Letter to Stephen Markham, 6 May 1856
G. S. L. City, .
Bror Stephen Markham,
Historian George A Smith expected you would
have called at this office as you passed through the city; but
as you did not. I should feel obliged by your sitting down
with Bror Wm M Thompson, and draw^ing^ out the entire history
of Joseph's going over the river to Iowa, the cause of his return
from Iowa, thyour journey with him to Carthage, what transpired
while there both in and out of prison, and under what circumstances
you left Carthage. Also how the news of Joseph's death reached
Nauvoo, and all the other circumstances within your Knowledge
relating to the affair; sending me these particulars by the
very first consequence, as I wish to almalgamate it with what
we have already on hand. and I am just at that period
of the history.
Yrs truly,
Wilford Woodruff Historian
by Thomas Bullock -Clerk-
