Pret Wilford Woodruff
Esq. Dear Bro With Plesure I take the opertunity of
droping you a few lines
to informe you that
My Helth is improved
now So that I can go
Back and fill My Mision
which I was Reliesed from
on the acount of sickness
and Returned home last novem-
ber and since I Have Recovered
from my iliness I desire to
Return and finish my labors
and stay until the Prestood
has sed a nuff For I Realiese
that the Harvest is fully
Ripe and the Laborers air
few and now is the time for mee
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Wm D. Elder
Feb. 8 [18]97.
to thrust in my sycle and
Reap the Harvest while it
is in full Blume I will try
and Bee Redy to start Back
By the first of May if I
posibley can By that time I
will have my crop in and
things shaped so that I can
Go again providing that I can
Raise the means to pay my fair
down thair Please ancer this
Rite a way so that I will
Know whether to prepair to
Go or not I Rote to Elder George Reunelds and sent my
Reliece some time ago and
Requested him to Reporte the [sideways text] same [end of sideways text]
and send the money that was to
Bee Refunded on our Return But
Have had no answer yet please
Remit Soon your Bro in the Gospel