And now Dear Sir permit me by way of conclusion to say that
since you have been at Washigton If I have not written much
to you, I have gone before the Lord & bowed my knees in earnest
prayer day by day and prayed for your success & prosperity in the glorious
cause ^in which^ your are engaged in, also for Dr. Bernhisel believing that you both [was] doing your best to exhert an influence if not with the same
individuals that it was all lending to the same cause & to produce
the same effects and I will furthermore say that I will ^not ownly^ continue to
pray for your success, But I feel to sustan you with evry feeling
& sentimnt of my heart evy way in my power in accomplishing the
object of your mission ^at^to Washington, and I will endeavor to do
the same for evey agent who goes forth for the benefit of Deseret
under the seal & sanction of her Cetizens. I will also say that I will
endeovor to be more punctual in answering any communitions
from you than I was in answring your last for I certanly
wish to correspond with you while I am in this Couty I
expet to leave Cambridgeprt about the 1st of April with as
ma[n]y as I can get to go with me to the Bluffs & Vally. I expet
Mess[r]s Hayward & Wooley will call upon you soon, please say to them
I receved their Lette & wish them to call upon me on their
arival in Boston. My address is the Corner of Harvad & Davis
stet Cambridgepot Mass.
With sentimts of respet
and Friendship I remain Yours Truly
Wilford Woodruff
A W Babbitt Esqr
Washingtn DC
And now Dear Sir permit me by way of conclusion to say that
since you have been at Washigton If I have not written much
to you, I have gone before the Lord & bowed my knees in earnest
prayer day by day and prayed for your success & prosperity in the glorious
cause in which your are engaged, also for Dr. Bernhisel believing that you both
was doing your best to exhert an influence if not with the same
individuals that it was all lending to the same cause & to produce
the same effects and I will furthermore say that I will not ownly continue to
pray for your success, But I feel to sustan you with evry feeling
& sentimnt of my heart evy way in my power in accomplishing the
object of your mission at Washington, and I will endeavor to do
the same for evey agent who goes forth for the benefit of Deseret
under the seal & sanction of her Cetizens. I will also say that I will
endeovor to be more punctual in answering any communitions
from you than I was in answring your last for I certanly
wish to correspond with you while I am in this Couty I
expet to leave Cambridgeprt about the 1st of April with as
many as I can get to go with me to the Bluffs & Vally. I expet
Messrs Hayward & Wooley will call upon you soon, please say to them
I receved their Lette & wish them to call upon me on their
arival in Boston. My address is the Corner of Harvad & Davis
stet Cambridgepot Mass.
With sentimts of respet
and Friendship I remain Yours Truly
"Letter to John Milton Bernhisel and Almon Whiting Babbitt, 5 December 1849," p. 3, The Wilford Woodruff Papers, accessed May 12, 2024, https://wilfordwoodruffpapers.org/p/lYn6