Letter to Amasa Mason Lyman, 7 November 1860
Brother Amasa Lyman
Dear sir,
I feel like writing you a few lines, altho' I have no
special news to communicate. There has been a good deal of sickness in
October, and many deaths among children, one of brother C. C. Richs children
has died since he left. My daughter, Phebe, wife of Lorenzo Snow lost an infant,
it only lived two days, and as two of your women were sick, and had
young children, Phebe took Caroline's child to nurse, it was very feeble
when she took it, it is now a very healthy child and growing finely,
she has spent a good deal of time of late at your house to assist them
You are probably aware of the course President Young
has taken in regard to the Missionaries who are abroad, and those
going abroad, that they are forbidden to collect means of the Saints to
send home to their families, and also not to bring any thing home
themselves, only the Souls and Bodies of the poor Saints; and to obviate
this, a collection was taken up in this City to send the Missionaries to
their field of labor, and to keep their families. of I think some 12,00000 were
subscribed, and on the strength of this, I went to your family in the City
and got a list of what articles they said they wanted, and they have been
furnished since with the articles they called for, except the calking and
plastering of their house: I have not yet been able to get that done, but
have the promise of it.
We have had some of the loudest preaching of late from Pres.t Young
