Letter from John E. Steele, 19 July 1896
Panguitch, Utah,
President Wilford Woodruf, Salt Lake City
Dear Brother, I received your
letter of July 6 calling me on a mision to
Indian Territory, and can say that I feel
highly honored by such a call. However in
accepting such a labor, I shall be compelled
to do so under great financial embarrassments,
as I have been attending school for two years,
and am under obligations for the means thus spent.
This together with a homestead entry that
lacks two years of being completed and the
raising of the means where with to secure some
school land that will soon be in market make
the acceptance doubly hard.
Now Dear Brother if you think it wise
fore me to abandon the land and go under
these circumstances, I am at your command.
If not, as soon as the land is secured I
shall be pleased to accept any labor that
you may require. I should like to know your
wishes in this matter as soon as practicable.
Your Brother John E. Steele
Let him be released till
his homestead is secured. J. F. S.
