Letter from Horace Hall Cummings, 30 August 1887
Mexico,
Pres. Wilford Woodruff,
Salt Lake City, Utah.
Dear Brother:
Your letter of the 20th inst. requesting
me to send some tracts & pamphlets, to Bro Ammon
M. Tenney, came to hand day before yesterday, and
today I mail him five packages containing some
of all the kinds you named, though in three cases
I was unable to send him the required number,
having only a few on hand. I also send him
some which you did not mention, including some
Spanish Testaments which the Agent of the American
Bible Society gave me, thinking he could make
good use of them. When he has exhausted this
supply we can doubtless send him more, as
we shall have replenished one stock by that time I think
Affairs in the mission here are not very
bright just at present. The news that most of
the Mexican saints who went to the colony in
Chihuahua last May are returning dissatisfied,
makes their friends and relatives here feel some-
what discouraged, and doubtful, and a certain cold-
ness seems to have settled on most of our con-
gregations. One of the colonists has already arrived
here, and from what I can learn, is busy in spread-
