Letter from Thomas Higgs, 16 February 1893
Manti City, Utah,
President Woodruff Dear Bro it is with Plesur that I adress
these few Lines to you when I came home I called at the office
twice to se you But you was ingaged in A metting in the
morning and when I came in the afternoon you had Jest
Steped in to your carige to go home and Bro Joseph Smith
Said i could write you A Letter and So i take this oppertunity
to Do So I feele Glad to get home Among my Brethern
and friends alltho I faunds [found] friends Down in the States yet
they ware not like my friends in theese Mountings [Mountains]
Well i found My Dear Old father in very good helth
and was glad to Se me and my wife he had not Seene
her for About Forty years But he new her as Soone as he
Saw her i had Seene him About twenty three years ago
the folks ware all glad to se us and treated us very Kindley
and we had A very nice time as far as that goes But things
ware not as they Should Be in regard to My fathers Property
Some of them ware trying to get it away from him But by the
help of the Lord I think I hav Bloked their game alltho
he as About Four thousand Dollars worth of Property
but it was in afarm and some city Lots and he could not
handel it and he had Scarcley anuf to him on and his
children their wold not help him But I think I have
