Letter to Lot Smith, 12 April 1880
Salt Lake City, [page torn] .
Pres. Lot Smith,
Dear Brother,
I received your first letter after you
returned home. I was truly glad to hear from you, and that Jim.
had got well. I have been so overwhelmed since I got home, with
Conference meetings, councils, company day & night that I have hardly
had time to look a wife in the face. I have had no time to write
and have not now, only a few moments. I was appointed at the
Conference the Supt of the Young Men's M. I. Assns for the Terry. & Moses
Thatcher and Jos. F. Smith, Counselors. I went to Ogden on Saturday
to attend the Stake Conference of the Young Men.
I forwarded the Tithing Receipts for the money I brought
from Arizona. I sent back the Order of L. Hatch
as they could not change it. I sent them back to you.
I hope you got them. Half of Farmington and part of
Salt Lake County enquired about you. Your wife from
Farmington called upon me and wanted to know how
you get along. I told them well. The apostles seemed
to appreciate washat assistance you are rendering
to the needy who want bread. I wish also to say
in this connection that the mother of Joseph H. Wil-
kins of St John, she lives in Ogden. He is one of the car-
penters we took dinner with at St John. His mother has heard
that he had nothing to eat but black beans. She wanted to know
if she could not deposit 25 or 30 bus. of wheat in the Tithg office
