Montrose Lee County April 1st 1840 Beloved Willford I have just sent a letter to the office for you but as another oppo[r]tunity offers itself I avail myselfe of the same in writing to you, thinking you would like to know how I and my little ones get along, today our little Willford is 10 days old and I have been out of doors, and sit up the most of the time and feal to render praise and thanksgiving to my heavenly father for all his loveing kindness to ...

answer – dont know but that she was offended with me for my plainness, but could not well help it, for I felt interested in her wellfare as we have been so intimately acquainted. I told you in my other letter that I had been liveing by the wayside as it were since you left me, I have moved 4 times since you, left home; that is something for one whose health was as feeble as mine. I moved from Montrose to brother Smoots, thence to my ...

family after haveing filled [his] [miss[ion thy love and fear which may God grant for Chris[ts] sake. It seames to be my turn now to write to you mostly now as this is the third letter I have written you since I received any from you. I feal verry anxious to hear from you to know how you prosper in that country–hope you will tell me all about it when you write. In my last letter to you I gave you an acc- ount of my sickness likewise somethings concerning ...

[sideways text] April 6th Conference commences here to day and I am now sitting at sister Taylors table writting I rode down here yesterday to go to meeting but the weather is dull and damp and I think it not wisdom to [illegible] go uoout to day. Willford is 2 weeks old to day and I feal quite smart. Commerce is building up verry fast, there was one thousand people came in yesterday some to attend the conference but the most of them to live there. brothe ...