Letter from Joseph Lees Stott, 7 January 1895
Provo, Utah, .
First Presidency
Dear Brothers:
In answer to your letter of inquiry as
regards my feelings and circumstances
to go on a mission to the Southern States.
I greatly desire to do all that is required
of me but my circumstances are very unfa-
-verablye at present. I was married
a year and a half ago and started wright
in school without prepareing a home.
I am now able to raise only about half
the means necessary for a southern miss^i^onary
besides leaving wife and baby but little
to go on and nothing comming in. But it is
