Zillah Washington Nov 28th /93 President Wilford Woodruff Salt Lake City Dear Brother Your notification of 20th inst is to hand in reply will say I would have ben pleased if I could of said yes I will go and fullfill the mission to the best of my ability but my financial circumstances are such that I couldent leave at present without loosing what I have worked for for a good many years. I am now 800 miles from home my Famley with me was calculating to stay here all winter ...

this has ben a very dull season for my business and have ben unable to meet my obligations I don't see how I could possibly arrange my affairs to ^go^ on so short a notice but am willing to go in the near future providing that would do for I realise that would be the best paying work I could do Hopeing to hear from you soon I remain Your Brother in the Gospel E J Hunt Wm L Skidmore Bp See if by next Apr. Con. he can be ready, and if not he ...

E. J. Hunt Nov. 25 [18]93