Phebe Please kiss little Sarah &
Willford for me I dream of
being with you occasioally I
look forward with great antic-
ipation & happiness when I
can once more embrace my
Dear Wife & chilidren in my
arms whare I can spend a little
season with them even before
the coming of christ but that
joy is highened to a greater degree
when I think of reigning with
Phebe & the children which God
will give us for one thousendend
years whare our love & affe-
ction will be increased to as
much greater degree then
any thing known in this life as
our light & glory will be
above what we now enjoy &
then to fully perfect the happiness
of my soul to enjoy an Eternity
in the celestial kingdom of God
with my wife & children to
part no more forever & not
ownly to fully bask in the greetness [greatness]
of the glory of God but to enjoy evry
sentiment of the fulness of affection
& love towards a bosom friend
having evry desire of the soul fully
satisfied to the highest state of
felicity that can possibly vibrate
the Immortal Breast towards
one that is bone of our bone &
flesh of our flesh. O Eternal
rest happiness & felicity I long
for thee. but I will wait
patiently for thy reproach for thou
art nigh the door

Willfodrd

Willford

Please not Expose this peace of writing

when this China Box was first made
the names were spelt wrong it was spelt
Wood Willeard & Pheab
Willeard & Pheab Woodrooff. I immedia
tely sent back to the workman & gave
him evry word distinctly & told him to
write it correctly when it war returned
one letter to much in your name I was

sorry about it but could not help it
for evry time a letter was changed it
had to go thrrugh another fireing &
so I had to let it go

[sideways text] Mrs. Phebe W. Woodruff
Montrose Lee county
Iowa Teritory
United States

To be opened by none but Mrs Woodruff [end of sideways text]

Willford Woodruff July 16^th
Stoke upon Trent England 1840

Phebe Please kiss little Sarah & Willford for me I dream of being with you occasioally I look forward with great anticipation & happiness when I can once more embrace my Dear Wife & children in my arms whare I can spend a little season with them even before the coming of christ but that joy is highened to a greater degree when I think of reigning with Phebe & the children which God will give us for one thousendend years whare our love & affection will be increased to as much greater degree then any thing known in this life as our light & glory will be above what we now enjoy & then to fully perfect the happiness of my soul to enjoy an Eternity in the celestial kingdom of God with my wife & children to part no more forever & not ownly to fully bask in the greatness of the glory of God but to enjoy evry sentiment of the fulness of affection & love towards a bosom friend having evry desire of the soul fully satisfied to the highest state of felicity that can possibly vibrate the Immortal Breast towards one that is bone of our bone & flesh of our flesh. O Eternal rest happiness & felicity I long for thee. but I will wait patiently for thy reproach for thou art nigh the door

Willford

Please not Expose this peace of writing

when this China Box was first made the names were spelt wrong it was spelt Willeard & Pheab Woodrooff. I immedia tely sent back to the workman & gave him evry word distinctly & told him to write it correctly when it war returned one letter to much in your name I was

sorry about it but could not help it for evry time a letter was changed it had to go thrrugh another fireing & so I had to let it go

sideways text Mrs. Phebe W. Woodruff Montrose Lee county Iowa Teritory United States

To be opened by none but Mrs Woodruff end of sideways text

Willford Woodruff July 16th Stoke upon Trent England 1840