Letter from Asahel Hart Woodruff, 13 January 1887
SALT LAKE CITY,
Dear Father;
I wandt to pen you a few lines
in explenation of the position in which Ida
and I are placed at the present time and ask
your opinion on the situation which to me
is a vexatious one. In the first place then when
they ^(Her Parents)^ discauverd that we had renewed our old
places in each others affections, they were strongly
opposed to it and made it decidedly unpleasant
for Ida: but finding that opposition only intensified
instead of lesening our affections, they gradualy
grew mor reconciled untill now they have
nothing much to say about it. One day recently
in conversation with her Son Henry: Mrs Quayle
went so far as to say that she did not know
but what the change was for the best after all:
this was quite a concession for her to make. The
first time I had any talk with Ida and before
she brake of[f] with Oscar, I gave her to understand
that I should expect her to be baptized to which
