Dear brother in christ i now take up my pen to right to you hoping to find
you in good health as it leaves me at pressent since you left us we boath ^have^ ad maney
Temtation and if we were to give way to them we soon ^shuld be^ over come i thing a great
Deal of wat you said to me while you where h^e^ar at maney times i feel temted almost
To give way the Lord has hether too brought ^us^ we still feiel to rejoice we hope the
Time is not far distant when we shall have done with them all and if you have
A word of comfort or consolation we shuld be verey glad to receve it
And we wish you to right to us when you have an opertunity
We send our love to you and your wife and brother Hedlock and brother ward
We have send the cap and the border
So no more at pressent from yours in the new and everlasting covnant
Direct to Mis Mary an Emmett hold hall Clithero Maryan Emmett and Mary Dougles
Dear brother in christ i now take up my pen to right to you hoping to find
you in good health as it leaves me at pressent since you left us we boath have and maney
Temptation and if we were to give way to them we soon shuld be over come i thing a great
Deal of wat you said to me while you where hear at maney times i feel temted almost
To give way the lord has hether too brought us we still feel to rejoice we hope the
Time is not far distant when we shall have done with them all and if you have
A word of comfort or consolation we shuld be verey glad to receve it
And we wish you to right to us when you have an opertunity
We send our love to you and your wife and brother Hedlock and brother Ward
We have send the cap and the border
So no more at pressent from yours in the new and everlasting covnant
Direct to Mrs Mary an Emmett hold hall Clithero Maryan Emmett and
Mary Dougles
"Letter from Maryan Emmett and Mary Douglas, 23 June 1845," p. 1, The Wilford Woodruff Papers, accessed April 18, 2024, https://wilfordwoodruffpapers.org/p/7Lg1