Letter from Asahel Hart Woodruff, 10 April 1885
Dear Father
Your kind and welcome
letter of March 16th came down last evening
from London and I now take pleasure
in answering the same. Was very sorry
to learn of your illness and sincerely
hope and pray that you will soon recover
for it is bad enough for you to be away
from home even in the enjoyment of good
health. I think I have received all your
letters. I could tell by refeering to my
journal. I am sorry that my letter should
cause you any uneasiness an my account
and perhaps I spoke a little to plain in
following my impulse at the time of
writing it. But rest assured that I shall
not suffer much for any thing for my ^Pocket^
has never yet ben entirely empty and if
—as my letter would imply—I have at times
