Pres Willford Woodruff Salt Lake City Utah Dear Brother In my call as a missionery to the Southern States it stated that I should be in Salt Lake on June 7. As my means is some what limited I would rather start from here and meet the company of Elders in Pueblo I have talked with Elder John Morgan and this was thaught best I remain your Bother in the Gospel Nichlos Niller All right. J. F. S.

To President Woodruff. The Tabernacle Salt Lake City U. S. A. Reverend Sir As a stranger I must apologise for taking the liberty of addressing you but I am deputed by the to write this letter on behalf of the wife and children of Brother Goalen a member and Elder of the Church of Latter Day Saints, as it has been found impossible by his silence from gleaning any intelligence from him. Brother Goalen left London last May (1891) leaving behind his wife and 5 little children (all under 12) including an infant of 5 months old. Prior to his departure (which he had arranged and carried out very quickly) he faithfully promised that he would send home regular weekly remittances so to maintain his wife and family. This pledge he also gave me and he promised me on the word of a Christian that he would redeem this pledge. For some time he sent home monies, which I can vouch myself were faithfully expended in purchasing food &c for the family. About the fall of last year these remittances gradually fell away likewise letters. The wife finding herself in this position had to seak what scant labor she could, her own trade as an army accoutrament maker having fallen off. The worry of this and seeing her home gradually having to be sold to meet her rent soon told upon her, and, as I feared, has now so undermined her health, as to utterly prostrate her and incapascitate her from again following (for a long time at least) any employment, consequently the family are now starving. The last remnant of furniture that would realise any cash was very reluctantly sold to a dealer, viz a piano which fetched only 8 pounds. With care this sum was laid out to pay rent, furing and food for 17 weeks through the late bitter winter. Mrs Goalen finding she can get no response to her letters and the situation being a painful one has compelled her to ask me to appeal to you on her behalf believing that you will as a Christian gentleman try and bring the errant husband to the knowledge of the grave position of those he has so cruelly deserted in this great city. I now on their behalf ask you Sir to immediately use your best endeavors to compell Brother Goalen to communicate with his family and to do that which he has an undoubted right to do I as their advocate shall indeed be pleased to know that your kind efforts have borne good fruit and that I as the humble writer of this epistle have only done my duty. I might add that any plea made by Brother Goalen leaving them a good home is no set off to his silence. The wages of "Smith's" in your city are well known here and he told his wife that he could easily earn £5 a week, half of which sum he would send her. The only stray news the wife has gleaned in 6 months was in a letter sent to a relative wherein it was stated he had gone South. The facts I have stated are literally true and now

Salt Lake City, Utah, . Presidents Wilford Woodruff, Geo. Q. Cannon and Joseph F. Smith. Dear Brethren! Having spent now already upwards of one year traveling among the Saints in the different Stakes of Zion in the interest of Church history, since receiving my special appointment in April, 1891, I feel impressed to present you with a brief summary of my labors: During the past twelve or thirteen months—from April 22, 1891, to May 16, 1892—I have visited every settlement and branch of the Church in eleven Stakes of Zion, namely the Box Elder, Sevier, Panquitch, Summit, Morgan Bear Lake, Cache, Kanab, St. George, Parowan and Beaver Stakes, which together embrace 177 organized wards and branches.

President Wilford Woodruff: Dear Brother: I very much desire to own a good violin, say a $25.00 violin, with good bow, box, key, + resin. In review of my past services in a more or less public capacity, I thought it not unjust to ask this of you as a friendly favor, and the same to be considered by you favorably or unfavorably, at your discretion. If Yes, I would like a reply on the subject. My object is to cultivate classic + Minor Music of a tolerably high order; a violin fresh out of the store is preferabler Yours very truly, Abinidi Pratt.