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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 Joseph Meakam has just come in and wishes to be remembered to he has got better of his
lameness. yesterday I had the satisfaction of hearing from you by receiveing a letter from you–the breth
ren and sisters many of them ask what are the newswhat are the news. I suppose that it will be read
to day in meeting as they have carried it acrost the river to day. brother Joseph says that he will have
4 houses built in Commerc one for sister Taylor YoungPratt & Woodruff–their families are well
Brother Hyde expects to start for [Eng]. as soon as this meeting is over
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Brother Hawly has just come in and wishes to be remembered
to you. will you not get your son a pair of shoes. I often kiss him and Sarah for you wish you had the privilege of doing it yourself. So I must
bid you good night and undress the babe as it is growing late.
Brother Ames has [illegible] sent for me to go and satay with them
untill you return
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[Wilford Woodruff] Phebe. W. Woodruff Montrose
April 1st 1840
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 go [illegible] 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 Joseph Meakam has just come in and wishes to be remembered to he has got better of his
lameness. yesterday I had the satisfaction of hearing from you by receiveing a letter from you–the breth
ren and sisters many of them ask what are the newswhat are the news. I suppose that it will be read
to day in meeting as they have carried it acrost the river to day. brother Joseph says that he will have
4 houses built in Commerc one for sister Taylor YoungPratt & Woodruff–their families are well
Brother Hyde expects to start for Eng. as soon as this meeting is over
Brother Hawly has just come in and wishes to be remembered
to you. will you not get your son a pair of shoes. I often kiss him and
Sarah for you wish you had the privilege of doing it yourself. So I must
bid you good night and undress the babe as it is growing late.
Brother Ames has sent for me to go and stay with them
untill you return
"Letter from Phebe Whittemore Carter Woodruff, 1 April 1840," p. 4, The Wilford Woodruff Papers, accessed April 19, 2024, https://wilfordwoodruffpapers.org/p/Krwr