Great Salt Lake City June 1st 1857 Brother Thompson Dear Sir The Eastern Mail has finally arrived on the 29. My century 4 waggon loads of mail matter it brought me 2 Letters from you which I was glad to get One was Dated Nov 1855 the other Nov 1856 Just a year apart, & this is about as regular as we get letters both contain much information on the Fruit Ra[is]ing & you say you have sent me some grafts but they have not come with the mail I would have ...

it also killed the ^yay^ grape shotts but by we pulling out again if everything is prerpair for a fruitful season. we have a very beautiful county & enjoy peace but we hear that all is continuing [hard] in the State against us I know that all the world Votes in with a people Hatread & would annihilate us all had they the power If we were as wicked as the world is their would not be any trouble about us but here we are bulding up the Kingdom of God & are preaching ...