Paris Henry County Tenn 11th Dec 183- Brother Asahel. H. Woodruff. Honor.d Sir Having Some leasure time amid the Multiplicity of business, I concluded to appr[o]priate A portion of it in writing to you 1st ly I would inform you that I receieved your letter under Date of Sept 9th 1835 & I esteemed ^it^ a great pleasur[e] once more to read from your pen & hear from you. You remarked their was some chanc[e] of your visiting Tenn" or Paris I never more desired An ...

You remarked that if you was expecting A letter from Brother Azmon I should be pleased to have you write to me from time to time while I ame here & should you do so give me the news from Brother Azmon & his family & our Parents or any other friends that you should hear from. I have not herd from Brother Azmon (except a few words from Mother) since I left Liberty, Mo. Brother Azmon has much changed his religious principles since I saw & left him what ...

Wilford Woodruff Dec 11th 1835 Let Asahel look at this flood of words 25 Mr Asahel H Woodruff Cincinnati Ohio. ^136 yrs old ^ [sideways text] Brother Asahel excuse the corsness of my paper & writing. Also pardon me for not paying the postage I am freequently are without purs or scrip as is now the case I have many things I would like to say had I room & tim[e] I view it to be a momentious day & interesting period & age of the world in which we live what ...

I made mention to you respecting the Church in Cincinnati I have since learned that that Church principly had mo[ved] to Missouri. But as I feel a great interest for your prosperyts [prosperity] Salvation & Eternal interest of all my relatives I wish you would read the Messenger & Advocate the paper published at Kirtland Ohio inasmuch as you have time & opportunity by that you will in some degree have if a chance of investigating the subject. I send our Parents the paper Brother