Letter from William J. Critchlow, 15 March 1892
Ogden, Utah, .
Prest Wilford Woodruff
Salt Lake City
Dear Brother:
My brother Jno. Q. Critchlow, recently
received a letter from your office asking him to
take a mission to which he replied stating his
willingness to go but in doing so he gave no
consideration to his temporal circumstances, and
being familiar with them I take the liberty
of addressing you a line or two concerning the
matter which I trust is not improper
My brother finds himself at present financially
strapped so to speak without even a dollar to
pay his passage, and my parents being poor
and scarcely able to meet their necessary circum-
-stances find themselves unable to render any
assistance unless they sacrifice a part of their home
to do so, and myself having just recently returned
from a mission to Europe, and also unable to
assist my brother for the last year or two has
had to assist and keeping our family, and
consequently has had no oppertunity of saving up
any money, his wages at any time not exceeding
