Letter from Martin Amasa Aldrich, 28 February 1894
Prest. Wilford Woodruff
Salt Lake City
Dear Bro: Yours of
the 24th inst lies before me, notifying me of a
call to the Australasian, (New Zealand) mission.
Now I desire to ^submit^ you the following facts, upon
which you are left to use your own judgment
as to whether I shall go or not at the present.
1st In the year 1892 I built a home, from
which I am not yet free from debt; besides
I am obligated to the stores for things necessary
to live upon.
2nd Unfortunately I am included among those,
the directors of the Mt. Pleasant Eq. Coop, now assigned,
in the following tangled up business. When the new
incorportion of the assigned institution was affected
in 1891 I was made Sec'y and Treasurer. The directors
had occasion to borrow five thousand dollars and
gave in security a mortgage upon the Real estate, and
in addition, signed the note personally. When the
