Letter from Mary Elizabeth Rollins Lightner, 7 October 1887
President Woodruff
Dear Sir,
I take the Liberty of addressing
you upon a matter of vital
importance to me. I find
after being a member of this
Church fifty seven years this
month; that I am under the
necessity of asking assistance
from the Church for my future
support, I ask this favor of you
in confidence, the more so; because
I have been promised repeatedly
by Brother Joseph, and Brigham
Young, who; the last time but one
that he was south; sent for me,
and told me, that he had bought
a house in the city for me, and
that hereafter my family, should
be provided for, that I, had suffered
