Your vary
Kind interesting Letter of March 31 is before
me and I have read it with much interest
and I was vary glad to get it for not hearing
from you I did not know but I had offended
you in my joaking manner aboutreading
But as Porter says it was all wheat. I ment No
Evil I was truly thankful to learn that you
had got better I hope you will Enjoy good
health My health is still quite good at
present Like yourself I had a wife with me
3 months otherwise I live a Bachelors Life
I am mostly occupying a room on the ground
floor 12 foot square, 2 doors, 3 windows, carpetfloor, walls papered fireplace, plenty of wood good bed wire Matress,
sleep Well Enough to eat & wear, water rather poor
Plenty of kind friends, Lone town, 2 miles from
any other, plenty of Experienced Row a boat in a pond
ketch clubfish. I read & write some of the time a doz
Letters in a day I had a familymeeting on Sunday whare I stay partook of the Sacrament ordained one Elder
1 Priest & 1 Teacher There was FathersMothers 5 sons &
2 daughterspresent At the close of the Meeting I rode to
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Rec'd May 25, 1887
Ans'd May 27, 1887 end of sideways text
Your vary
kind interesting Letter of March 31 is before
me and I have read it with much interest
and I was vary glad to get it for not hearing
from you I did not know but I had offended
you in my joaking manner aboutreading
But as Porter says it was all wheat. I ment No
Evil I was truly thankful to learn that you
had got better I hope you will Enjoy good
health My health is still quite good at
present Like yourself I had a wife with me
3 months otherwise I live a Bachelors Life
I am moslly occupying a room on the ground
floor 12 foot square, 2 doors, 3 windows, carpetfloor, walls
papered fireplace, plenty of wood good bed wire Matraes,
sleep Well Enough to eat & wear, water rather poor
Plenty of kind friends, Lone Towne, 2 miles from
any other plenty of Experience row a boat in a pond
hatch Clubfish. I read & wrote some of the time a dozen
Letters in a day I had a familymeeting on Sundaywhare I stop partook of the Sacrament ordained one Elder
1 Priest & 1 Teacher There was Fathers Mothers 5 sons &
2 daughterspresent At the close of the Meeting I rode to