Letter to William and Rachel Thompson Atkin, 7 August 1887
Salt Lake City, Utah, Sunday
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Please keep the contents of this Letter in your own family
as I do not wish my doings made public
Any Communication for me
sent to John Jaques Box 321 Salt Lake City out side will
reach me inside L Allen
Dear Brother & Sister Atkin
I feel disposed
to Devote a few moments to write a few lines
to you for acquaintance sake if nothing more
of course you get the D News which gives
you an out line of what is going on
I thought I had written to you since I left
St George But in Looking over my Journal I dont
see it Well we Left St George with the two
baby colts they began to get Lame & sick
We stoped 24 Hours on fish creek to Let them
Rest and Doctor them which gave me time to
ketch 54 trout while there when we got
to Elsenore we Left both colts with Bishop
Sylvester who said He would take care of them
then we drove 40 miles to Warm Creek and
at 10 oclok as I was going to bed I Received
a telegraphic dispach saying president Taylor
was Dead I did not sleep much that night
Next day we drove 50 mile to Nephi I there
Met a Messenger from S. L. City who wished me
