Letter from Abraham Owen Smoot Jr., 19 March 1893
Provo City, Utah,
Pres. Wilford Woodruff
Salt Lake City,
Dear Brother;
I am directed by my father
to inform you as to the condition of his health.
For three days preceeding last evening he was improving
in health very satisfactorly, but while bathing last night
about 9 o'clock, in getting out of the bath-tub his feet
sliped from under him causing him to fall with full
weight upon the edge of the tub, causing a slight fracture
of two of his ribbs on the left side immediately over the heart,
from which he has suffered last night and today consid-
erable pain, though he is in as favorable a condition as
could be expected under the circumstances. We anticipate
no serious results from the accident and expect him to
be around again in a week or so if nothing unforseen
developes in the mean-time.
Trusting you are in your usual good health, with
regards from father and family I am
Your brother in the Gospel
A. O. Smoot Jr.
