Letter to Emma Smith Woodruff, 7 June 1877
St George Temple
Dear Emma
I Received the letters of Nellie
and Asahels of May 28, also your
Note I read over your Note near
ten times before I could understand
it. I did not know that it was the
outside of an envelope that I had sent
to you. I thought for some time you
had written it yourself but It
finelly flashed into my mind that I
had said to you that I done my
own composition and my own writing
this is correct with the exception of
while writing at the Desk with several of
the clerks I sometimes hand one of
my envelopes to McAllister on some
on of the Brethren to direct a letter as
I dictate it, and Brother McAllister
wrote the Address on the envellope that
you sent back to me I did not
suppose that any body could take any
