Letter from Asahel Hart Woodruff, 8 September 1885
Pimlico London
Dear Father
I am now seated in the London office
in company with Bros Albert Jones, James Nye of Paris Barlake
and James Paxman also Bro Bleake of St George who
says that he left his home last spring, but only arrived
in England last week, where he has ben in the meantime
I do not know. Bro Penrose will be here shortly, he and
I spent yeasterday afternoon at a Bro. Crasses living at Mt
Pleasant Grays Inn Road, Clerkenwell, his health is good and
he intends visiting Manchester next Sunday and the
following week in company with D H Wells he goes to
Denmark to insite the Scandinavian branches. I wrot you
you a few days ago but having received your letter
[inserted later] ^of Aug 16.^ since mailing that I now avail myself of this opportunity
of transmitting an early reply to the same Dear Father you
can not imagine what a world of good that letter has
done me, and I feel much better in boddy as well as in mind
than heretofore and am grateful indeed to you for the
excelent advise contained therein, it whispered peace to me, and
caused my heart to bound with joy to receive sutch lines
of encouragment. The reason for my signing myself your
unworthy son was because I felt self condemed for not
having had more determination than to give way to sutch
gloomy feelings and be found complaining of my lot, no matter
how hard and unpleasant, when I thought of how nobely
you had carved your way through the obsticles suet in
