[sideways text] W. Woodruff. St George June 243 [18]85 [end of sideways text] June 16, [18]85 President John Taylor, Dear Brother, I feel like writing a few lines to you this morning. I have felt for a few days like breaking out of my prison house some here in St George. I met in council with E. Snow and the presidency of the St George stake, on friday night. I felt a desire to attend the quarterly conference and con[si]der- ded to do so, but as the ...

with Brother Snow and others. I had no conversation with him They put up with Brother Snow, but I was informed they got [to] church the friday night they came in, they were not able to attend conference on Saturday. Brother Snow seems to think with some caution I would be safe in Salt Lake City, and He thought the Twelve felt the same. He seems to think the Courts & Marshals here got so far along without the Church records that they find they do not need them. That ...