As fatherCand Mr. Moulton has filled the first page
of this sheet I sit down (at the little table in the north chamber where you used
to write so much when at father) to tell you a little about matters with me
and our little Willford Owen,—my health is good and his is better than it
ever has been before, he seames to have got quite well of the ague and grows finely
I suppose you ^will^ have learned before this reaches you that I am Scarborough
as I wrote you while in N.Y. at brother Ilus’s. It was a good opportunity for
me to come home and I hope you have no objections to my improveing it, and
spending the winter with my friends.
I have now^t^ heard from you since the
8th of last july untill verry lately when a mail brought me a letter from sister Kimball with one from you enclosed in it dated july 19th and one for father dated London Nov. 9th. I was truly glad to see them it was quite pleaseing to me to learn
that you was thinking of comeing home in the spring and of your health and
prosperity. Please tell me in your next letter what time you think of starting
for America. Your letters contained much information. I learned by fathers
that you had heared of the death of our dear child, I find that time or dis-
tance does not diminish my affection, for her—when I went to Commerce
I did not forget to visit her grave and strew it with flowers or leaves or something
that would please her when living—sister Kimball mentioned some things
you sent designed for her and shall I not say O! that she was liveing that
she might enjoy them and we enjoy her little prattles and society even when you
return, but I forbarre. Brother Turley had not arrived when when we left Montrose but has since and sister Kimball ^says he^ has brought me many presents and
some for the children a cap for Willford 2 dress patterns the china box you men-
tioned in your letter to father, 2 china pitchers 5 sovereigns in the box and and & two sovereigns in 2 letters and one halfe one in another she conclude by the sixe
of them, she had not opened them and other things to numerous to mention
she has them in her care and will no doubt keep them safe untill my our return
she is a good woman and a sister that I love and respect—please give my respects
to brother Kimball if he is with you. Sister Sarah Milliken wrote some
in sister Kimballs letter,—she says the steambaoat Nauvoo, returned there the last of
My Dear Willford
As fatherand Mr. Moulton has filled the first page
of this sheet I sit down (at the little table in the north chamber where you used
to write so much when at father) to tell you a little about matters with me
and our little Willford Owen,—my health is good and his is better than it
ever has been before, he seames to have got quite well of the ague and grows finely
I suppose you will have learned before this reaches you that I am Scarborough
as I wrote you while in N.Y. at brother Ilus’s. It was a good opportunity for
me to come home and I hope you have no objections to my improveing it, and
spending the winter with my friends.
I have not heard from you since the
8th of last july untill verry lately when a mail brought me a letter from sister
Kimball with one from you enclosed in it dated july 19th and one for father dated
London Nov. 9th. I was truly glad to see them it was quite pleaseing to me to learn
that you was thinking of comeing home in the spring and of your health and
prosperity. Please tell me in your next letter what time you think of starting
for America. Your letters contained much information. I learned by fathers
that you had heared of the death of our dear child, I find that time or distance does not diminish my affection, for her—when I went to Commerce
I did not forget to visit her grave and strew it with flowers or leaves or something
that would please her when living—sister Kimball mentioned some things
you sent designed for her and shall I not say O! that she was liveing that
she might enjoy them and we enjoy her little prattles and society even when you
return, but I forbarre. Brother Turley had not arrived when when we left
Montrose but has since and sister Kimball says he has brought me many presents and
some for the children a cap for Willford 2 dress patterns the china box you mentioned in your letter to father, 2 china pitchers 5 sovereigns in the box and and
two sovereigns in 2 letters and one halfe one in another she conclude by the sixe
of them, she had not opened them and other things to numerous to mention
she has them in her care and will no doubt keep them safe untill our return
she is a good woman and a sister that I love and respect—please give my respects
to brother Kimball if he is with you. Sister Sarah Milliken wrote some
in sister Kimballs letter,—she says the steamboat Nauvoo, returned there the last of
"Letter from Phebe Whittemore Carter Woodruff, 10 January 1841," p. 2, The Wilford Woodruff Papers, accessed May 14, 2024, https://wilfordwoodruffpapers.org/p/yrog