Richland Jan 21 1853 Dear Brother and Father I received your last letters and was glad to here that you are all well. Ms. [D] Electta Woodruff was confined [Hous] 28 she has a daughter hir healthe iss very poor in concequence off hir cile and stomack itis the liver comp hir cile smells bad we have 3 livein children one buoy and 2 girls laste summer was the dryest ever know laste Sept the grasshoppers destro moste ...

afew days agoe on Salmon River one day we coat 100 pounds the next day 60 they were pickerel in consequence I galled and frose my feet and ame lame inn the house all own to my freaseing them in my youth while liveing with Julius Hickcock inn Con I ow him and [sold grud] for it to this day and have reason to Andrew lives on the Walter Menter farm nere me they have one daughter ...

with little fish have a boeey at each end off the rope on the top off the water soasyou can find it as it respets Asmon he is aliveing at Scruple corlenoy he runs away with streange ides he has Just been to proclaim the last third Angels mesage he has maniaged his busness very poor. as it respets temporal affaris Ersa got aland warrent for his cervis in the florida war ^and^ revisited Florative Stand last Summer in Penn And started to locate him self in ...

I believe you can get cions from this cuntry in to your valey the nexte letter you write to me I want that Father should write a few lines in the Letter to me ^to remember him buy^ I wante your age and his age and his and Mothers ages iff you know what they are to Remember them buy there I sureparte here that your Peop on m a greate wealth in the mines there is aplase called Mormon Island I would like ...