Letter to Clara Martisha Woodruff Beebe, 16 January 1887
Salt Lake City, Utah,
My Dear Clara,
Your Mother Received Letters Last
night from Asahel, you and Blanch & I got one
from Owen I heard them all Read. And I
must say I was pained Pained at the spirit of
your & Asahels Letters. I was in hopes that
you and Asahel would both be willing for
Ma to stop with me a few weeks Longer as the
war cloud and signs of the times would indicate
that it might be the last time I should have
this privilege of Ever Enjoying her society or
those of my children again in this Life, for when
the Bill that passed the House became a Law it
will naterly drive me from the county or to prison
You and Asahel seemed to get along so well
up to the Holidays I was in hopes it would continue
untill the first of March. But as things now are
I will send for a half fare ticket and Let Ma go
home and I will try it alone again Ma has been a
great comfort to me since she has been with me
& I was in hopes she could have staid untill the
