Dear Brother I
received a letter late Oct 25
from you we was glad to here that
you and Father and family ware all
well I allso received a letter the same
time from Brother Asmon stateing
that he is at Horatio Stanlley in Pen Green Coun west Beuer Dam
he will soon be on his way to Burlingto
I [Oey] there to spend the winter with
Sister Eunis and Webster as soon
ass you receive this letter I want you
to write imme[di]ately to brother Asm[on]
stateing to him that you wish buy
the request off your ould aged Father
that he wood come out and make
you avisit. I think you wood regela [regale]
his mind. he has plenty off means
to do with try to get him there
as to fruit the last time you saw
me in Con I cut my cions at the
falling off the leaves say the last off [illegible] I have a plenty off fruit born
from them now fruit is selling
from 9 to 10 shillings per barril
all they can get they are agoeing
to NY my golden sweets fetch
3 shils for bushels in the orchard
50 cts to carra way you send a reques
buy the best off your Brethren
that are a ggoing out this winter to
let all kinds off fruite cions from
the time the leaves fall till the leaves
begin sto smell or leave howefer
the best time to cut cions is in the
winter seasons cut your cions from
the top off the trees last years gro
you get better [barres] make a box
to plase them in lay alaying
off [morse] from ould layes in the [morals] in the bottom off your
box then a laying off cions so on
untill your box is full then nail
it up bore some guimblets [gimlets] holes
in the box so as to let are in so the
that they will not mould
Dear Brother I
received a letter late Oct 25
from you we was glad to here that
you and Father and family ware all
well I allso received a letter the same
time from Brother Asmon stateing
that he is at Horatio Stanlley in
Pen Green Coun west Beuer Dam
he will soon be on his way to Burlingto
I Oey there to spend the winter with
Sister Eunis and Webster as soon
ass you receive this letter I want you
to write immediately to brother Asmon
stateing to him that you wish buy
the request off your ould aged Father
that he wood come out and make
you avisit. I think you wood regale
his mind. he has plenty off means
to do with try to get him there
as to fruit the last time you saw
me in Con I cut my cions at the
falling off the leaves say the last off
Name I have a plenty off fruit born
from them now fruit is selling
from 9 to 10 shillings per barril
all they can get they are agoeing
to NY my golden sweets fetch
3 shils for bushels in the orchard
50 cts to carra way you send a reques
buy the best off your Brethren
that are a ggoing out this winter to
let all kinds off fruite cions from
the time the leaves fall till the leaves
beginto smell or leave howefer
the best time to cut cions is in the
winter seasons cut your cions from
the top off the trees last years gro
you get better barres make a box
to plase them in lay alaying
off morse from ould layes in the
morals in the bottom off your
box then a laying off cions so on
untill your box is full then nail
it up bore some gimlets holes
in the box so as to let are in so the
that they will not mould
"Letter from Ozem Thompson Woodruff, 26 October 1851," p. 1, The Wilford Woodruff Papers, accessed March 29, 2024, https://wilfordwoodruffpapers.org/p/vjDn