Letter to Joseph Fielding Smith, 27 April 1887
Salt Lake City, Utah,
President Joseph F Smith
Beloved Brother
Your vary
Kind interesting Letter of March 31 is before
me and I have read it with much interest
and I was vary glad to get it for not hearing
from you I did not know but I had offended
you in my joaking manner about reading
But as Porter says it was all wheat. I ment No
Evil I was truly thankful to learn that you
had got better I hope you will Enjoy good
health My health is still quite good at
present Like yourself I had a wife with me
3 months otherwise I live a Bachelors Life
I am mostly occupying a room on the ground
floor 12 foot square, 2 doors, 3 windows, carpet floor, walls
papered fireplace, plenty of wood good bed wire Matress,
sleep Well Enough to eat & wear, water rather poor
Plenty of kind friends, Lone town, 2 miles from
any other, plenty of Experienced Row a boat in a pond
ketch club fish. I read & write some of the time a doz
Letters in a day I had a family meeting on Sunday
whare I stay partook of the Sacrament ordained one Elder
1 Priest & 1 Teacher There was Fathers Mothers 5 sons &
2 daughters present At the close of the Meeting I rode to
