Historian's Office, Great Salt Lake City, June 30th, 1856. Editor of the Mormon, Sir, The mail from the east due here towards the last of May arrived here on the 4th inst, and contained 44 letters for this Territory; whereas our friend Leonard I. Smith was at Independence (on his way home from the Cape of Good Hope) when the mail started, and was told by the clerk there that he had put up from five to ten thousand letters for

We have been over to the Public Works, and find they are casting moulds to run pig lead into from the furnace. I am spending most of my time in this office compiling the history of the last days of Joseph and Hyrum. The weather has been very dry and warm for the last few weeks. The people are generally enjoying good health. Two new boats have been taken to the ferry at Bear River, and there is a ferry newly started on the ...