Letter to Mary Catherine Lloyd Woodruff, 9 January 1888
Salt Lake U. T.
Miss Mary Woodruff
My Dear Grand Daughter
I write to say that I received your interesting
Letter of Jan 5 And in reply will say
that I am almost 81 year of age, and I
have from 10 to 50 Letters a day upon
Church business to get through with
read & answer. The Daily Church business
that rests upon me requires from 3 to 5
Men a day to transact it. And this
puts it out of my power to comply
with your request, which I would
be glad to do if I could Therefore please
Excuse me from attempting it. I am
vary much pleased with your writing
and think you are doing vary
well indeed. I want you to get all
the Education you can for it is of far
more benefit than wealth
