San Bernardino March 7th [18]57 Elder Wilford Woodruff, Dear Brother Yours of the 4th Feb came to hand and was welcome. This leaves me as I hope it may find you and yours well, as is the case with the Saints Generaly. The parcel of F[r]uit cutings you received were furnished by Br. Dodge, the Strawberries that were sent were known to be as you state of the unproductive class But they were the only ones he had that lived of what he brought with him, and he sent them supposeing that ...

[sideways text] A Lyman March 7th 1857 [end of sideways text]