I take pleasure once
more in writing you respecting the
condition of things in the Indian
Territory. Since I wrote you last
Elders Ashton and Woolley have
been verry sick, but have recouver-
ed and are out traveling again.
I have urged upon them the neces-
sity of reporting at once their con
dition, they neglected it for some
time concequently I have not
been able to write you as soon
a[s] I should like to have done.
Elder Smith now in charge has
been away Eighteen months, he
is becoming somewhat delicate