Kirtland Geauga County Ohio Nov 29^th 1836

Brother Asahel H. Woodruff

Dear Sir

As I have
just taken my pen from a sheet directed to our Distant
parents I thought pirhaps it would not be amiss to
address a few lines to you as I have never had any reason to
believe that you had lost that friendship or attachment towards
me that I formerly have been made the partaker of an opportunity
afforded. Notwithstanding years have rolled away between us since
we saw each other face to face yet my attachment towards you
or my desire for your wellfare either in temporal or spiritual things
hath not either lessoned or abated. It certainly is gratifying to
me to hear of the prosperity of my Brethren in evey lawful
pursuit Brother Asahel I have long felt anxious to again
hear from you I am sensible that it is not alltogether profitable to
be always pouring upon any ones mind any subject however good
it may be lest be be weary in consequence of which I have remained
more silent upon those subjects in which I have been ingaged than I
otherwise should have done. But thinking perhaps you would like to
Know whare I was how & what I was doing I concluded to call your
mind to the perusal of this sheet. I would here rema^r^k that after
our last conference in the south I spent a few days in visting the
Churches which God had rased up by my instrumentality in that country
I had a good season amo[n]g them I added 9 to their numbers &
took the parting hand I took water at Paducah K.Y. on the 25 ^th of
Oct after passing one boat that had sunk & run aground ourselv[es]
traveled 400 miles we reached Luisville I then went by land to Owenton,
& spent two weeks preaching & visiting some Kinsman of Elder
Snoots a travling Brother from Tenn^e who is with me we then went
to Cincinnati visited the big bone lick on the road the place whare
those large bones are taken that have been exhibited in Europe &
America. When I arived at Cincinnati My first business was
to inquire at the store of Webster & Conway for you they told
me you had located at Terrehaute Indianna & I was glad to learn
from them that the prospects for your prosperity was flattering

Kirtland Geauga County Ohio Nov 29th 1836

Brother Asahel H. Woodruff

Dear Sir

As I have just taken my pen from a sheet directed to our Distant parents I thought pirhaps it would not be amiss to address a few lines to you as I have never had any reason to believe that you had lost that friendship or attachment towards me that I formerly have been made the partaker of an opportunity afforded. Notwithstanding years have rolled away between us since we saw each other face to face yet my attachment towards you or my desire for your wellfare either in temporal or spiritual things hath not either lessoned or abated. It certainly is gratifying to me to hear of the prosperity of my Brethren in evey lawful pursuit Brother Asahel I have long felt anxious to again hear from you I am sensible that it is not alltogether profitable to be always pouring upon any ones mind any subject however good it may be lest be be weary in consequence of which I have remained more silent upon those subjects which I have been ingaged than I otherwise should have done. But thinking perhaps you would like to Know whare I was how & what I was doing I concluded to call your mind to the perusal of this sheet. I would here remark that after our last conference in the south I spent a few days in visting the Churches which God had rased up by my instrumentality in that country I had a good season among them I added 9 to their numbers & took the parting hand I took water at Paducah K.Y. on the 25 th of Oct after passing one boat that had sunk & run aground ourselves traveled 400 miles we reached Luisville I then went by land to Owenton, & spent two weeks preaching & visiting some Kinsman of Elder Snoots a travling Brother from Tenne who is with me we then went to Cincinnati visited the big bone lick on the road the place whare those large bones are taken that have been exhibited in Europe & America. When I arived at Cincinnati My first business was to inquire at the store of Webster & Conway for you they told me you had located at Terrehaute Indianna & I was glad to learn from them that the prospects for your prosperity was flattering