Letter from John Christofferson, 7 December 1890
Richmond
Pres Wilford Woodruff
Dear Brother in answer
to your letter to me dated Nov 26th by
George Reynolds in regard to my
filling a mission to Scandinavia,
do here answer and give my circum-
stances. I came out of penetentiary last
Feburuary where I had been imprison-
ed for three months for conscience sake,
and being in ^poor^ circumstances when I
was sen sentenced the imprisonment
made matters all ^the^ worse for me fi-
nancially, and with a family of eleven
8 of which are under fourteen years
of age, I have ^been^ laboring hard with my
hands alone as a carpenter, to make
them comfortable during the comeing
winter. I have but a house and lot in
town, no farm or any property I can sell
