Letter from John B. Fairbanks, 3 August 1896
Provo Utah
President Woodruff & Counsel
Dear Brethren
For a
long time I have been thinking
of writing to you for advice
but thinking you had enough
of your own and church matters
to attend to without being bothered
with mine I have hesitated to
write but at last however I have
concluded it is the best thing I
couldan do.
I have worked ^thought^ and prayed
I have wiggled and twisted (to
use a common expression) ^and^ I have
worried ^and^ stewed, about my affairs
to such an extent, at times that I
feared serious results. And all
