expects to take me back in a week or ten
days. It was said to Adam it was
not good to be alone. I have been alone
a great deal since I have been a married
man, and for the last two years I have
not been with any of my family but very
little, with the exception of riding with Emma and her family 200 miles to Ashley,
and since I last wrote you I have been
having some very poor turns of what is
called Bright's disease, or kidney disease,
the worst I have every had. In one instance
I became almost blind, speechless, and had
loss of memory for half an hour. My senses
then all returned. I was very weary
at the time, having travelled about
40 miles that day. Notwithstanding
this, my vital health is good. I have
lost considerable flesh this season. I
thought I had better have one of my wives
spend the winter with me and nurse me.
I have travelled 1000 miles since the first of
June in lumber wagons, though I had
a spring seat the last 350 miles. I am
in Salt Lake County. I do not pretend to
go to the houses of any of my families.
Very few know that I am in the county.
The fewer who know of our whereabouts the
expects to take me back in a week or ten
days. It was said to Adam it was
not good to be alone. I have been alone
a great deal since I have been a married
man, and for the last two years I have
not been with any of my family but very
little, with the exception of riding with
Emma and her family 200 miles to Ashley,
and since I last wrote you I have been
having some very poor turns of what is
called Bright's disease, or kidney disease,
the worst I have every had. In one instance
I became almost blind, speechless, and had
loss of memory for half an hour. My senses
then all returned. I was very weary
at the time, having travelled about
40 miles that day. Notwithstanding
this, my vital health is good. I have
lost considerable flesh this season. I
thought I had better have one of my wives
spend the winter with me and nurse me.
I have travelled 1000 miles since the first of
June in lumber wagons, though I had
a spring seat the last 350 miles. I am
in Salt Lake County. I do not pretend to
go to the houses of any of my families.
Very few know that I am in the county.
The fewer who know of our whereabouts the
"Letter to John Taylor and George Quayle Cannon, 23 September 1886," p. 2, The Wilford Woodruff Papers, accessed April 26, 2024, https://wilfordwoodruffpapers.org/p/5QQx