[upside-down text] these lines ^love^ us all comfortably well and hope
they will find you and yours the same please
to Except my kind and warmest love yourself
and give it to sister Woodruff and your family
and all the Saints that may enquire after
me I must draw my letter to A close by [end of upside-down text]
By steam ship
[sideways text] Leonard Hardy
Nov 27th
Arivd Dec 13th 1845
Mr Wilford Woodruff
Stanley Buildings Bath St
Liverpool England [end of sideways text]
wishing you all the Blessings of Heaven and Earth
and all the faithfull Saints please to write as quick
as possible by the first steam ship and you will
oblige your unworthy Broth I remain as ever
your Brothe in the New and Everlasting covenant
My Love to Brethren in the office
Leonard Hardy
1107.2 1575
9497
these Lines Love us all comfortably well and hope
they will find you and yours the same please
to Except my kind and warmest Love yourself
and give it to sister Woodruff and your family
and all the Saints that may enquire after
me I must draw my Letter to A close by
Mr Wilford Woodruff
Stanley Buildings Bath St
Liverpool
England
wishing you all the blessings of Heaven and Earth
and all the faithfull Saints please to write as quick
as possible by the first steam ship and you will
oblige your unworthy Brothr I remain as ever
your Brothr in the New and Everlasting covenant
My Love to Brethren in the office
"Letter from Leonard Wilford Hardy, 27 November 1845," p. 4, The Wilford Woodruff Papers, accessed April 19, 2024, https://wilfordwoodruffpapers.org/p/ZVP5