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
as we have work for our Outfit
now and prospects for work the
most of the winter and spring
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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 could report
whenever he does get ready to
go. J. F. S.