Letter to Lucy Emily Woodruff, 10 March 1887
Salt Lake City, Utah,
My Dear Lucy
I received your vary well
written and interesting Letter of March 1
And I read it with much interest
As far as my writing is concerned
I do not pretend to write well although
all persons should But I write from 2 to
14 Letters a day and all I pretend to do is
to try to make my Hieroglyphics so they can
be translated this is the 9 Letter I have
written to day and it is not a vary good day
for writing Letters with me to day for I rode
20 miles in a Buggy & 8 Miles Horsback over
the steepest, ragedest & most rocky road yesterday
that I Ever attempted to travel over and I
am vary sore & stiff to day I went to
see a cold water spring in the Mountains
of Arizona in such a rough country that
snakes Wild beast & Marshals would have to
take a pilot to find it at Least Marshals
would I though it might be a good place
to rest in Hot Weather wher the streams
in the Low lands would not be healthy to drink
I am in good health and spirits or I should
not have taken such a ride as I did
