I received
your last letter some time ago also one from Owen, I supose you have heard from Henry that
we have had no mail lately as the road has
been blocked with snow between here & and Price
They have sent the Soldiers out to open the
road. Nellie brought down Amy's & Phebe's
Valentines. She got them with hers, but she
say's there is some yet that she never got
one for her and one for Bell & Sylvia
about the time they came here the young man
that tended the Post Office was sick, they had
another young man tend the Office for a couple of
Weeks and he did not seem to understand
the buisness much. I did not get my News
Papers for nearly two weeks until the other P.M.
came and straightened out the Office then I
got them all at once. I am getting fat
since I got out of bed, but my leg does
not seem to gain strength very fast I
cannot get around any better non it now than
written in sideways text David P WoodruffMarch 8, 1891Answered March 16 1891
DP, Patriarchal
Blessing end of sideways text
I received
your last letter some time ago also one from
Owen, I supose you have heard from Henry that
we have had no mail lately as the road has
been blocked with snow between here & and Price
They have sent the Soldiers out to open the
road. Nellie brought down Amy's & Phebe's
Valentines. She got them with hers, but she
say's there is some yet that she never got
one for her and one for Bell & Sylvia
about the time they came here the young man
that tended the Post Office was sick, they had
another young man tend the Office for a couple of
Weeks and he did not seem to understand
the buisness much. I did not get my News
Papers for nearly two weeks until the other P.M.
came and straightened out the Office then I
got them all at once. I am getting fat
since I got out of bed, but my leg does
not seem to gain strength very fast I
cannot get around any betteron it now than
"Letter from David Patten Woodruff, 8 March 1891," p. 1, The Wilford Woodruff Papers, accessed March 29, 2024, https://wilfordwoodruffpapers.org/p/K8LR