Farmington, Hartford, county Connecticut, in company with Aphek & Azubah Woodruff in the front room of a house built upon the bank of the farmington river which room is decorated by historical charts, Atlass, portraits, paintings, &c &c whare Aphek Woodruff & his family have spent many of his former years which have gone gone forever JULY 7th 1837 Asahel H. Woodruff. Beloved & Affectionate Brother It is under peculiar circumstances & amid peculiar feelings that I take up my pen to once more address ...

I took the stage in Canaan to visit Avon July 5th I made a short stop in New hartford shook hands with Richard B Cowles & past on I arived at Woodford tavern & once more trod the soil of Avon. I spent the night at aunt Wheelers I saw Daniel, & Luther, I went over to Nod to see the friends there Daniel Wheeler has had a hard time of it in the whaleing line, he was broot ...

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is progressing rapidly in the earth. I want to say a few words to you about the cause I am engaged in & the course I am persuing. I am sensible we ought to be care- ful what we put on paper & send abroad & I have at times thought I was not sufficiently careful upon this subject, lest even friends draw wrong views & conceptions from my writings & to save any thing of this nature even from your mind & wish here to make a remark. ie. since my first conncetion with the Latter ...

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Mr Asahel H Woodruff Terre Haute Indiana [stamp] [FARMINGTON] JUL 8 ^25^ Wilford July 7th 1837