Letter to Joseph Fielding Smith, 30 December 1886
Salt Lake City, Utah,
Joseph F. Spiteght
Beloved Brother
I seat myself in my
lonely chamber while all nature is wraped in sleep
to commune with you a short time. Your vary
interesting Letter of Dec 3 has just reached me,
and in reply will confess that I did not know
that I was making you so much trouble to read my
writing, and I have concloded to answer yor letter
in my Journal hand And if you and Susie can
read in the first reader I think you can make it
out for you have read many pages in my Journals in
former days. But to business I am vary sorry
to learn of your sickness (or more properly speaking
I am sorry that you are sick) You have generly been
a vary healthy man, and to have such a severe attack
endangers your life, but I hope and pray that you
may speedily regain your health. And concerning myself
will say I am in the Enjoyment of vary good health cons-
idering my age, in about 8 weeks the 1 March shall reach
my 80th year I have an occasional attack of the kidney
