not to study much untill my eyes get
well I read write cypher spell and study geography and gramar Mrs
kimball sends her respects to you I hope I am progressing in all of my studies
Mother has comenced an evening school of two and half hours each evening
wich wee devot to cippering. Brother Smoot said he heard that the
Snow was tow feet deep in rush valey we have not heard
from the cattle since yo left. neather has Brother Kelsey sent
the sadle home but he has been once an I asked him about it and
he said he would send it the first opoportunity. the weather is very
cold at presant there is more snow than last winter I am glad to
hear that you have a share in the heard ing ground of
rush valley This is the first leter I ever wrote and I
hope you will excuse all mistakes
From your dutiful son
Wilford Woodruff Jr
