Letter from Sullivan C. Richardson, 17 October 1893
Colony Diaz Mex.
Presd't W Woodruff
Dear Brother
There is a question I have long desired to
ask and the only reason I have not, is,
that I did'nt like to intrude upon
your time. I came to Mexico with
the first big outfit, beca^u^se the word
came to us from Pres'dt. Taylor almost
as a call. I have staid because I have
thought there was a great work in this
land for us, and have tried to qualify
myself for that work
Now
there seems to be a feeling among some
of the leaders different from that expressed
by those who have visited us here and who
have always talked of this more as a
mission than otherwise.
From the
advices of late the greater part of the
